Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-07-07
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.

THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.
The Louisville Journal favors the
proposed Convention and makes some
very pertinent suggestions in its be-
half After stating that there are an
tagonistic elements and opposing fac
tons in both the Republican and Dem
cratic parties, and that the great body
ofthe people are reasonable men, who
want peace and union, and who are
willing, in order to secure them, to
act literally and justly.
The Journal adds that it is the sup
position of some able and judiciSus
thinkers that an effort to bring the
mass of those liberal and patriotic men
together for the common good of our
common country would be successful,
and thus solve the great problem, as
yet unsolved, how to terminate finally
the unhappy contest which abstracts
and disturbs the public mind, and
warns sagacious men of the patriotic
duty of making manly attempt to
put an end to it.
The Age, one of the leading and
perhaps the ablest of the Democratic
papers of Philadelphia, takes very de
cided ground in favor of the Conven-
ton, and urges the Democratic party
to accept the aid of the Republicans in
the coming elections. 1t states '' that
the principle that State should have
the absolute control of suffrage within
its limits, should decide, without eX-
ternql interference, who should vote
and who should not, is doctrine held
by all Democrats, by many moderate
Republicans-in other words, by all
who sustain the President, and OF
course by the whole South. 1t is
vital principle. 1t is one of practical
and immediate interest The next
elections are to be determined with
reference to it, and shall we Demo
Gratis, with the assurance of sympathy
like this, stand off in surly dignity and
refuse all such communion, rendered
to us, too, without any derogatory
suggestion as to our organization
We confess we cannot see the reason
of such prudishness. There is another
view which occurs to us. A National
Convention, of any kind, likely to as
semble, must be an important and i'm
posing body-as, being the first body
in which for five, or indeed six years,
the Southern States have been repre-
scented. Their presence here, after all
this frightful war and bloodshed, after
this rupture of all ties, social, ecclesi-
astical, political, will be picturesque
Delegates from Georgia and South
Carolina, and Texas, and Tennessee,
mingling on equal terms with those
from New York and Pennsylvania.
We can imagine the touching grandeur
Of the scene when Virginia, mother OF
States and statesmen, shall again, and
of her own accord, without humiliation
though in sorrow, gashed with gre
vious scars but still heroic, present
herself and earnestly yet proudly ask
or claim admission into national coun-
ellis Who doubts what her reception
will be in body such as the August
Convention must be, free from section
alism and the satanic control of radi-
calism? 1t is worse than idle to un-
derrate the Importance of such, a coun-
Gil or such an event. Our opponents
feel this, and hence their studious eff
fort to disparage it. This too, seems
to be the idea of some of our New
York friends For ourselves, seeing
no harm and much probable good in
it, we do not hesitate to say that the
consummation of this initiatory plan
Of restoration or reconstruction or re-
association will be matter to us, as
Democrats, of sincere rejoicing, and
the Radicals may think and say exactly
what they please about this clear and
frank expression of our views. The
heathens will rage any how"