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• worthy, to the exclu ion of the selfish and designing. If, however, the latter description of men, by any corrupt machinations, hould pre- vail with the Caucus to place them in nomination, to the manifest dis- satisfaction and disgust of the party-the party would be under no obligation to submit to such treachery and infidelity to their interest, but should proceed to place before the public, cruididates worthy of confidence. Thi seems to me to be the most democratic, and of con- sequence the least objectionable organization of a caucus. And if either or both of the great political parties of this tate shall find it nece nry to adopt-the system, they will have to do it upon some such republican plan; otherwise the people, deprived of the freedom of choosing their own servant , will find themselves in a hort time, ruled by clubs and plotting cabals, in which ambition, cupidity and revenge will be the governing principles. row I wish my fellow-citizens to bear in mind, that the Caucus in Iilledgeville was not such an one as above described. 1ror was it one of their ordering. 'l'he gentlemen composing the body were 1iever deputed to the task of forming a ticket. I doubt 'whether there was a voter in the tate who believed that when he bestowed his suffrage for members to the Legi.lature, he was clotl1in1? them with power, not only of making laws, but also to determine who should and should not represent the State of Georgia in Con!!re s. And if such power was never designed to the conferred, let it not be usurped-let no one claim it, but leave the people free to ehoo e for themselves. They are fully competent to make wi e and judiciou selections-at least it is their privilege to please themselves, and who would restrict them in the exercise of a rightful prerogative T If the liberty of choosing their own representatives cannot be safely confided to their hands, let pol- iticians entertaining this opinion, take the nower f 1 ·on1 thrm and tran - fer it to the Legislature; but so long a it remains a constitutional rif!ht, how presumptuous in any one to attempt to steal it from thrm "' bully them out of it! That which no one dare attempt by open lei:ris- lation, should not be accomplished by a different kind of proce . Let no one therefore say, "true it is, that the people have the ri 17 ht of selecting their own members to Congress, but all those who vote at variance with the will of the Caucus shall be insulted and reproached; and the individual receiving their suffrages, hall be remembered only to be condemned.'' To a denunciation o ab nrd and prepo teron , I cannot suppose that the gentlemen who compo. ed the Caucus are willing to give utterance. It would place them in the unplea ant dilemma of proving-themselve to be more zealous than wise, or more d potic than just. Whoever may adopt uch a.· high-hand d course of conduct, with an expectation of thereby advancing 'the principles of freedom and the intere t of the country, will betray mind too contracted and uninformed for stat "men i and if any hall pur ne it from jealousy, revenge, or elfish ambition, their readine to acrifice ju. tice and the pnhlic weal to an ignoble pa sion, will effectually ex- clude them from the rank of patriot . From vhatcvcr pirit it may proceed, such denunciation cannot foil to have the good effect of awak- ening the people to the nece. sity of a clo c and mor tenacious ad- herence to the particular privilege endangered. Rvery effort of the
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