Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-08-29
Southern Newspapers On tn
PhiladelphiR Convention.

Southern Newspapers on the
Philadelphia COnvcnston.
While most of the Southern newspapers
approve of the object of the Philadelphia
Convention-so disrupt and destroy the pcliti-
cal power of the Republican party-they yet
discaim at once and earnestly any sstee r,ens
with the resolutions adopted by the Phila-
delphia sham. That our readers may sec
what these rebel newspapers think of the
performances of the Johnson's and Weed 3
pocket convention, We give below q variety of
extracts from Southern newspapers
"A single remark, however, We do not
: consider ourselves at liberty. in candor and
honor, to refrain from making. 1t is this !:
That, in 80 far as the address assumes that
the people of the South are responsible for
the war, that the war wac a rebellion, that
they are disposed to acknowledge culpability
and contritiOn, that the Federal Government
acted in self defense and under the Consti-
tuition, Sc. ~, It assumes ,chos the people of the
South do not believe or feel to be trse, and
s0hat, therefore, :hey haze no thought of od-
nnitting.-R,ehnond Wing.
The President has formally adopted the
new party as the Administration party, and
has placed himself at its head, with the
assurance of all the aid and support which
his great Office commands. This party is now
fighting great battle, and, if it triumphs,
the best fruits of it's victories will be ours.
If, in the fall elections, they crush and ami
hllate the reuoI,lfionisfs, the honor and polii-
| teal rig hts of the South will be forever Sc
cure, and We shall once more become the peers
and equals of the triumphant section in every
department of the government. '-Richmond
Times.
We cannot see that any regard has been
paid in its (the platform's) construction tc
the convictions and senslbilities of the
Southern people. Prac-
ticsily speaking, we Lave no idea that the
Confederate debt will ever be paid, but it is
not for US to repudiate it as invalid. The
North may forbid payment, circumstances
may put it out of our power ever to redeem
the obligation, but it is shameful for US to say
that it was not legally and morally contracted
We accept the United States debt, grievous
as it is. and contracted by prodigate ex
penditure in the conquest of the South but
our pledges to bear our share of that debt
VIII not deserve to be believed in, if in the
same breath we repudiate another debt &c
which we pledged our faith with equal sin.
cerlty and much more fervor."
:" We recognize most cordially the con.
sentative spirit and objects of the convention
and we believe that the effect of its delibera.
tons will be immensely to strengthen tht
gleat popular movement which is destined
soon to overwhelm utterly the Radical fac
ton. If it accOmplishes this good end, il
will not have met 10 vain. We have no votes
and all we can do is to look on quietly, wish
ing success to the conservative phalanx, bu
declining, at the same time, to ratify what i
not true, or to reward, by ovations, our Owl
very Improbable servants, who have pai(
half fare to Philadelphia, and done less thar
half work.
"Mr. Raymond, who voted for the Freed
"man's Bureau bill and the civil rights bill
, - seems to have been the ruling spifit of thu
, 80 Philadelphia convention. What could b.
expected of such man but q platform o
- rotten timber? The result is that not on.
:" word is said IN the resolutions against tn
Infamous Freedmen's Bureau. "-Richmont
Examiner.
That huge fanfaronade wherewith tn
, Philadelphia convention was gotten unde
way-the footing of horns and the pa yipl
OF Dixie, the rising Of delegates and che 7
for Hail Columbia, the ciap-trap of III
Chairman, and the entrance of South Caro-
: lima and Massachusetts, cheek by jowl. Thi
latter little theatrical touch IN especial
fearfully after the fashion of A. Ward, show
} man, and his Betsy Jane "
- Fernando Wood, who this day can carry
If you put him on his mettle, the great cit
of New York against New England ]; an
Clement l.. Nallandigham, who suffered al
but martyrdom tor his principles, was exile
because be would not help throttle the South
and is going to his home In Dayton, wher
the panels of his house door show to this yer
day the mark of tyrannys musket-betts an
axes.
"Ah gentlemen, il will take good dea
of horn-blowing to drown the sound of thos
r footfalls-the footballs of men who, whel
q Doolittle and Couch had us by the throa,
6 dared to stand up, in the very face of des
potisn, to plead for mercy, tor moderation
. and for justice-to plead and to suffer tor u
# and Tor our sakes. = Georgia Constitution
4 dllsf.
t =" Mr.. Raymond and Mr.. Weed seem {
h have an irrepressibe horror of Vallandighau
1t is a good thing to restore the Union, the
: think but TO restore 1t In company with
man who never did anything to break it u
Is too much for their sensitive nature. 1t
fine thing TO revive the Constitution, the
declare but TO revive it with the assistant
9 of man " no never violated it, is most il
n toerabIe, and not to be endured Ne
n Orleans Crescent.
is We have reason to believe that many
that crowd which heralded with acclamatio
the lowering of the dignity of the State
u South Carolina, through one of her chose
e delegates and her chief Executive, but fe
VI years ago bore through the streets of NORTH
" ern cities the flaming torches of Wild
~ Awake associations, and we sadly fear thu
J. a people whose enthusiasm is excited an
!" whose allegiance is momentarly gained
n such exhibitions as Gov. Orr's, may desc
their newly found friends as soon as Radios
&c ingenuity may invent a patriotic display
=, flags and e-works to catch their tickle fal
a. cies. If such things have become necessal
81 to arouse the instincts OF patriotism end ju
er tice in the Northern mind in the cast
le characters for the display, the selection
&c the leading man from the South could ha
al fallen upon no man who would enjoy
OF empty honors more than Gov. Orr, nor who
P ridiculous exhibition of himself would ha
u carried less modification to the people
u large of his section Columbus (Ga Su
IS The Philadelphia convention has a
journed. We are glad of it, and sadly regr
the necessity which required tito be hel
When We read the proceedings We feel Iii
I'd asking the question, Is this the feast
be which we have been invited =
90 "We repeat then. that because we we
2 defeated in the late struggle tina, is no reas
ne We should stultify ourselves and belle all o.
E. former sentiments by reputation of Sta
b. sovereignty and secession. The South yiel
i allegiance to the Government. She reco
" nizes the Union as "one and indivisiblt
." She neither desires or proposes secession,