The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-08-14
From our Special Correspondent en- roote to Phila-
delphia.
WASHINGTON, August IL, 1866.

WASHINGTON, August IL, 1866.
Washington is exceedingly dull. Even
the delegates to the National Convention
have hurried Off to Philadelphia, only q
few remaining. Mr.. Randall, the secre-
tary of the Executive Committee of the
National Union party, as you know. has
taken up stakes and translated himself,
bag and baggage, to the City of Brotherly
Love, so called and the delegates to the
Convention seem to be initiating his eX-
ample. As far as ! have been able to
learn anything of the temper of the dele
gates to the Convention, / am well satisfied
that it's deliberations will be harmonious
and patriotic. There will be no ultraiSm,
l believe or if there is, it will be frowned
down.
l believe there is really very little ap-
prchension among the delegates as to the
difficulty of harmonizing the deliberations
of the Convention. There is some little
apprehension of a observation-disclosures to
that end being attributed to the "Loyal
Leagues" and Roughs Of Philadelphia.
But measures have been taken to insure
order. ! infer from Forney's Occasional
letter in this days Chronicle thot nc does
not believe there will be a row. Philadel-
phia is cold, selfish, and fanatical. Love
of money is q strong feature of the public
character of its people. The Convention
will bring several hundred thousands Of
dollars to their Golfers. Therefore the
business community is anxious to preserve
order. The Republican party, judging from
Forney's views, is DESTROYS OF making capt.
tai out OF the permission to the National
Union men to hold their Convention quiet
ly. He proclaims that Mayor McMi-
chael has taken steps to secure order,
and that the Convention will be allowed to
begin and 90 on, and to adjourn without
molestation. Not that they deserve
it-oh, no.; but, says this very devil at
false prctences, because "Me people of
Philadelphia are too deroted to the Union to
aUo,o themselves 10 be guilty of initiating the
rebels IN onything." "Our record is made
up" he says, "and if Andrew Johnson
intended to force civil war in the loyal
States by calling these traitors and Cop
pcrheads into communion in Philadelphia,
he will be mistaken" This forbearancc is
from no merit of the Conventionists, but
from the respect for law and order of the
revolutionary Republicans and that city of
riots and murders-of killing innocent
people and burning down churches-Phila-
delphia. Yet Forney may be playing for
the row for he interlalds all his ASST
RANGES of quiet with the most ~incendlary
stimulants to the passions OF the moo.
"The fact" he says, L" that men who re-
Gently led the rebel armies, and aided and
~connived in the killing of hundreds and
thousands of our best beloved, are TO
assemble here for the purpose OIL cooiiy
preparing TO resume the control OF the
government they sought to destroy, and In
this work are to DO helped by q recreant
President and the Copperhead leaders who
opposed his election and traduced his cha
racter, Is naturally calculated to excite
the strongest resentment, to use no harsher
word, of Union men and women" This,
with other sensational appeals, such as
"the daily assaults upon our colored popu-
lation, and the horrible details of the New
Orleans massacre" are in overwhelming
contrast with his weak appeals for order,
and therefore amount to little short Of
~instigations to riot and b%loodshed. If
there is no riot, the world will be under
no obligation to this Mr.. Forney therefor.
But there will be no riot. The proper
measures are taken, and l believe that the
real interests Of Radicalism are against
such an event, while the money. loving
merchants Of Chestnut street are most de.
. cidedly against any such thing. cit won't
pay"
may say that ! have learned enough
Of the disposition Of the southern delegate.
70 satisfy me that they will act wisely AND
honorably. They will not be parties t.
any act of standardization, while they
will give the most satisfactory assurances
by speeches and votes, Of their loyalty t.
the Constitution and their anxiety to re
store the union Of the States upon q foot
ing Of entire equality, according to tn
demands Of that compact among th'
States.