The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-01

From the Times.
Great importance is attached in certain quar-
tiers to the gathering which is to be known in
radical history as "The Southern Loyalists'
Convention" The opponents of the Admin
lstration have been busy for weeks, in Or
ganizing delegations from tie North and
West to welcome and sustain those who
are represented as pre-eminently the custo-
dians of loyalty in the Southern States. The
Northern supporters of the Congressional
policy of disunon are to muster at Philadelphia
in full force, that they may sympathize with
their brethren from the South, and demonstrate
to the country the existence of Southern party
in their favor. 1t will not be amiss, therefore,
to watch the proportion which the South will
bona fde contribute TO the Convention, and
SO to test the genuineness OF the pretentions
which arc urged III Its behalf. The names at
taehed to the invitation as originally issued
were not calculated to produce very favorable
impression. since some of them cannot pretend
even to be residents of the South, while others,
like Hamilton, are VIGOROUSLY destitute OF
character and standing among the Southern
people.
The anxiety of the radicals to insure q numeri-
cally strong attendance has been another sus-
picious circumstance. 1t has looked like a con-
sciousness of the unreal nature of the affair as
an expression OF any noticeable element in
| Southern society; the Northern delegations
| being relied upon to make up by their numbers
| and talk for the lack of either from Southern
| sources. 1t shows the means that have been
| resorted to by the handful OF radicals who GEN.
| tire in Alexandria to get up what purports to be
| q deleg alton from Virginia. The farce of the
| nomination is exposed, and the fraud involved
in 1t established. OF thorough radicals, such as
the judicial Underwood and the delectable
| Bolts, Virginia cannot produce hundred all
| told, and considerably less than half of this
number have arrogated to themselves the right
| 10 choose delegates to the "Loyalists' Conven-
| tion.n
This might be tolerated, perhaps, perhaps,
| If those who have been named as delegates
| were willing to appear in that capacity. But
| our correspondent informs us that in this re-
speCt the published list is a piece of knavery.
The respectable names upon it are names not
| of radicals, but Of Union men, who are sup
porters OF the movement already inaugurated.
| A letter appears from one gentleman who so
| declares over his signature, and others are men,
| toned who were at Philadelphia during the
| recent proceedings, and are hearty in their
| support OF the President. Taking Virginia as
an Illustration, then, we incline to the opinion
| that "the Southern Loyallsts' Convention" will
prove as fictitious display, so far as the South
is concerned, as anything gotten up under the
auspices of Mr. Hamilton might be expected TO
| be- A few days will enable us to silt the wheat
from the chatf Meanwhile this exposure of the
sham attempted in Virginia is rich in sugges-
4 tiVeness.
Another letter appeared in the Times of yester-
day, to which we invite the attention of our
radical contemporaries. 1t came from our New
Orleans correspondent, whose reports in rela-
ton to the riot have been accepted by them as
the best received from that city. Having in
doIsed the trustworthiness of the writer on the
general subject, they cannot well undervalue
his testimony in the present instance And what
are the leading points of his communication ?
| In the first place he deprecates the ridiculous
| exaggeration and gross Misrepresentation"
| which have been witnessed In connection with
the riot. He lays the bame-reasonably we
| think-upOn two classes of eXtremists:khe eS-
| treme radicals of the Dostie stamp. Having q
counterpart in the inconsid erable body ofSouth-
ern extremists whom the war has not driven of
the stage.
| The radicals abuse the South. insult the
Southerners, and laud the negroes as the supe-
rior people; the ire.eaters, in return, ostracize
the Northerner, and resent his efforts to obtain
negro suffrage. Both classes are nuisances.
And TO these classes, and these alone may the
riot be attributed. Both continue actively at
work. The radicals declare that the illegal
| Convention which was the immediate occasion
| Of the trouble shall yet be held; and the fire
| eaters while indicting the conVentionists shield
! the police, by whom lives were Wantonly sacri-
+ feed The great body of the people are united
| in opposition to the radicals and in coHdemna-
I tion Of the Mayor and his mlnions. Upon this
Y head our correspondents statement Is in har
| mony with General Sheridans REPORTS Thus
| corroborated, It may be accepted as conclusive
And 1t sutioes TO vindicate the South generally
and the city of New Orleans In parricplar, ffom
the accusations of which these deplOrable occur
4 rences have been the pretext.
Passing from Louisiana TO Missouri we meet
the extremists in another aspect At New Or
0 leans the radicals are an jnsgnjfcarJ minority