Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-13
The Character of the Philadelphia
COnrRnafOn

these is the Southern rebels, in g solid
body, representing the entire South. The
second is the Copperhead Democracy.
The third is the so-called johnson Union
ists-the bread-and-butter renegades.-
Under the terms of the call, the delega-
ton from each Northern State will be d.
vided equally between Copperheads and
renegade Unionists. The South will be
solidly rebel, but as it is smaller than the
North, the balance of power will be very
evenly preserved. The convention will
consist of 1858 delegates-eight at large
from each State, and four from each Con.
gressional district-and will, we estimate.
be divided as follows:
Rebels 3Ss
Copperheads 44O
Observation-Disclosures 44O
Total 1,268
1t will be seen that any section, by
combining with either of the others, will
control the convention. 1t requires nc
prophet to foretell the fact that the Rebels
and Copperheads will coalesce. Three,
fourths of the ead-and-butterites having
been Democrats before the war, will join
with them, and the rebel element will
control everything.
The personal character of the delegates
elected tends to show the same thing
The Ohio delegation, for example, is
evenly divided in number between Cop
perheads and renegade Unionists, but il
talent and force the former are immeas.
urably superior Among the delegate:
from the Buckeye State, are George H
Pendleton, Copperhead candidate for
Vice President in 1864; William Allen
the Nestor of Calhoun Democracy IL
Ohio; the five last Copperhead candidates
for Governor, Payne in 1857, Ranney il
1859, Jewett in 1861, Vallandigham in
1868, and Morgan in I865-all of them
unsuccessful, we are happy to say
Bamolus Burns, a notorious Peace Dem
ocrat, George Bliss, whose virulent oppo-
sition to the war has made him badly
eminent in his own Democratic county,
together with Reemelin, Fries, Clymer,
Palm, Thurman, Kenney, Odds, and 8
host of similar Democrats of the ultra.
Vallandigham school.
In other States we find similar delega-
tions, The names of Tilden, DEMO, and
Church, which were prominent in the
Chicago Convention of 1854, are among
those of the leading New Workers, and S
S. Cox, Fernando Wood, James Brooks
and John Morrissey follow as lesser lights
Pennsylvania sends as its representative
man Chief Justice Woodward, the author
of the decision declaring that soldiers
could not vote in the camp for the coun-
try they had volunteered to defend and
Il man who may well boast that in
the whole war he never pablicly expressed
a word or sympathy with the Union. Fol-
lowing his name are such as that of Jerry
Black, the Attorney General who gave
Buchanan the opinien that while seces-
sion was unconstitutional, there was no
power in the National Constitution 10
eoerce a State TO remain in the Union /;
Gaylord Church, the well-known Mead
vile Copperhead David r. Porter,
Buchanan's intimately ex-senator Bigler,
Richard Vaux, and others of that ilk.
New Hampshire sends Edward Burke,
The most notorious and offensive sympa-
thizer with the rebellion in New England.
Connecticut sends her two leading Ccp-
perheads, Ingham and Seymour. New
Jersey will be present in John P. Stock
ton, Governor Parker, Benjamin William
son, and other extreme Democratic politi-
clans. Maine sends L. d. NJ. Sweat, the
only New England Copperhead in the
Thirty-Eighth Congress. Indiana sends
such infamous Sons of Liberty as Melon
AID, LATE. Develin, Graham n. Fitch, and
Dave. Turpie. Illinois will have her
Thornton, her Ross, and her Marshall,
brilliant Copperhead ornaments of the
present Congress, in her delegation. Cal
ifornia will be represented by that
drunken disgrace to the United States
McDougslL. And SO throughout
the North.
The character of the Southern delegates
even more marked and startling.
Maryland is represented by Montgomery
Blair, who was driven from Mr.. Lincoln's
Cabinet by the stern demand of pnblic |
and has ever since been co-ope-
ating with the Copperheads by Gov
rnor Swami, who, after being elected by
Union votes, initiates Andrew johnson. |
y appointing commissioners under the
law who will receive the votes of
he returned rebels at the coming Novem-
election in that State; and by Beria-
min G. Harris, the rebel representative
Who has been censured by the House of
Representatives for his bitter hostility to
be Government, and who, in his very
asst speech, boosted of the fact that the
rebels could walk over the
OF Northern Union soldiers. OBJ
erve, that all the Winter Davis element
fhich alone held Maryland to the Union,
carefully excluded from this delegation.
7irginia has elected one but politicians
no sympathized with the rebellion
-nion men like Franklin Stearns, John
[. Bots, John c. Underwood and Lewis
IcKenzie sternly opposing the I4th of
-ugust Convention as they warmly ap-
rove that Of the Sd of September. 1t is
oteworthy that the virulent rebel papers
Virginia mlngle their abuse Of the
and the Southern Unionists with
'rnest appeals in favor eff the conven-
on of the l4th inst. Every delegate F.,
ected hom Virginia to that convention 4,
IS either served in the rebel army or !
herwise aided that conspiracy against
e Government. South Carolina sends !
INES L. Orr, John L. Manning, and 9TH I
S. The claim of South Carolina to dis
netion is that, under the influence of
csc men, though f~ye-several times re- !
iested to do so by President johnson
{ steadily refused to r~epudiate the rebel q
IT debt From Alabama we have the $
enc dc Ia creme of the rebel leaders; the q
y Governor Parsons, ex-senator B. I
fitzpatrick, the insolent and fo~ul-mouthed d
I'm FORSYTH. editor of tho Mob;la /