Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-07-26

of the men who sustained this government
and carried it through the horrid perils
which environed it for four long years
Moreover, who is FERNANDO WooD VAL
LANDlGHAM, and their compeers, "to cut
loose from,"' because they made them
selves so justly obnoxious opublic censure
during the war" Are not they the men,
did these worthless not concoct the measures
| during the war winch made them infamous
to the whole loyal sentiment of the coun-
| try? Surely no names among the osnox
ious sympathisers Of the North were more
| conspicuous They are the men who cnp't
selled resistance to the laws. They made
the Government all the trouble laty ."Hld,
in order to hinder its progress against t.,
rebellion and these are the men who are
to cut loose from the obnoxious aiders and
abettors of rebels, when they, themselves,
Gus opposition to the Union cause in the
country. Queer cutting loose this would
be. Imagine, gentle reader, ex-mayor FER-
NANDo WooD, of New York City, democrat
and sympathizer with rebels, cutting loose
from ex-mayor FERNANDO WooD, of New
York City, democrat and sympathizer with
rebels !! ! This piece of legerdemain would
put all Eastern Magicians to shame But
enough of this.
In speaking of this National Convention
| The Examiner and Chronicle, u religious
paper published in New York City, of mod
GRAFTON and ability, and Independent in pol
itics, gives the following account OF its
origin, and of the parties who are to figure
in it and it tells also, of counter CON
vention of loyalists from the South, wh~
| do not favor this movement of the rebels
and their sympathizers
The most CONSPICUOUS fact about the proposed
Convention is that it has its origin, not in any
demand of the people, but in the interests of the
/ existing Administration, and the few members O
| Congress who have constituted themselves its pc
cuhar friends. 1t has been, to a very considerable
extent, formed and adopted by the Democratic
party, and very generally condemned by the lead
and the presses of the great Union party of Az
country and so far as the Northern States are con
cerned, il undoubtedly finds its most earnest dvo
Gates and promoters in that multitudinous swarm
of offce-holders who are dependent for place anC
emolument upon the will of the President and his
Cabinet This is feature in the movement which
is always offensive, and most justly offensive Il
patriotic minds. The machinery Of politics is al
all times, run too much for the promotion of perso
nal interests. Great zeal and activity in carrying
an election, or getting up convention, TOO com
monty mean an earnest desire to obtain or TO keel
some place of emolument or honor, or to secure
some other personal end. And when, as in a case
like this,a great national movement Is naugurateC
by the holders Of Office and the possessors of pow
er, it is very properly regarded with peculiar dis
trust by patriotic minds.
Another feature of this movement is the favor
with which it is received by the whole population
of the South that were lately in rebellion. They
hail it with one accord the means Of their resto
ration to power in the national councils. The
Southern Unionists, on the contrary-the men whC
never submitted TO the rebellion, but kept the
loyalty at every sacrifice through the gloomes
hours OF the strife-look upon this Convention
without approval. Many of them have shared IL
the patronage of the Government, but knowing a!
they do the spirit of those from whom they hay,
suffered so much, they will not be induced 10 JON
in a movement that is designed to restore them t,
power without guarantees or restrictions. They
therefore, have issued a call for another Conven
tiOn-a convention OF loyal Southern men-tomee
in September, This call is signed By many OF tht
leading representatives Of the Union cause in eY
cry Southern State unless it be South Carolina ant
what ever else it may mean, it plainly shows tina
its authors do not regard the other Convention
with favor,