The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-08-25
The Philadelphia Convention.
CoMMENTs on DEE RICHMoNp PREss.

OODMEnio VI me AeiOhhOND hnoo.
The Richmond papers of Friday only received
a Geographic synopsis Of the platform of the
Philadelphia Convention, and they generally
withhold their comments until the resolutions in
full shall have reached them. What they haSe
seen, however, is sufficient to give them an idea
of The spirit OF the platform. How it is received
will be seen by the following extracts
From the Richmond Enquirer.
We published 10 day fuller report OF the pro-
ceedings Uf Wednesday, Of which ye-t.rday's tel
egrams gave only an imperfect synopsis. The
speech OF Mr.. Dooliltle on taking the chair as
permanent President is the principal feature OF
that day. 1t declared a cordial concurrence in
the previous speech Of General Dix and expressed
otherwise the most priseworthy sentiments. 1t
dwelt with AN especial JUNCTION on " the scene IN
| which South Carolina and Massachusetts were
played off against each other, and made to be-
! little our great national tragedy by sort OF
school-boy performance. Mr.. Doolittle skiltully
balances the skins of the other and pronounces
them meet tor each others embrace and hence
forth they are to move arm in-aim'' along the
walks OF history. The ceremony would have
been more to the point if the proxies had been
| representative men OF the two States Hampton
and the Beast, instead of Orr and Couch.
The interest OF yesterday proceedings centres
III tuC pluuOTuI vi TeSOullOuS. vi THESE tue lel6-
| gram gives US only synopsis, and it tells us
| that they were unanimously and enthusiastical
| ly adopted" 1t would he Premature to go into
very nice comments on what may prove to be an
lnexact repre- SenatlOu but we owe ii TO candOl
to express our great surprise that proceedings
which had, up to that time, shown an enlarged
! catholicity OF sentiments, should suddenly have
, taken so gross turn and we are constrained
also to declare our establishment and mortifca-
NSNFn 2I,a
| Southern delegates should be found voting their
unanimous assent funded they did SO. Ger
/ tain it is that some OF the declarations made in
i these resolutions are what no generous mar
ought to have asked Southern citizen to vote
/ for what no Southern citizens could vote fol
without grossly compromising the dignity of hi
State and outraging the sentiments Of his people
| 1t is one thing to submit-to abide reSult-tt
covenant to do SO with full purpose to keep the
engagement honestly Is it another to justify
and applaud the means which brought it about
How could the Convention, North or South, vott
that " the war has maintained the authority o
| the Constitution" when the Convention wa
i called together for the express purpose of endeaV
! oring to restore the Constitution now trampeC
under foot ? How could Southern men thus sane
ton the constttutiondlty OF the coercion OF STATE
/ How could our delegates " unanimously and en-
/ Enthusiastically vote to repudiate the Confederate
4 in 6 recognizing the services y o. the Federal ar
mics and The obligation of the robbed and PENN
less widows and orphans of our own dear, mar
i tyred, murdered heroes 10 pay some :" debt " a
] justly due by them to those made them so z
Our people submit to the violence that has beg
/ CARED them, and to the military force that ha
put the noblest and the best Of our sons beneat
the sod but they will never so dishonor tn
/ graves of our heroes enthusiastically" to ap
nil nj &c Wa ha rnfnI red -
The North might well adopt such declarations
and we should not quarrel with them for it bu
enough, thousand times enough, that the Sout
should be silent amid the denunciations OF he
cause and the Civilizations over her defeat.
From the Richmond Examiner.
The telegraph supplies summary of the plat
form adopted yesterday at Philadelphia, whicl
we hope to find, like some we have received, in
accurate If the report be true, we are compel
led to say that it falls below the level of the occa
son and while it embraces some sound PROPOSE
ton contains others to which we cannot agree
and which we know will not fall pleasantly Oh
ears of the Southern people. What could tn
delegates who undertook to represent the Sout
have been about, and where is the authority TO
| pledging their constituency to these utteranceS
We hope sincerely the report is erroneous.
| From the Richmond Dispatch.
The greatest sacrifice was made by the South
ern representatives In Young LOT OF even agreelul
| to the adoption of the resolutions passed by tn
Convention. We have as yet only telegraphi'
| synopsis of these resolutions, yet we have enoug
of their contents TO enable us 10 know that
must have been a powerful motive that coul'
have induced Southern men of true Sonther
feelings and prejudces TO aequiesce in their adop
ton, or rather, TO speak more correctly, in tn
adoption Of some of them. But until we hav
seen the resolutions themselves we prefer not L
comment upon them. We are not disposed t
| hold our delegates TO a very strict account TO
| their acts either of commission or commission
| They no doubt think it necessary TO fight the rad
zeal devils with fire. and have governed them
selves accordingly.