The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-18
Political.

Political.
1t is said that General DIX has written a lot.
tor favoring the Philadelphia National Conyen-
ton.
In the northwest Wisconsin leads in call for q.
state Convention, to be held at Madison on the 1st
OF August, to appoint delegates to Philadelphia
In the South the call of the Convention from
tho National Committee, and tho call Of the Dom.
ocraio members of Congress, is received in spi-
rit worthy of all praise.
VIRGINIA.
AT regular meeting of the johnson
constitutional Club Of Portsmouth, Va held n few
days since, 1t was unanimously resolved that COM
mittee be appointed for the purpose of calling n
State Convention, to elect delegates to the Ma
tiona Union Convention to be held in PHILADELPHIA
on the 14th of August, 1866, in accordance with
which the committee appointed have issued tho
following call:
Pursuant to said resolution, State Convention
is hereby called to meet at Petersburg, Va, on
the 26th day OF July, to consist of one delegate
to every fifty votes cast at-the last election from
each city and county, and one delegate Mt large
from each city and town. Such delegates will be
elected by called meetings of such citizens MS sup
port tho President in his efforts at reconstruction
Since the great object of this National Union
Convention is the restoration to the South of til, il
rights under the Constitution it is earnestly re-
qucsted that each city and county send its full re-
Pfesontaion and such editors throughout the
rGSD0ntfnIlp
requested to publish tho above notice.
Signed by tho committee.
The Winchester papers contain call for a Con-
vention, to be held in tho Alexandria district on
the 9th of July, to appoint delegates to the Phi
ladelphia Convention.
JACK HAMILToN's CONVENTION.
Wo have already noticed q call for a soi-disant
Southern Radical Convention, to Offset tho Ma
tional Union Covention Of men of all parties,
from all sections of the Union. The New York
Neaos thus gives the lives and history of some of
the signers of JACK HAMILToN's call
Three Of them profess to be citizens of Texas.
Not one of them is q resident of that State Gov
ernor Hamilton left it some time ago, declaring
that he never expected to reside there again and
he is now in Washington. George W. Paschall,
whose suspected treason to the Confederacy was
magnanimously overlooked by its government
during all tho war, is now living in Washington
and practicing law there; Lorenzo Sherwood re-
sides in the city Of Brooklyn, and has law-office
In this city. These are the Texans
I've deorgans sign the call, G. ". Ashburn
and Henry G; Cole. Neither. of them is known
to hundred men outside of his county They
are both Northern men by birth and education.
One of them is a correspondent of oston paper.
and as such is the malignant slanderer Of the
people among whom he lives.
Eight sign it as citizens of Virginia. Except Un-
derwood, whose infamy has made him notorious,
theao men are all utterly insignificant and un-
known. Ono of them, Louis Mckenzie, is q rather
| respectable person.. Another, the Rev. J. w.
Hnnnicutt is crack-brained, add!eratcd sort OF
| fellow, whom every ono laughs at, q South Caro-
linian by birth. The remaining six aro all natives
| of the North
The sgners from Alabama are, with the excep.
ton OF Mr.: George keese, so obscure and uil-
| known that we venture to say that they have
never been heard OF ten miles from their nonles
We are somewhat surprised that MI Reese ap-
pended his namo to the call, if indeed it was
placed there by his authority. The four Nilsson
| rians who sign the paper are part of the scum
that was thrown TO the surface of the filthy DO
ltcal pool OF that State by the terrible agiations
of tho war. If there is q man in all tho land who
can tell us anything about the two North CARO-
! lInlans whose names grace tho call, we shall be
Obliged to him for the information
These arc the men who have called a Convcn.
| ton of "the Loyal Unionists OF the South" to
meet at Philadelphia On the first Monday in Sep