Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-07-31
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city and at all the watering places, the iprinTd A
cipal topic of discussion is, the Rhiladel phia
National Union Convention. wherever
two or three persons are gathered togetheraI
tbisdsubject iSsure t0Tbef observation-disclosures o
standard natIsf9f 9Ss ?its ltds
ate Ifulf Of it.. ."6alIs tfot State Conventions
To eject delekatesn 10 it9are being issuedgl
EvefEbody isfgOing, tOIattepd jtI 9Apipr
nielseI wigwapl tor 1jt isj reoprse. 81, ereS7
ton, the RAILROADS will run extra trains to
aScomthodate the fcrUwtf ifhe old pf8verb
tells us that ID 1is betber to- he Oub off tlIg
worldthaniout of the iasblon3 and deeidedo
ly it will be the fashiQnl 70 "a tp the Con-
veption, No politician Of any Importance
can afford to stay away, unless, he 'bca radt-
| caf doomed to tAe wrath % COME. 81 In that
case he may reserve himse1tfor Jack HanF
iltonIsl Nagro1woBshipi9gi Convention rrilpqr ripr
BSt %Tiie everybody preparing to CO.
to the National Union gathering, it Is sine
! ghlar that each the cliques3and lfactions
wants to keep, all the resbout. Weed and
RaymQnd promise TO be there; but they
| turn 10 their noses at the Wood Brothers
and at Marble ahdo Belhoft, the sheaE.per-
shent twins, and Mt Vallandighama and his
tail, and insist that all these notorious peo-.
| ple must be excluded, We should like to
| know Why The terms Of the call for the
! Cohv6htioifd 90 not exclude them, and Tothll
4 ing else can. What isT there about the
Woodl BrOtaers, for instance, that untits
then, to, sit in the pig 5wigYam With,
| the latter gentlemen Will not insist
too stronglyiapoii acomparisoRof personal
recoEdso of general jobs. Is it, then, that
the Woods, and Vallandigham, and, Bel
mont and Marble sympathized With the
rebels dtifiiig the war and are Rlfttle taintI
ID that way still? Mr. iBelmont will not
admit this soft impeachment, and Mr.. Mar
Bile indignantly denies it and calls for pis
tolls and Coffee, as If he had purchased some
Of the warlike spirit 6fthe UheValier Webb
whenihe bought in the old duelistlse papeDs
But, even in. the notorious cases Of the
Woods and ;NaIlandigham, how can Weed
and Raymond refuse tOassOciate with these
worthless, when they are willing to act with
the repentant rebels Of the South2 A Cop-
peFhead may be as bad as, or even worse
than, traitor; that is mere matter of
opinion. 1Bht certainly when,a C0pperheap
becomes, converted to the Uniop, cause he is
Just as good as a converted rebel, and those
Who are anxious to meet with reformed
rebels cannot, with any sort Of grace or
consistency, refuse to admit reformed Cop
perheads to the coalition. mo political
church can undertakelt0 shut outa single
. class of sinners. who really and honestly,
desire 70 avail themselves of the benefits OF
b saving grace. -,
, Adelphia sCOnRentiont has rdriftecb1 away
4 from first principles. To keep themselves
= straight, the parties concerned ought to
Il publish the original call every other day.
a That3aH recognizes the Observation-Disclosures
the President and Congress, and Invites all
whoFsuppOpt the President and his policy
of reunion to take, part in the Convention.
Ii saws nothing about the Woods, or Vafg
i iafidighaIn, or9Bel Hi0nGj or Marble, or any
other obnoxious individual. 1t lays 5dOWn
h broad, solid piatfofm,- upon which all
may stantF Without cr0#dihg each other or
nhewaf bFSr now gold things have pass
edIaway ieyegythingi is to begin de n0Hgeqg,
1t makes no difference what mans posi-
tion was as to other issues, now dead and
Z buried; the only vital question is as to his
} position ih regard to tins great new issue
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know the Woods thoroughly; we have no
more cOnfdeneeinth pfesentthanw we
had while they were esellingFthemselves to
both sidesdnring the war; but if they state
, that they are readYto. sustain the, Presi=
dents policy and the Union, they cannot
' be turned ont of the Philadelphia COIven-
I tion under the terms Of its call.0 Messrs.
Weed aha Raymond, who are clearly not
without sin, should not, throw the, first
stone i1 this rude and unjustifiable man
ner.7 Somebody may retaliate before long
! byiopposingthe admission of lobbyists Ii
\ is,muoh better to take the only. tTueground
and advocate the admission of all cOmers.
One clique win then heutralize another,
p and we SHALL get a moral force from the
. combined influence OF the Convention that
4 will workymDst powerfully insthe, fail cleo
tions.3 These ,squabbles beforehand over
Mr., Ben. Woods dirty linen or Mr.. Weeds
o dirty linen cananount to nothing. Allthe
, linen will benade pure and spotlesstbythe
, Conventions. Those whose SINS sGWere rs
Scarlet will come forth white as snow. The
issues between the President and Congress
> WIN absorb all other issues, and every poll
Z tiean wilpbe judeedb bcnOtlbyw hehas
4 done, but bylwhat he is doing. Let us have
q general political amnesty, and the people
will accomplish all the rest. =" ,'uua E'u'.
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