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

bUbbOCk II native OF Massachusetts, has
served several times in the Legislature and
been repeatedly elected to Offices of trust and
importance. During the war he evinced
Jealous and praiseworthy interest in the over
throw of the Rebellion and the suppression of
reasonable overtures from the North. He was
this year elected Governor ofthe Commonwealth
of Massachusetts,, to succeed John A. Andrew,
BANKS is a self-educated man, who has risen
by the exercise of an indomitable perseverance
to the position of one of the first statesmen in
the country, and to an enviGble rank in the
army. He commenced life as a newspaper
editor He has studied law, but never practised
very extensively. He has been chosen TO both
Houses OF the Legislature of Massachusetts and
otiicisted as Speaker. From 1853 to 1857 he was
Representative in Congress- During his second
term, from 1855 TO 1857, he presided over the
National House of Representatives with great
ABILITY and rare success. In 1857 he had ma
Jorlty.of twenty-lour thousand for the position
of Governor of Massachusetts.
He was reelected Governor for a second term
In 1868, and again in 1869. During the Rebellion
he served with distinction as a Maior.General
of Volunteers, principally in the Department of
the Gulf. With his administration of the affairs
of New Orleans. and the great Red River Expe-
dltion, the world will always be familiar
SUMNER, BUTLER, and JOSIAH QUINCY need no
comment in this connection.
EMERSON is poet and scholar of great abDity
and as master of intricate and refined mental
philosophy stands unapproached and uuap-
proachable. He is a native OF Massachusetts,.
and has devoted the greater portion of his lite
to the promulgation of his peculiar and original
in mi lnct t1roC To %
take very prominent part in the Convention,
but will give weight to its deliberations by his
presence.
PARSONS is the celebrated Law Professor Of
Harvard University. His father was Chief JUS
tice OF the State, and he himself was born and
bred to the profession, in which he has few
superiors. AS a commentator and lecturer he
is clear, precise, and brilliant.
HOLMES, the "Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table" is skilled in surgery, in poetry, and in
puns. Notwithstanding his great popularity
as a writer, he bends himself to his daily
task in the lecture-rooms of the Harvard
Medical School.
WHITING is one OF the most accomplished
jurists in the United States, and is well known
by his legal pamph ats published during the war
ANDREW is the popular Ex-Governor who was
instrumental In giving Massachusetts such a
noble record during the war. He is talked of
for United States Senator.
BOUTWELL,, WILSON, ALLEY, DAWES HOOPER,
BALDWIN, WAsHBURN, are some of the radical
Congressman whose political course has been so
decided that they were not requested to enter
the Wigwam Convention, armin-arm with Gov
ernor Or, of South Carolina. Their records are
known to the people of the nation. and call for
no comment in Ills place.
WHITTIER the "drab-skirted" poet OF world
wide renown, though the tenets of his religious
faith taught him to shun the din of battle was
the leader of the hearts of the loyal millions
throughout the war. His lyrics were inspired
by the same martial and liberty loving spirit
that dictated the charming ballads of the middle
ages. Now, in the interests of liberty and peace
he comes to Philadelphia to welcome the true
men of the South.
LINCOLN is the u1bane and radical Mavor of
Boston. His name brings weight TO the com.
mittee OF welcome.
LOWELL lectures Harvard students on the
Belles-Lettres OF Spain and Italy, and devotes
his spare hours to noting down in barbarously
spelled rhymes the vagaries OF Mr.. Hosea Bige :
low. He is not politician, although he gives
tone to the politics of the Atlantic Monthly and
North american ReUieW.
TRAIN is not the Train, but he is a brother OF
the lrrepressible George Francis, although of a
much clearer political complexion.
To follow the list above given from BEGINNING
to end would fill all the space allotted TO this
lengthy article. Suffice it to say, that never in
the history of the country was Massachusetts
or any other State represented by a delegation
of such sterling patriots and accomplished
scholars.
New Jersey.
Governor Ward has appointed a delegation
to the Convention, requesting them to assure
that body that while the people of his State
desire an early adjustment of all causes of
difference, they are firm in the conviction that
treason should be made odIous, and that the
work of reconstructing States or the Union can.
not be safely left to traitors and their sympa-
thizers."
Since the appointment by the Governor, the
Republican State Central Committee has an
pointed a delegation of one hundred from each
OF the five Congressional Districts OF the State
We give the delegation appointed by the Gov
ernor, which is as tollows:-
DELEGATES.
Charles s. olden, James NJ. Quimby
Fred I; frelmghuysen Thomas z, Carpenter
Richard s. Field John l.. N. Stratton
WI liam A. Newell George II. Chetwood
John II. Starr John Linn,
Mai Gen r. McAlllster, ANIL Dodd
Alexander g. Cattel, Denning Duer,
Bpniamin laV Rania ami Acton