Year: 1879

in this. / am simply for Grant because he presents
thing else. lie offers us peace and stability and
am for him. should never consent to support
Blaine or sherman or Hayes. II Grant will not make
| the race then am for Horatio Seymour, and q
straight out fight" Colonel Glenn was defeated for
| Congress because of his support of Greeley. He
says:-"As to the organization OF the Grant men l
am not sure how that will be brought about.
think the first movement will be to have meeting
tour. After wise speech two from Grant in the
south and on the southern question the movement
will organize itself"


Colonel George L. Fry, q young man with large
following, and lately member of the House. from
Atlanta, says that steps will be taken to organize
the democrats who favor the election of General
Grant into at least such shape that they can show
their strength understand each other and definitely
express their opinions. He is openly and earnestly
in favor of the movement and says that it will sweep
the South as soon as its purposes are announced
that Grant club of 1000 to 1000 democrats be
organized in Fulton county. Colonel Fry is an in
detatigable and successful worker and fine speaker
Captain Joseph Il. Burke. of the Gate City Guard,
| who has just returned from his trip through the
North says that the politicians would just stand
| affection and that Grant would be elected by a
virtually unanimous vote of the South. He says:-
in the smoke of war that closed fourteen
years ago and have now place for us
in history. by the complacsncy with which
we have stood defeat after defeat. The
man who will dispel these portentous clouds and
bring peace will get the people of the South The
man who do this and the only man is General
Grant. Ii he puts himself a platform of peace
to all the Union and the wiping out OF sectional
lines the business men of the South will support
him irrespective of conventional nominees and he
will carry many if not all of our States" Captain
Burke is not politician. but is man Of leisure and
capital, and withal q close observer of things.


United States Marshal Ftzsimmons expressed
himself astonished at the wonderful strength de-
veloped by the sentiment for Grant among all classes.
and said: :-"I have been approached very pointedly
this subject, and in connection with 1t the name
but prefer to say nothing for publication Just now.


have solicited investigation into my department
owing to certain charges made by special agent.
and wish to remain still that the investigation
| may be made squarely on its merits. have asked
for an investigation and want it, After that is over
| l will feel at liberty to talk.


+ The strongest Grant influence, perhaps. in Georgia
is Judge o. A. Lachune, one OF the most remarkable
! men in Georgia. He is thoroughly Independent in
politics. voting either way he peases He has had


democratic nomination for Congress since the war is
discussed the independent candidate for Gov
| Vice President on the ticket with Grant He is a
man of wealth. OF immense social popularity and is
| sort Of idol with the Irish He is a man OF great
brilliancy. having been the youngest Chief Justice
| that sat on the Supreme Bench OF Georgia, and
one of the most able he is very determined in the
effort TO for Grant the support OF the best
| people in the South. Judge Lacnune has always
opposed sectonalisn Of any sort. and since the war
has been an anti-State rights man. This Union."
| he says "is u nation. and all the compromises
| of the constitution have been rewritten with q
mailed hand. We want Grant because he can heal up
the wounds Of war; re-establish the Union and give
central power that will insure peace in all sec
tons Of the country and stability to all our insttu-
J tions. The South has been lued with opiates by
her leaders while her real interests have been sacr
feed. The people have walked up at last ana will
, mark ous a policy for themselves. They will no
longer submit to such criminal blunders as the late
! attempt or the House to starve the government
They will establish the rule that all men shall vote
as they please speak as they please and they will go
for Grant despite the entreaties commands of the
politicians. Judge Lochrane says that he has been
astounded at the strength developed by the Grant
movement among the democrats and feels sure that
| Grant carry Georgia against any man that is
| nominated by either party.


|


The leaders OF the democratic organization decline
to say anything all the subject Of politics. "l
| have nothing to say ut present." is the universal
| response they make when pressed for their views.
That they are very much discouraged cannot be
doubted. but they have not made up their minds as
to what the prospect is. They express surprise at
the strength and prevalence of the feeling OF Grant
ism that has taken hold of the people, but say that
they think much of it will pass after the stun
ming effect of the November elections has worn oil
ablest independent in the State. is opposed to the
| Grant movement. He says:-"I have been literally
amazed At the strength it .sias has developed ed
wrong There is no need for encouragement


provided the democrats have the nerve and the
country on patriotic platform The question o.


the rights OF the States has been issue since tn,
constitution was formed. 1t has been held by til,


best men of all sections that the States had SOW
| creipn rights but it is unfortunate for the Soutl
that she has presented the only revolutionary rene


dies ever offered for the invasion OF those rights


The three remedies-and the only thrce-ever
offered against centralism wero:-First. nullinca
|


ing the supplies. Nullifcation was killed by
Jackson. secession by the war; and coercion
IN eject SS V to s resident % Hayes. in tho % lat.
session:-'We will either starve you into coer


cion or force you into revolution. l con con
either nullihcation or secession. and the Northern
people regarded it, Secession required the de-
lberate action OF States. while the Blackburn policy


just as only the action Of
caucus. Now il We distinctly repudiate that policy


nominate Mr. Bavard. who opposed 1t; pledge our
| selv
peacoably settled by the Supreme Court or ut the
polls and stand for honest money and free ballot


we carry the country. 1t is not State rights
that the North afraid Of. 1t is the remedies that


we propose for violation Of our construction OF
burn more than they do U. s. Grant. even with the
| third term attachment. They prefer C@sarism to
by the constitution, the Union and the enforcement
OF the laws, we can elect him."


REpUBLIcANs PUZZLED.


The republican leaders are puzzled at the strange
turn things have taken, and do not know how to
meet 1t. They seem to understand that II . non.
partisan President is elected the Southern democrats
will get the Offices They say that Sherman will
beat Grant for the nomination in the South, but
they do not believe this. Grant will carry the
publican party in the south like whirlwind, and
| all opinions other than this are the batteries OF
Office holders for Sherman's ear. If Grant signifies
his Willingness to take the nomination he will get
| every delegation from the south.


have given above the general resume of the sit ua-
tion in this State. might I'LL columns with similar
expressions for Grant. but believe have expressed
every phase OF the movement in one tho other of
the talks given above. or course cannot estimate
its real strength. 1t may pass away rapidly it
| has grown. 1 can only say that it has been
| thus far literally phenomenal IN its opinions
and universality far IL can be tested. One of
the chief causes of its ndeterminate nature is the
| uncertainty as 70 Grants own purpose. IL he we're
| to declare that he would take the Presidency II
elected on broad platform OF peace. reconciliation
and anti-sectionasm, there is no doubt that fol-
| lowing would at once be organized from among
democrats that would give him Southern States
II on this ticket Mr. A. II. stephens. whose admira-
| ton for General Grant is enthusiastic could be
ttatf and
| nomination, that ticket would carry Georgia-to say
nothing the other Southern States. The press of
the has generally taken sides against this Grant
boom. The Atlanta Constitution that 1t is pos
sbc probable that the South will take Grant.
This paper is bit ouraged to national politics
and advises the Southern people to turn their atten
ton politics to national development every
political step IL takes IL misconstrued. The Augusta
has heard OF the movement. but OPP
| poses it.. The people cheerful enough the
| proposed change Of front. One man said. ''The
south ought join the republican party just as the