The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-06
The Press on the Conservative Ma.
tiOnal Convention.

| tiOnal Convention.
We present this morning q few extracts
from papers hailing from different sections
upon the subject Of the proposed National
Convention in Philadelphia. We do not re-
produce these for the purpose ofreiniorcing
our own views, but rather to the end that
our people may look at the matter calmly,
and decide for themselves whether it
would be best to take part in the dclibera-
tons of the Convention. The first extract
we present is from Grecley's paper, and
shows clearly with what bitter hatred the
Radicals regard the proposition:
From the New York Tribune, July4.
All disguise is now thrown of, and the
Randall Boilers Convention is to be made
respectable in the numbers represented by
q general attendance of the late supporters
for President of George b. Mcclellan and
those Of Jefferson Davis. The States re-
Gently in revolt are to be fully represent
cd-that is, their eX-rcbels are to be; if
| their loyalists were To send delegates they
would not be admitted. And the entire
Sham Democracy is going in, as the Wash
ington Address clearly indicates.
! Mr.. Webster said in ls48 that if the
| Wing party were to 60 over to the Free
Soil, it would be the Wing party still
only with Martin Van Buren, at the head
of it. That which Randall's call will ga
thcr at Philadelphia will be simply the old
slavery -championing, ncgro-crushing Sham
Democracy, with very few renegade Re-
publicans serving as decoys. "Down with
the Niger up with the Rebel" will be
| its war-cry. If any one walks into the
trap who does not belong there, he cannot
reasonably claim that it was adroitly set.
"Thc wayiaring man." if not fool, may
keep out of it.
From the Memphis Tenn Bulletin.
THE PHILADELPHIA CoNvENTION.-Rich-
mond newspapers, unlike those Of Men,
phis, approve the proposition to hold a con-
vcntion Of the Presidents friends in Phla-
delphia. They assent to the disruption of
all old parties, that new, undistinguished
by scctionalisn, may guide the destinics
of the country. If we fail in this, worst
results of rebellion have not yet been en-
dured. Give Stevcns's party undoubted
power, and these States will be reduced
to condition of pitiablc degradation. To
defeat Stevens's plans and perfect unity
of all clements of opposition is indispensa-
bic to an avoidance of these calamiticS.
Moreover, rightfully or wrongfully, sec
tionalsm is inseparably associated with
the word Democracy. Sectionalism in
partisanship must henceforth be the great
est of evils to the South. Miscellaneous as
it was, and destructive to all elements of
social order and prosperity, at this hour,
! impoverished as we are, we can have no
reason for alliance with scCtonalism. Our
true policy leads us to political partisan
association, at least for the present, with
those who sustain Johnson's administra-
ton. We may differ from Doolittle and
his associates on many questions of con-
stitutonal right, but common prudence
impels us to promote purposes contem-
plated by the Philadelphia Convention.
There will be organized an Andrew john
son party. With itsfortuncs rest our own.
4 sectional party organized at Phila-
delphia, or one suspected of sectionalism,
that exists in Democracy, insures the tri-
umph of sectional radicalism.
From the Augusta (Gs.) Chronicle, Julys.
NATIONAL UNION CoNvENTIoN.-Thco OBJ
icct of the Convention, as we understand the
call, is to organize u great Constitutional
Union party for the preservation of the
Constitution from the rude assaults which
are being made upon it by destructiOniStS
of the North, and the enforcement of the
rights of the people in all sections Of the
country.
In this view of it, we approve the move
ment, and gladly herald it as a significant
indication from the conservatives of the
North of their determination to uphold and
support the President in his patriotic pur-
pose to restore the union of the States and
the rights of the South under the COnsti-
tuition and laws.
From the Colombia Is. c. Ph,enix, J4ly >.
TIE OLD PARTIEs.-We are not dis
posed to enter into any mere party poll
tics, or induce others, by any word of sug-
gcstion, to do so. The call for the conven-
ton Of all true Union men has, however,
provoked some discussion, where the old
party issues are still kept up, as to how
they will be affected and how they will
act under the cumstanccs. We con-
slider that all the friends of union, har-
mony, and peace should unite and be fully
represented in the approaching Convcn-
ton which has been called to meet in
Philadelphia next month, whatever may
have been their old party affiliations
Wing, Democrat, or Republican. These
old parties never had before them the
grave issues now presented to the people
of this country, and the only object should
be to take the "nearest Cut" to rcstora-
ton and peace.
From the Norfolk VA Day Book, July !.
This influence will promote the conser-
vative and Democratic forces of the North,
and they will ultimately be marshalled in
compact form, which will prove terrible
political engine when brought to bear with
all its organized power against the unsa-
tiated radical element which is now tri-
umphant. Its purpose will be to restore
the Union-now rent asunder in "broken
and dismcmbercd fragments y; and if we
are TO believe there is conservatism at
the north, this battle cry cannot fail to
unite ii as one man, and wake 1t up as
giant refreshed with wine.
The following is, we believe, from
Georgia paper. We have forgot what pa
per We clipped it from
1t must also be equally plain to all, that
unless third party can be formed OF the
moderate, sober, conservative men Of these
TWO parties north, and Of the same class in
the south, the country will still remain
divided and in ruined condition.
From the Raleigh IN. C. Sentinel.
TIE NATIONAL CONVENTION. of
the advantages to the country a large in
harmonizing the discordant elements of
the day that are likely to ensue from the
| proposed National Convention At Philadel-