Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-17

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full detail of its proceedings, and your new:
editor has doubtless given eOpious accounts
Of its personnel from the excellent reports IN
the Tribune ahd Press. Let me call your at
ten,ion for m1meut to The event, par er-
ceiieace,of the days proceedings-the read
ing of Mr.. Vallaudigham,s letter. When
| Col. Groesbeck offered it, the chairman, Mr..
Doolittle, declared that il could only be read
| by unanimous consent. He paused. Do
hear an objection ," said he, evidently
anxious to gag Mr.. ValIandigham down. 81
object" cries fat, long bearded delegate
from in front Of the stand, who responds to
all appeals to Withdraw the objection by
sturdily shaking his head. Read, read y
rings out from every quarter of the house,
but the objecting member stsnds out. Then
Reverdy Johnson gets the hsor and moves
the suspension Of the rule to allow the let
ter to be read. The motion is carried almost
unanimously, amid a whirlwind of ap
plause. The Secretary reads the letter, and
every sentence was cheered with enthusi-
asm. And it was not the fact Of his with
drawaI that the Convention cheered. but the
man and the name. When the Secretary
read the signature of the letter CLEMENT
L. VALLANDIGHAM," there rose shout
fercer and higher and louder than any of
the day.
The result is & substantial victory for Mr..
yallandigham. Had he gone into the Con-
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he might have been elected. As it now
stands he he has been recognized as member
Of the Contention ) he has receirsd his ticket Of
admission ]; he has tkscndorsement Of the De-
nocratie delegation. iron. Ohio he l7as cheered
and chesred again ty the masses at the Wig
tgGHs he is the master af the situation ana the
hero as t7eit as The martyr Of the occasion. HIS
right in the Convention has been recogniz
ed, and his Withdrawal has been purely
voluntary. The leaders Of the Convention
are cursing iercely about it, and declaring
that i. would have been better to have got
him into the Convention, if only for the
purpose of kicking him out.
THIS MN Who Bun TIE CONVENTION.
Less :han half-a-dozon men run this Con
vention. They are the set Of lick spittles
who have encouraged Mr.. johnson in his
desertion. They are Randall, Doolittle
Cowan, Blair, aud Browning. Richmond,
Weed, Raymond, Senteg, Campbell AID |
Train are promiuen. in the lobbies, and |
pull the local wires-these men manage the |
convention and direct its action |
according to a programme previously ar
ranged. The Democrats and rebels, who |
are in the majority and have the power, |
keep out of sight, for reasons of policy, and |
are more than content to have these lack |
eys do their dirty work. And they do it.
The programme Is arranged with artistic |
skill, and Doolittle in the Chair, with his
abettors on the floor 10 carry it out to the |
letter. Every interruption is squelched by |
parliamentary jugg,ery, and all IS lovely 1
But notwithstanding this fair seeming front,
tho mass Of this Convention, both delegates
and spectators, are Copperheads of the vilest
description. A Heister ClyIner flag, bear
ing the name Of the CoPperhead candidate
Tor Governor of Pennsylvania, hangs nearly
in front of the Wigwam, and ali who ap-
proach it pass under that yoke. Among
The delegates the New York Nelos, of all the
New York papers, noess With the best and
-eadiest sale. Clymer's entrance into the
hall, and the mention of Ysllandigham's
name evoked the loudest applause of the
lay. The only Southern delegate who rose to
,peak in the cOnveution-a man from Geor-
yia, who was rumored in the reporters gal
cry to be the delegate from AudersonyilIe,
was cheered with such frantic enthusi
lsism that it was two or three minutes be-
ore he could make himself heard. The
ak among delegates run with equal
tr myth in the sane direction. l heard
Sew Jersey delegate declare that
he only men who had been
.ight in the war, were Southern rebels
Eulogy upon Vailendigham is the com
non talk. In fact the fuss raised over him
s c gigantic swindle upon the people. The
v hole Convention consists of men just like
aim and worse than he. They are less
,cnspicuousiy odicus than he, and they are
Kept in because the people don't know
hem. No man could sit an hour in that
Convention, and could witness the spectacle
We have described, and listen to the cheers
which greeted the names of Garres Davis
ieorgeS Hunter and John a. Gilmer, with
,ut being convinced that the two re-
men of the Convention were
,lement L. Vallandigham from the North,
md Jefferson Davis from the South. If
hird must needs be added to represent the
enegade U nionists, it s Andrew johnson, of
tennessee.