The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-30 00:00:00

PROGRESS OF ELECTIOIVS.

At the Republican State Convention of Massa-
chusetts, held at Worcester on the 9th inst., it ap-
pears that the Lieutenant-Governor, William Claf-
lin, was unanimously nominated for Governor. Dr.

George B. Loring, of Salem, withdrew in a graceful

speech ; wherein he stated that, judging by the re-
ception extended to him, it was almost as well to be

a defeated as a successful candidate. There were

about 1,500 representatives at the meeting, one of
the largest ever held in the old Bay State, and it is
supposed that the candidate nominated at such a
meeting is certain of election. The lion. William
Claflin was proposed by General Butler, who in-
terrupted a motion for a committee to collect and
count the votes for Governor, and proposing this,
nomination as an amendment, it at once was carried
by acclamation. Judge Russell, of Boston, notni-
mated Cl)!. Joseph Tucker of Lenox as Lieutenant-
Governor. A delegate from Plymouth County nomi-
nated Whitney Griswold of Greenwich. The name
of Chas. A. Stevens of 'Ware was also mentioned.
On the first ballot there was no choice. After this
result had been announced the name of Charles A.
Stevens was withdrawn, and the Convention pro-
ceeded to a second ballot, with the following re-

sult :—•Whole number of votes cast, 1,210 ; neces-

nary for a choice, 606 ; Joseph Tucker had 622,
Whitney Griswold 574, C. A. Stevens 11, scatter-
ing 3. Colonel Tucker's nomination was made
unanimous, on the motion of Mr. Griswold. A
resolution was offered calling for Senator Sumner's
re-election to the United States Senate, and greeted

with loud cheering. These gentlemen were chosen
electors at large :—David Sears, Boston ; John H.
Clifford, New Bedford. The following resolutions

were adopted :
Resolved, That the Republicans of Massachusetts
heartily approve the platform adopted by the Republican
party of the nation at Chicago, and pledge their earnest
support to the election of Ulysses S. Grant and Sehuyler
Colfax as essential to the peace, safety, and honour of the
country.
Reolved, That the rights of the loyal citizens of the
South, won by war and secured by national legislation,
shall be maintained.
Resolved, That we heartily approve the system of re-
construction established by the law-making power of the
nation, as wise and humane, and as demanding no niore
than the security and good faith of the country require.
Resolved, That we repudiate the position of the Demo-
cratic party recently and authoritatively taken, which has
resuscitated the Rebellion, and proposes to overthrow, by
force, if necessary, the already effected Reconstruction
Acts.

Resolved, That the success of the Democratic party tends
directly to revolution and civil war.
Resolved, That the success of the Republican party is
essential to the public credit, as this party alone can be re-
lied on to make the actual and honest payment of the public
debt in gold and silver a matter of sacred honour, while
the Democratic proposition is an evasion of our duty and

a fraud upon those who have trusted the nation.
Resolved, That the public life of the Hon. Charles Sum-
ner, during the three terms of service in the Senata of the
United States, has fully justified the confidence which
has been successively reposed in him ; that his eloquence,
fearless and persistent devotion to the sacred cause of
human rights, as well in its early struggles as in its later
triumphs, his beneficent efforts after the abolition of
slavery, in extirpating all the incidents thereof, his con-
stant solicitude for the material interests of the country,
his diligence and success as Chairman of the Senate Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs in vindicating the policy and
maintaining the just rights of the Government against
foreign powers, and, at the same time, of preserving peace
with the nations., all present a public record of rare use-
fulness and honour, and that his fidelity, experience, and
honourable identification with our national history, call
for his re-election to that high office in which he has ren-
dered such illustrious service to his country and to man-
kind.

General Butler was well received by the Conven-
tion, and made, both at a caucus on the preceding
evening and at the meeting, effective speeches. fie
said the extraordinary spectacle had been lately
seen of Congress on the one side giving laws to the
Republic, and the Executive upon the other side
insisting that those laws should not be executed
until anarchy reigned at the South, and no Union
man's life was safe there. The issue now is pre-
cisely the same which was fought over in the war,
and under the same leaders ; the very men that
were met in the field. The Forrests and the Lees
are at this hour the leaders of the Democratic party.
General Butler then referred to the recent letter of
General Lee, and said that he had told the North
in that letter that the negroes who fought the Union
battles and were faithful among the faithless can
never have any political rights in the South. Butler
contended that no mutually beneficial arrangement
could be made, for those who have no political
rights are *slaves. The old leaders have only changed
their flag, which now is the Stars and Stripes, but
all could remember when the war opened these
leaders acknowledged they had made a great mis-
take in allowing the North the prestige of the old
flag. At present they had determined "to steal the
livery of heaven to serve the devil in." Minor
questions before such issues should be laid aside.
With General Blair he held Reconstruction to be
the issue, because it involved peace or war. " Un-
less the constitutional ainendmentis ratified by all the
States necessary, the payment of our national debt is
not made a sure thing, and the chances for the pay-
ment of the Rebel debt look up. The party
should not be divided upon the question of the
manner of the payment of the national debt until the
fact that it would some time be paid was assured.
The Democracy, it is true, are carrying ou the
campaign upon entirely different ideas, inasmuch
as it is their policy to keep the people ignorant of
the true 13:-.11CS of the contest. In regard to their
candidate for Governor in this State, he simply
wished to say that his main recommmdation for
the nomination was in the fact that he once be-
longed to the Republican party. It was not
to be forgotten, however, that only three years
ago, in the Legislature of Massachusetts, as a
Republican, the same gentleman warned his
party against receiving D..nnocrats into their
ranks, because they might not always be faith-
ful. Upon this point General Bader said :—" If
you are going to choose a man for any position,
take one who has beco.ue a Republican from con-
viction." Men change their habits frequently, but
rarely their convictions. In this connection Gen.
Butler referred to Judge Abbott, complimenting
his legal ability, but saying that he thought about
as much of his political sagacity as he did when,
in 1818, he was a Free-Soiler. Instead of discuss-

ing the great issues of the day, Judge Abbott had
been telling his Democratic friends how many pen-
knives each member of Congress has. He has
nothing to say of Forrest, nor anything about
the victorious Grant and the Union armies.
Not a word was to be heard about justice to
the men who fought our battles, or about
the soundness of our National Debt. Such things,
Gen. Butler thought, showed the utter paucity of
argument upon their side. lie would not compare
the number of pen-knives of each Congressman
now with that of good old Democratic times, but
he could show them that the Republican Congress
had reduced the estimate of Government expenses
$80,000,000 below what had been stated by the
Secretary of the Treasury, who has recently de-
clared himself in favour of Seymour and Blair. This
same Congress had also taken from the manufactur-
ing interests of the country a tax of $45,000,000, and
to one penknife of extravagance mentioned by Judge
Abbott, he could show a million dollars retrench-
ment." At the last Congressional election in Colo-
rado Geo. M. Chilcott, Republican, was elected by
108 majority over A. C. Hunt, Democrat, the total
being 3,529 against3,42l. The advices from Denver
to September 9 announces the election of Allen A.
Bradford, Republican, as delegate to Congress.
That city gave him 211 majority, and in every
county heard from there was a Republican gain.
From St. Louis the news was of a despatch from
Santa Fe, dated Sept. 8, to the effect that " the
Legislative election yesterday (Sept. 7) resulted in
a Republican victory. The Legislature will be
two-thirds Republican."
We have been under a misapprehension, having
overlooked the fact that the California election,
which ordinarily takes place on the first Wednes-
day of September, was this year postponed to No-
vember, by a special act of the Legislature. Mem-
bers of Congress, presidential electors, and minor
officers will then be chosen. The Springfield Re-
publican, of the 12th instant, says :—" A good deal
of activity now begins to be visible in the presiden-
tial canvass, and if there has ever been any doubt
how the election would go, there is none now. The
greatest political demonstration of the campaign,
so far, was made by the Republicans of Indiana,
at Indianapolis, last week Wednesday, and like
meetings are soon to be held in other parts of the
country. Mr. Pendleton says the result in Nove.-n-
-ber will depend on the October elections in Ohio,
Indiana•, and Illinois, and there is no doubt those
States will elect the Republican ticket by increased
majorities. In Indiana the Republicans claim that
they shall carry nine of the eleven Congressional
districts, and in Ohio they mean to carry sixteen
out of twenty-one, and profess to be able to increase
the Republican majority iu the whole State over
15,000. Pendleton acknowledges the desperate
condition of his party in his own State by cancelling
all his engagements elsewhere, and confi❑ing all his
efforts to home." At the Nevada Democratic State
Convention, W. F. Anderson of Landley county
was nominated for Congress, ant R. H. Taylor and
P. H. Clayton for judges of the Supreme Court.
Presidential electors were also nominated. Among
the Republican nominations are Amos Paul
of Newmarket, New Hampshire, for Presidential
elector for the first district, arid Mason IV. Tap-
pan for the third district. At the Democratic State
Convention held at New Haven, Connecticut, on
Wednesday, Sept. 9, the following Presidential elec-
tors were nominated :—At large : Governor James
E. English and General William B. Franklin ; first
Congressional district, Alfred R. Goodrich; second,
Henry G. Hubbard ; third, Lloyd E. Baldwin ;
fourth, Nathaniel Wheeler. The next day the Re-
publican State Convention nominated the following
ticket for Presidential electors :—At large : Joseph
R. Hawley of Hartford, and W. Fitch of New Ha-
ven ; first district, Clark Holt of Vernon ; second,.
Luther Boardman of East Haddam ; third, Henry
Bill of Norwich ; fourth, Geo. Dudley of Winstead.
In Maryland the Democrats nominated for C .m-
-gress Frederick Stone, Fifth District, Stevenson
Archer re-nominated from Second District, Go-
vernor Swan Third District, comprising thirteen
wards of Baltimore. The District of Minnesota
have nominated Captain Eugene Wilson, of Min-
neapolis, for Congress. A. S. Wallace, of New
York, has been nominated as the Republican can
didate for Congress from the Fourth District of
South Carolina.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The irrepressible correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial has had an interview with General
Forrest, in which that celebrate I Confederate officer
went through his facings at the correspondent's word
of command. The Ku-Klux Klan, Forrest avers to
be a genuine organization ramifying over the South.
In Tennessee alone there are 40,000 men enrolled,

and the total number amounts to half a million
combatants. They await Brownlow's action with
the militia when it is ordered out. If the slightest
outrage is attempted, every white Radical in Ten-
nessee, all of whom are marked, would be killed
without mercy. It is vain for the "carpet-baggers"
and the " scallawags" (the difference, it appears,
being that the former are Northern adventurers, and
the latter Southern renegades), to hope that they
may raise the storm and leave the negroes and the
Southerners to fight it out, for arrangements have
been so made that the first victims would be the
Radicals themselves. Such a contest is abhorrent to
himself and his brethren of the South, but they
cannot avoid it if forced upon them. They are
heartily sick of war, and desire, if allowed, to culti-
vate their lands in peace. Forrest spoke out, and
if he did say what the correspondent alleges there
can be little doubt that he means it, for he is not a
dog that only barks, as the bloody annals of Fort
Pillow can testify. The Legislature of Tennessee
has passed a law empowering the Governor to send
troops to any county, when ten loyal freeholders
residing therein, backed by a Judge, member of
Legislature, Sheriff, or Attorney-General, request
it. The county in which the troops are used
shall pay the expenses. In South Carolina the
Legislature has passed a law, under the appre-
hension of a civil war preceding the Novem-
ber elections, clothing Governor Scott in such
case with the powers of a dictator. A reply
has been published to the appeal of the whites to the
President for protection, denying that the blacks
desire to inaugurate a civil war, though they are
prepared to resist aggression. They assert that the
whites are themselves to blame by their opposition
to the Congressional plan of Reconstruction. Their
words are :—" But we cannot surrender the great
pilladium of our liberties—the ballot-box—for any
consideration whatever. And if we are to be massa-
cred because we ref use to vote the Democratic ticket;
if we are to be murdered in cold blood because we
will not sell our manhood, then let it come—we can
die but once ; and if, as you state, thirty millions of
white men are going to fall upon four millions because
they are black, and will not vote for H. Seymour and
F. P. Blair for President and Vice-President of the
United States, both of whom have declared that
the negroes have no right to vote, then we are pre-
pared to die, but not to vote to be killed. With a
strong faith in God and eternal justice, we wait the
decision of high Heaven. If our cause be just God
will not suffer us to fail with a firm faith in the
right. We ask nothing at the hands of our fellow-
man but a fair chance in the race of life, and equal
opportunities for ourselves, our wives, and our chil-
dren. We ask no more." On the Lower Shanty,
where the cultivation of rice prevails, and the ne-
groes are most ignorant and numerous, there
has been rioting, and some disgraceful stories
arc told of negro outrages there and elsewhere
throughout the South. The Social Equality
Bill, announced some weeks ago, has been
passed, but in a very modified form. In Georgia
the principal event is the action of the Legislature
against the negro members, which has astonished the
North, as the Senate will follow the example set
them in the Lower douse. Considering that the
new State Constitution adopted by the State de-
clares all persons, born or naturalized in the United
States, and resident in the State, citizens of the State,
while it prohibits the passage of any law abridging
these privileges or immunities, the negroes, uot with-
out reason, consider that the carpet-baggers have
sacrificed them to make peace with the Secession-
ists. Bradley, the negro lawyer, who was expelled