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made for a cessation of hostilities." And further, 

 resolved, that no confidence ought to be placed in 

 the professions of an organization that declared the 

 necessary protection of the polls from the assaults 

 of ruffians and traitors to be " a shameful violation 

 of the Constitution," which ought to be " held as 

 revolutionary and resisted," and that now seeks to 

 reinstate itself in power by nominating soldiers and 

 provost marshals, and passing resolutions of confi- 

 dence in a Republican administration. 



Resolved, That we have no theories to promulgate 

 in relation to the right of suffrage. But as a practi- 

 cal question we declare that so long as the grand 

 issues of the day are the maintenance of the Govern- 

 ment, the completed integrity of the Union, the 

 preservation of the national credit and the national 

 laith, and the extirpation of slavery, no test can be 

 made or encouraged which will admit to the elective 

 franchise rebel soldiers and traitorous politicians, 

 and at the same time will exclude loyal men of equal 

 intelligence, thousands of whom have borne arms 

 and shed their blood in the nation's defence, and 

 whose votes may be indispensable hereafter, as Pres- 

 ident Lincoln said, in his letter to Gov. Hahn, of 

 Louisiana, " to keep the jewel of liberty in the fam- 

 ily of freedom." Such tests cannot stand the scru- 

 tiny of the loyal American people. If incorporated 

 into the new constitutions of the Southern States, 

 Congress should rectify the abuse and maintain the 

 public faith toward the freedmen, while it provides 

 for the peace, solvency, and security of the country. 



The Democratic committee met at "Worcester, 

 on September 28th, and nominated for Gov- 

 ernor, Gen. Darius N. Couch. Among the res- 

 olutions adopted, were the following : 



Resolved, That the people regard the subordination 

 of military to civil rule, the restoration of the au- 

 thority of the courts, with trial by jury, and of the 

 writ of Jiabeas corpus, an economical administration 

 of the Government, and the recognition of the equal- 

 ity of the States, as essential to the peace and well- 

 being of the nation ; and all efforts to force any rule 

 of suffrage upon any State against the will of the 

 people thereof are subversive of the principles of our 

 Government. 



Resolved, That we recognize the obligations by 

 which the whole resources of the country are pledged 

 to the payment of the public debt; and that we be- 

 lieve the burden of the debt should be borne equally 

 by all classes of the people, and the whole property 

 of the country, real and personal, should be subject 

 to all needful regulations; but we do not believe 

 in a system of taxation which places the burden 

 of the debt upon the shoulders of the producing 

 classes. 



Resolved, That in order that the public debt may 

 more justly and easily be met, we earnestly desire 

 the speedy restoration of all the States to their proper 

 position in the Union, so that a standing army and 

 its expense may be avoided, and the industry of the 

 whole country have every advantage) and its wealth 

 thereby be rapidly increased. 



Resolved. That in the plan of President Johnson to 

 restore the States lately in rebellion to their proper 

 position in the Union, leaving each State to regulate 

 the question of suffrage for itself, "a power the peo- 

 ple of the several States comprising the Federal 

 Union have rightly exercised from the origin of the 

 Government to the present time," we recognize a 

 just appreciation of the Constitutional relations of 

 the several States to the Federal Government, and 

 that enlarged statesmanship which looks to the per- 

 manent peace and happiness of a great people ; and 

 .n the prosecution of that plan we pledge to him our 

 vigorous and hearty support. 



The election took place on November 6th, 

 with the following result for Governor : 



MoALLISTEE, MATTHEW H. 535 



A. n. Bullock, Republican 69,912 



D. N. Couch, Democrat 21,245 



Majority for Bullock 48,667 



The following was the result of the election 

 for members of the Legislature: 



Senate. House. Joint ballot. 



Republicans 89 221 260 



Democrats . 



Republican majority, 88 



202 



20 

 240 



An election was also held in the Sixth Con- 

 gressional district to fill a vacancy occasioned 

 by the resignation of D. W. Gooch, member 

 elect of the Thirty-ninth Congress. Gen. N. P. 

 Banks, Eepublican, was returned by 8,128 votes 

 to 1,988 for Thomas J. Greenwood, Democrat. 



MoALLISTER, Hon. MATTHEW HALL, an 

 American jurist and statesman, born in Savan- 

 nah, Geo., November 26, 1800, died at San 

 Francisco, Cal., December 19, 1865. He was 

 educated at Princeton College, New Jersey, 

 and bred to the law, in which profession for 

 three generations members of his family have 

 achieved distinction. In 1827 he received 

 from President John Quincy Adams the 

 appointment of United States District Attorney 

 for the State of Georgia, at a time when 

 energy and legal ability were requisite to 

 adjust the threatened difficulties, on account 

 of her Indian lands, between Georgia and the 

 General Government. This post had been pre- 

 viously held by his father, under the appoint- 

 ment of General Washington. For many 

 years Judge McAllister was a resident of Sa- 

 vannah, where he was distinguished as an able 

 lawyer and an influential political leader; in 

 the first capacity he evinced the generosity of 

 his heart by invariably refusing to plead 

 against the life of a fellow-creature, always 

 preferring at a sacrifice to support the cause of 

 the defence ; and in the latter capacity as a 

 politician, he was an unflinching advocate for 

 the Union. When, in 1832, the attempt was 

 made to engraft the doctrines of nullifica- 

 tion upon the policy of the South, he boldly 

 ranged himself with the defenders of the 

 Union and the Constitution, and in the heated 

 discussions of that period exhibited a breadth 

 of knowledge, a logical power, and a fervid 

 eloquence which soon marked him for a popu- 

 lar leader. He Avas for some years Mayor of 

 Savannah, and in that capacity won for him- 

 self an honorable renown for his maintenance 

 of the rights of the humble and lowly. An- 

 drew Marshall, a slave, but a man of extra- 

 ordinary talent, piety, and eloquence, was 

 the pastor of a colored Baptist Church in the 

 city, and as such was permitted by Mayor Mc- 

 Allister to exercise his calling, though prohib- 

 ited by a local law from doing so, and his right 

 to preach was defended by the Mayor before a 

 civil tribunal with such efiect that he was 

 never subsequently molested. For these deeds 

 of kindness the people of color in Savannah 

 were accustomed for years to pray publicly for 

 Mr. McAllister in their churches. At the ag& 



