The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-09-21
DAILY PRESS.
ND.
Friday Morning. September 81, 1866.
Tho Cleveland Convention.
PORTLAND.

The Cleveland convention has come and
vanished, "a moment seen than lost forever
The foreordained three days of its existence
have shrunken to two, and we begin to write
its epitaph day after the funeral The tent
was pitched on the shore OF Lake Erie. "A cor
poral's guard reported for duty Monday, and
adjourned without efecting permanent Or
ganization, TO wait for achievements Gen.
Ewing made speech, in which he said plain
ly that he would not have fought to maintain
the Union, u he had believed that slavery
would go down in the struggle. The Tribuue's
correspondent said with prophetic instinct
q that the speech sounded like one that Gen.
Lee, or Gen. Forces, or Gen. Beauregard
would deliver, rather than man claiming to
be Union general" Sure CROUCH, Tuesday
Drought a congratulatory letter from Forrest
ilmself and no other reinforcement OF any &C
count. Gen. Forests letter was well received.
why not? Gen. Ewing had already defended
the New Orleans massacre; why stick at the
memory of Fort Pillow. So the delegates pre-
ceeded to endorse the President" appointed a
committee TO convey the important inteili7
Sehce 10 washington, ana tneh,-
Iaq ssThey folded their tent Ike the Arabs.
And a. silently stole away" FL u
1t rained both days. The Cleveland people
looked in Monday, saw enough, and stayed at
home Tuesday. There was no reception. no
popular enthusiasm. The two hotels. where
the delegates stopped, made show Of buntl
ing;so did one enthusiastic money lender
Three flags constituted the whole demonstra-
tlon OF welcome. What with the chilling indif-
ference of the Cleyelanders, tn e cool dripping
OF the rain, and the paltry show of numbers,
III was season of pre-eminent discomfort.
Two New Workers protested against the or
sanization under Copperhead officers, declar-
ing that they supposed It was to be- Conserve
tive convention and preferred the COMPRESSION
al policy to an unconditional surrender to their
old enemies. Another hero, whose name and
nativity are not recorded, entered his protest
against the reception of Forests impudent
epistie. 1t is needless to say that these pro-
testants we're quietly hushed by the most ap-
proved methods, Senator Doolittle was there,
Ior mat express purpose. To be sure Senator
Doollttle is not soldier, buthe is an excellent
manager OF mute convention, and he man
aged this. The Philadelphia rule cutting Off
debate, was introduced at precisely the right
moment. Every precaution was taken to
prevent the animals from breaking loose, and
the performance passed off in perfect order,
with the trifing exception of the growls Just
mentioned. go g Hah az. '' -
Besides Senator Doolittle, there were other
distinguished soldiers. Gustav, who has Just
been promoted Scr gallant and meritorious
conduct" from q eaptaincy to a lieutenant
coloncy,--ssa -aQan,D said an Ohio brother ia
arms, with good deal of hair but very little
brains. Gordon Granger, president of the
convention, who wants a promotion or the
colectorship Of some port and don't care
cent which. Ewing who made the pro-slsyerv,
speech-the same man who prohibited the
circulation in Kentucky of the New York
News, Express and Freemans journal. Win
tiers OF Ohio, who Was Radical until he lost
the nomination for Congress in his districf.
ard is now working to earn the appointment
OF assessor of internal revenue. Steedman.
an aspirant for the War Desk at Washington.
Lew Campbell, the regular Minister to Mexi-
co, who has been taking care Of his countrys
by staying in Ohio and attending johnson
Conventions. Gen. Este, Secretary of the Ter
rtory OF New Mexico. Col. Scott of Kentucky.
man trying to get a general contract. Gen
LOOMS, an Internal. Revenue Collector in
Michigan COL Zulich, Collector in New Jer-
sey. Gan. Rousseau, the man who caned little
Griunell; his second, Col. Pennebaeker, the
man who supported Rousseau in his attack on
Grinnei by lying IN the rear armed to the
teeth. Gen. Meredith, johnson candidate for
Congress and a hero of the Rousseau stripe
having once caned Congressman Julian for
indulging IN free speech. Dorbin Ward, the
Democratic candidate for Congress in Vallan-
dighams old District, and score of others
who hold Offices or want to hold them. The
New York World mentions as delegates from
Maine, Ger. A. s. "Doggett' and Capt J.. CT
M, sForhisk.r Such is fame-to be killed in
action an have your name misspelled in the
N"No''e. .iufo3 sH5 sd E3alsn93 sEi!RY7iQ
In fine, this was second DoolittIe conven-
ton, with great deal OF humbug in the be-
ginning and a palpabIe fizzie at the end.
Among the siRrers to the call, about which SO
much fuss has been made by Copperhead
newspapers which never had any praise for
soldiers before, were designated major GEN
eialn John l.. Swift, our Boston friend, who
must have been promoted aquite unbe-
knownst" to himself or the country; Dan
Sickles and Crook, who both refused to sign;
vu11r AZ.
vice for his conduct near Memphis; Denver
and others, who resigned on account of the
emancipation policy of the government; W.
u. Burnett, who never served at all, though
offered commission, and LOT of militia |
brigadiers of the Blair-Gamble sort. from Mis-
souri,. All the soldiers in the departments at
Washington were urged TO sign, and most of |
them declined. In the custom houses at Bal.
tiinore, Philadelphia and New York, they
were required to sign or march. That was
the way IN which the failure was gotten up
How tar this assembly of office seekers repre-
sented the soldiers of the Union appears in
the vigorous language of the following resolu-
ton, adopted by the soldiers of MASSACHUSETTS
in convention in FsneuiI Hall on Tuesday:
Resolced, that we deplore the apostacv of
such of our fellow-soldiers as have deserted the
banner of liberty and allied themselves with
Northern Copperheads and Southern traitors;
that we deny the right of any late general or
generals to send unauthorized persons TO politi-
cal conversions as the delegates of the Massa-
chusetts soldiers. without the knowledge or
consent OF said soldiers, and that zoe denotnace
III repedadte any attempted qiatio,s aoit still
"'''0ydt members OF the late rebel army.di laGs
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