Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-08-17


had nattered myself that by my course Of
professional training Was better fitted to
represent The STATE in the Senate thaa was
Mr.. Morrill,, and on accoun, Of the difference
in the two Houses. But, il it be the pleas
ure Of the people that we should change pla
ces, il is not for me to find fault. aud if any
disagreeable consequences ensue, it is your
fault not mine. shall endeavor, so far az |
am able, to represent you ieatlessly and faith
fully and to observe the true principles OF
Vermont Republicani.m, in which | believe.
But gentlemen. ii il should turn out thai this
swap should be like the one made by theKlnR
when he changed his chaplain and cook, and
thereby spoiled 'both the prayer and the pud
ding, the blame will lie with you and not with
me.
accept your nomination, gentlemen, and
with the express understanding that / shall
not be candidate for the succession Of Judge
Culamer's place in the Senate
And now, one more word in reference to
the President and his course. do not wish
to do the Preside't any injustice. When he
adopted bic plan Of reconstruction he wa.
confident it was going to work well Il has
turned out to be a failure The southern men
have taken advantage # the leniency extend
ed TO them. They are not putting tbemse YES
in a condition 90 be In harmony with the I'm
ion, aud when President Johnson found that
his plan was not sanctioned by the people
instead of retiring from it gracefully as be
should have done, he wifullj and obstinately
persists in il. And who is to support him Ia
/ IL; There Is mo- mskiug hind party in this
/ country There is TO be the Republican Tn.
/ ion party and The party that gl ried in ouI
/ defeat and rtj iced whenever the rt bells won
a victory. II nsg-Ptesident is TO have party
| to maintain and sustain him, he must get hi,
streng from that party. l. u possible iui
a man to- furnish platform aud ouilc party
entirely upon hi, own popularity? 1t TIM
/ Philadelphia Convention goes on, Presiden
! Johns II. inste.d Of moldtng the ID smocrauC
/ party 20 mis- views, must himself become
merged into the Democratic party. And wha
will this Philadelphia Convention be cOmpo
sed OF IL will be mixture Of the copper
heads of the North with the traitors and ED
els Of the South. and pert APPS little spriuk
ling OF conservative epubIicans-but Their
will MT be enough leaven t. ieaven the lump
predict that h. will be- ii miserable f4lIure--
failure whI.h WI identify Itself with tina
party that resolved at Chicago that the wa
was a failure. This is where the Pre,iden
is going To land With his present course. h
Aaters hlm,ei that be is goin. TO maintaI
the leadership. but the result Of il all viii b
tina, he will be compelled 90 stand upon thei
platform or not stand at all.
But have already detained you with NOR
exh tu-tive remarks than | intended. than
you kindly for ,As nomination and the conf
dence il espresso, in me, and shall AXE
for granted, gentlemen, That am acqulue
If all charge of JOtnsoHsm Z
Mr. Poind r-ured amid loud cheers
ev - that the peap would i,t him uneap,r,
Gov. Wells, Of Louisiana. further says {
the Louisiana Convention
81 tad seen that, while prcfssssng wit
their lips renewed allegiance to the fag an
an obliteraiion Of the past, which embodie
the pacific policy Of the President, they wer
becoming arrogant, intolerant and diclatoria
They glory In he apparent schism bttwee
the President and Congress in the poll
cy # restoring the States lately ia rebel
lion, and rub their hands with delight at tn
idea Of civil war in the loyal States. |
view Of all his array OF strong, stubboi
facts, | freely acknowledge ny views Of d con
hetory policy, IN turning back to alegianc
those who have been engaged in war /
destroy the Union, have undergone d chang,
The intolerance pail eugendered by SLAYER
still exit. The loss Of property and the fail
ute # hopes can never be forgiven, and tho
| regard them a lmpoient TO resist the con
sttuted authority eulorced oy the presence
the military, yet am c4nUmced h.y tpoul
reneD the t,J lion 0 morro,o u th'y sato
prospect Of success
On the legality Of the Convention to Assem-
Bile he says;
Senators and Representatives in Cor
gress, Of great learning. and men Of high lie
gal attachments 10 New Oheans, have ex
presse the opinion that under he resolutio
Of adj ournment The Convention could Lawful
ly assemble A distinguished Democrat
Senator in Congress took the same view
For myself, if had any doub, on the -ubjec
have deferred TO the opinion OF ahIer men.
In addition to the old Convention OF on
hundred and fifty delegates, sxty-one ne
oues were to he elected from the twent 5-se,
en unrepresented parishes, thus giving tt
! whole State fair reprssen alton.
The difranchising auses in the Conven
ton OF 1864 are iar more tolerant towar
those engaged in tn rebellion than the cor
sututions Of Missouri and Tennessee.
In common ing on the massacre which too
place at the destitute, b. charge. the May ,
aud he police with neglecting the member
Of the convention, who we're shot, stable
and beaten, while in custody and in the pre-,
ence Of the entire police OF The city"
Its also notorious" he says, " that Ii
police failed to arrest, or attempt to ares
even one OF the riotous citizens who, accorC
ing to their off repeated statements wei
continually attacking, wounding and KILN
persons who had surrendered and were i
their custody"
He also states that it was the deliberaI
object Of the Mayor to break up the CONVEX
ton by free and that the slaveholding aril
tocracy, having failed in their attempt t
destroy the Government, they seek to retail
political power by the same spirit of polite,
violence By which their chiefs had sustaine
thsir-supremacy before the war"
The Governor finally defines his postio
in the fllowing language, which fully ident
6es him hereinafter with the Republican pa
ty, and in opposition to the Presidents pol