Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-04
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. II. FELTON,

ton and popular sovereignty was the battle
cry of the $685. writes E. A. Nisbet. Said
he in his letter: who does not remember
with what fervid zeal and indignant enthu-
siasm the leaders in congress repealed the
very position that disintegrated the conven-
ton at Charleston. My opinion is that if
there are two Democratic nominations the
black Republican ticket will be elected etc.
There, as before said, were three tickets
placed in the field, and there was absolutely
no chance for either of the three to win the
prize While these letters were being SCAT
tered over the Southern States in May, 1850.
any sane person could agree with Mr.. Nisbet
as to defeat If there had been small
majority for Mr.. Lincoln, instead of the big
majority he received it would have been the
same thing. (Witness the Hayes Tilden elec-
tion in November, 1850 Mr.. Tilden was "a
Democratic nominee, and had big majority
vote by election returns, and he lacked only
one electoral vote to be counted in, and yet
it required all the electoral votes in Floridas
South Carolina and Louisiana to elect Gem
eral Hayes by one majority. f9w
When the Charleston convention disband-
ed after "a stormy session, the Southern lead
ers failed to understand that there was only
one chance to succeed in the 1850 election,
and that chance lay in solid union of all
Democratic States north and south, upon
single ticket. Mr. Nisbet introduced the
secession resolution which carried Georgia
out of the union in January, 1851. Mr..
Yancey carried out of the Charleston con-
vention the delegates from Texas, Mississippi
and Alabama, in April, 1860. 1t would seem
that the determination to leave the old union
was well developed when the Charleston con-
vention broke up in row. Coming events
cast their shadows etc.
AS I remember now that presidential CAM
paign of 1850 (and it occurred sixty-three
years ago), the futile endeavor was central
lied upon the election of all the three tickets
here named instead of concentrating all ef-
forts to the success of one of the three tickets.
Ex-Governor H. " Johnson explained the
situation more clearly than all the others.
But he had small influence when the State
convention met in Milledgeville in January,
1861
Mr.. Stephens was loyal to the Douglas
and Johnson ticket, and made an effort to
aid the union men who followed Johnson and
his views The storm of disunion had been
growing wilder all the time, and l am COM
PEELED to conclude we lost the whole business
by the clamor for three tickets in the spring
Of 1860.
1 found ALSO in my late search a we'll
preserved copy of Hon. Linton StephenGI
speech before the General Assembly of Geor-
ga, late in February, 1865. The sessions
were held in Macon because in Shermans
march to the sea the latter had made Mil
ledgeville suffer to a serious extent.
We were refugees within four miles OF the
city of Macon at that time. Just few weeks
before President Davis had made speech
before the same body at the same place. Butte
more anon. This is vertable history, and
the people of Georgia know but little con-
corning that era of our troubles. {