The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-11-19
The Party of Political Ghosts.

The Party of Political Ghosts.
We have received the following printed letter
which we are disposed to give the benefit of our
circulation
New YORK, November 9, 1868.
DEAR SIR You are respectfully invited to at-
tend Convention to be held at Cincinnati, OHIO,
on the Sd day of December next,at II NJ, for the
purpose of consultation, and taking such action as
NAV be deemed most effective to secure the nom-
nation and election of Conservative men in the
approaching Presidential Campaign. The meet
ing will be composed of OLD LINE WINGS
WAR DEMOCRATS CONSERVATIVE MEN, without
regard to former party observation-disclosures OF
JACKSON, WEBSTER, CLAY and CRITTENDEN,
who desire 10 preserve the Union and the Copst-
tuition unimpared Who are willing to take
their stand upon the Kentucky Platform, opposed
alike to secession and abolition fanatcism,-W no
believe that the war should be carried on till those
in armed revolt are compelled to obey the Con-
Stitution and the laws of Congress, and who hold
that the State Goyernmer is suspended by the
revolt should be restored under their State Con-
sttutions respectively. All such persons are In
vited to be present.
The meeting will be held under the auspices of
the "National Conservative Uuion Committee"
appointed at the recent Rochester Convention, Of
which the venerable patriot Amos Kendall, is
Chairman that Committee having been called
to meet at the same time and place. In his let
ter to the Secretary, Mr.. Kendall writes, The
only cure platform for patriotic men who love the
Union, is The Constitution as II as" With
the gentlemen whose names YOU mention, (men-
bers of the Committee), am prepared to coop
crate in the attempt to unite the Conservative
elements OF the country in the next Presidential
Election, and it seems to me no time should be
lost in determining upon line Of policy to be
steadily pursued henceforth."
Persons arriving to attend the meeting will
please report their names to the National Com
mttee at the Burnett House. Enclosed please
find proceedings of the Rochester meeting.
Your presence is earnestly solicited, that we
may have the benefit of youl counsel.
By order Of the Committee.
X. F. STEVENS, Secretary.
105 East 49th Street, New York.
p. S.-Please inform US if We may expect
your attendance.
Inasmuch as it will not be entirly convenient
for us TO be at the proposed Convention, we take
this opportunity to say SO. No doubt, however,
the defurct politicians who have been left behind
in the march of events the last three years, or
have been buried like Vallandigham under the
mountain of popular majorities, will appear at
the appointed time, coming from their various
political limbos, to take ghos,ly counsel together
respecting their own departed glory and power,
and tie decadence and evidently approaching
death of their well beloved institution, which
Abraham Lincoln Smote SO fatally under the fifth
rib on the LIST day Of January Of the current year.
"All such persons are invited to be present. -
"Old Line Wings" men who with Webster and
Fillmore abandoned the faith which their party
professed for years, took out of that party its vi
tai principle and run it high and dry clear out of
water in 1852 land since that time have beea stead
fast 10 but one thing, and that is adherence to
the fortunes of Slavery, "are expected to be
present." "War Democrats" of the Horatio
Seymour pattern, and not of the Butler, Dix,
and Van Buren, stamp ARE expected to be pres
ent." The " Conservative" gentlemen men
who will not look upon the new moon out of re-
spect for that ancient and venerable institution
the old one, who have nc "party predictions y
but always vote the Democratic ticket, who are
the friends OF Jackson, Webster, Clay and Crit
tenden, and of nearly all the dead men,-in short
whose friends are mostly under ground-and who
are willing to stand on the Kentucky platform, OIL
any platform which will observe slavery, arr
invited to be present"
The object of this gathering Of delunct politi
clans is, in the language of Amos Kendall, theil
chairman, " to cooperate in the attempt to unite
the Conservativ elements of the country in the
next Presidential Election in other words an or.
ganization OF party for the next Presidential
campaisn. Nominaly the movement is in the
hands of old line Wings, but it is really engn
eered by those who have worked with and for the
Democratic party for the last two years, and have
done what they could to oppose the Administra
ton in its war policy. The enterprise is in aiC
OF the party which has been so signally beaten a
the polls, but which yet hopes by divisions, if b,
no other MEANS TO weaken the Administration
and thus advance the political fortunes Of the op
position in the election of President next wear.