Year: 1876

the work for US. For pursuing this course


we received, and we expected to receive


the i'll will of those who had committed


the off,nce against the Democratic


party. However painful the task


We had no other course to pursue


and conscious of having discharged g


duty to ourselves and to the party We


have no regrets, except those occssioned


by tho disturbance of personal relations


Whenever the. time shall come that


we cannot exercise a manly indepen'
dence in performing what we know to be
plain duty, however painful its dis
charge may be, then we are willing to


lay down the pen. But as long as we


WELD it, we expect TO do it in the interest
OF truth and right, chewing to the line, let
the chips fall where they may" Having
no axes to grind and no vsulting ambi-
tions to lead US into indiscretions we
feel that we can adopt the trite express y
ion cf M. CLAY's 1--WE would rather be
right than president" even in this CEN
tennial year. We would like to submit
to cur friend KIMBERLY, or any one
else of his way of thinking, which more
nearly approaches bolter or disorgsn-
izes, he who follows in the long e;tab.
lished path of party discipline and
usage, or he who deviates from it?
Under these circumstances we asked the
County Executive Committee to proceed
al once to rectify the mistake or event of
their failure to do 80, for the individual
members Of the party to undertake the
work of publication. The Chairman OF
the committee informed US that he did
not think he had the power to issue q
call without instructions from his COM
mittee, in which view wa concurred.
and he did not think tnat he
could get the committee together
in time to take prompt action. Then
it was that number of promin ent
and respectable gentlemen issued call
for meeting on Friday, to take such ac-
lion q. may be- necessary. 1t is true that
q question might arise as to the p-wer OF
a conven tion thus called to appoint del
egaIion, unless it be in that sovereign
power which always rests with people
to redress wrong when there is no pre-
scribed mode of doing it otherwise. How
ever, the meeting is only called to take
such action as may be necessary, and it
will be for the meeting to determine what
that action shall be. 1t may be found
upon examining into the matter, or may
not, that the view taken by Mr.. BAKER
in his card that resolution admitting all
Democrats as delegates, WAS passed by
Saturdays convention, although tie chaif
decided otherwise. and present this
claim to the Convention as ground of ad-
mittance. We have no suggestions to
make, but will only say that we
desire to see harmony restored to
the party and we hope that harmonious
action may be agreed upon. Yet we are
free to say that even harmony, however
desirable 1t may be, is not to be obtained
at sacriic OF principle and violation
of the established usages OF the party.
A false cry of bolter and disorgsnizer
from those who are themselves disorgan-
izers and who have nothing in common
with the Democratic party except to use
and abuse it for the sake of personal
preferment will not have the effect of
cowing Democrats who feel that
there is principle involved-Demo-
crsts who have worked for party sue
cess in days when the clouds were black
who feel the necessity for party orsani-
cation and discipline and who believe
that the success Of the party is essen
tlsl To the salvation of the country. We
simply desire to reason this matter
calmly Nd dispassionately, and we are
sorry that those who differ with US have
seen proper to indulge IN abuse and
vituperation, and. in order to create q
current of public opinion in their favor,
have resorted " the arts of the dema-
gogue in appealing to prejudice and seek
ing TO arouse q spirit of communism in
the oommani,y. We decane to descend
to the use Of such weapons. We have
endesvored to Be mild and yet consistent
in doing right We have not iudslged
IN personalities ts We might have done to
the detriment of others. We sink every
consideration Of this kind in looking
only to the public good, and TO the success
of the party. Let the consequences be
as they may we have the honest convic-
tions OF having discharged our duty, and
with these convictions We would prefer
to sink to the bottom of the seas than 10
float on false plank.


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