Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-02-10

copy of the Daily Chronicle and Consti-
nationalist of Augusta, Ca. of the LIST inst,
has come to hand containing an abstract of
speech delivered at Augusta on the evening
of Jan. 81, by DIR, FELTON,, private citizen of
Georgia, but a man evidently of good parts
and of local prominence. This speech is in
support of the Independent movement in
Georgia, and gives good idea of the princi-
pies which the Independents as opposed to
the Bourbon Democracy, uphold. In open
ing, Dr. FELTON, deprecated sectionalism, and
urged the recognition by the Independents of
the need of a broad nationalism. We cannot
prosper, the speaker said, until this sectional
bitterness is forever obliterated and this I'm
ion of States cemented in one common broth
erhood Il thank God" DIR. FELTON, continu-
ed, that slavery is abolished forever and
carpet baggerism driven out forever. There
should now be no sectionalism in this coun-
try-no flaming sword guarding our bounda-
ries, to drive back enterprising men and cap
ital for fear of incendiarism. We are one
people and have one purpose, from Maine to
California. No matter how many emigrants
may come here from over-crowded Europe,
they are swallowed up and naturalized, and
we are the same liberty loving people of Am
erica" These sentiments, the report says,
were received with great applause"
In defining 'Independentsm" the speaker
said: 1T means that the people, the multi
tude, the men of every class the laborers,
merchants and mechanics, should be placed
in charge of their own public affairs. That
the people are masters and not the slaves of
public officials that every candidate must be
passed upon by honesty and competency :;
that the people shall control the machinery
and not turn it over to experts or profession
al politicians, who apportion it out to their
obsequious friends and give their places of
power to those who go up humbly to the
polls and ratify their prearranged purposes. {"
Some hard raps were given the Bourbons
in connection with reference to their last
gubernatorial convention, following which
the speaker declared unequivocally for ga
free ballot and fair count" The report
quotes him as saying:
The ballot is not free when the employe
may be discharged by the employer lest he
vote not according to requirement it is not
free when bogus tickets are handed to igno-
Aaht heh ny hHOTu managers ana those sworn
managers throw out these tickets as illegal
1t is not free when the timid colored voter is
forced away, having in view the terrors of the
chain gang and the prison. wild cheers on
the colored side. 1t is not free when select
passage ways are given to some and denied
other white and colored men. Applause. I
1t is not free when the ballot box at midnight
is seen under the arm of a relative of the
Bourbon candidate, as it is carried through
the streets. In many counties election day is
carnival of fraud, [Cries of Fright ="
Right" The ballot box is the American
throne which gives law and liberty to the
most powerful people on this globe. ZAP
pause. Cursed be the hand that would de-
grade this independent throne for tricksters
and ringsters [Cheers, Come my friends,
and join this independent party and rescue
this old statefrom her political taskmasters.
Applause.
The man who made this speech declares
himself to be Jeifersonian Democrat
who has never voted any but a Democratic
ticket-and he is doubtless ready to fight the
Republicans to the bitter end but when o
man who talks like this in Georgia political
meeting, declaring at the same time for free
schools aud against the vicious and brutal
convict system Of the state, aud is applauded
70 the echo by an audience of the common