Year: 1870

party are ever and anon putting forth feelers


for Chase movement founded upon an
acceptance of the XIVth and XYth Amend


ments as fixed facts" By this insidious


scheme they hope to divide the Democracy.


If the people are not warned in time this
game viii prove successful, and with its sue


cess will como the overwhelming and final


collapse of the party of the Constitution. AS
the case stands, there is strong probability


that the moderate Republicans will have one
candidate in the field for President, and the
extreme Radicals another In such an event


it would be of the greatest Importance that
the Democracy should unite upon one lead
err and it is equally momentous that leader
shall not be polluted with the filth Of the
enemys camp.


In Georgia, we believe that the better
class of Republicans will strive to keep
power away from the Democracy by the
| trick of Conservative Reform, so-called
| Even as we write DIR. Bard is preparing an
"Open-rear" for his cabal. AS pertinent to
this subject, we quote from a leading article
in Capt. Bryants Georgia Republican:
He (Bard) proposes to command an army
of observation, ready to strike where he can
accomplish most for Georgia and the South
| We know that he is assisted by some Of the
ablest political leaders in the South If
| Butler and Morton, and the men who follow
them, shall rule the Republican, we believe
a Peoples Party" will be organized, and


that The True Georgian will be one of the
| organs OF the party. If wiser men, like
Grant, COlfax Edmunds, Hamlin, Trumbuli
Bingham, Logan, and the other able leaders
who entertain views similar to theirs, shall
| be permitted to control the party, the ''mod
crate Republicans" Of the South and of the
| country will again rally around General
Grant, and he will be tFiumphantly re elect
edto rule over the people of this great ma
| ton. If Butler and Morton are permitted to
control the party, it must be overwhelingly
defeated in the next Presidential campaign.
Singularly, the Georgia question is the ques-
| ton that WILL IN all human probability, de-
cided the fate of the Republican party in
the next Presidential Campaign.


Be it observed that there is an angry split
between the two wings of Radicalism, and
that the breach will no doubt widen into
actual hostility in 1872. To counteract the
conspiracy of the extremists, their wary
coadjutors, who are quite as dangerous,
propose to snare weakened Democrats
by the subterfuge of "People Ticket,
which, when stripped of its mask, stands
forth with imposture only paralelled by the
villainy of its more intrepid ally of the
same political creed. We would not give
pinch of snuff for any triumph of Demoera-
cy which involves surrender of principle;
and, of the two wings of Republicanism,
the ultras are not the most to be dreaded,
because, being open and above-board in
| their criminal intentions, they can be con-
fronted in a square fight on square issues,
and, If defeated, their defeat will be ire
mediable If the Democrats should not
triumph at this time, they will at least be
ever ready for another death-grapple, so
| long as they keep their standard mp and
their glorious principles emblazoned on It's
! folds. A lowering of that standard, an
obliteration of those principles, a base sur
render to and coalition with moderate
| Republieanism, under a new disguise, will
make them ignominious and forever impo-
| tent to redeem the land.


We counsel, therefore, that the National
Democracy be united and unsullied, and
that the Democracy of Georgia be as one
man in presenting a bold front to the com


mon enemy. Let them reject his alliance
in any shape that is dishOnorable. We
know there are many timid and craven
hearted among US who nurse their imagina
| tions with the vain chimera of "People's
Party" "a Conservative Reform Party" or


some other devisement of tho enemy. Let


these weak brethren correct their deIusion
| - L IL


about splitting the Democracy by these ex-


quisite tom fooleries is hallway deserter,


and however unconsciously or unpremedi-


tatedly, an enemy to his country and traitor


to the cause of civil liberty. Let's have no


more of this mischievOus jargon in our
ranks 1t is demoralizing and culpable.
| Let us rather form an unbroken and i'm
| pregnable phalanx, and, thus united, assault
the enemy whenever compelled to do so in
seIf-defense. The last words of Daniel


Webster, concerning political affairs, are as
true now as they were at the time Of utter


ance. Mr. T. G. Curtis gives the following


account of these memorable sentences of


that grand graniteman:


Calling me to his bedside by my Christian
name, he said "The Whig candidate will


not be elected You love your country, and
you think its welfare involved in Whig


success This is not so; but let me warn
you, as you love your country, to give no
counteuance to a sectional, geographical
party The Wings, after this election, will


break up, and upon the ruins of our party a
sectional party will arise The stability of


the Union will hereafter depend upon the


Democracy"


Upon the Democracy, indeed, depend the