New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-06
THE TWIN CHERRIES.

When Messrs. Randall, Dixon & Co. issued a call
for National Convention to meet next month in
Philadelphia they seemed to invite and expect that
said Convention should embody the sentiment and ex-
press the predominant convictions of the Union party
of that Union party which stcrnly resisted aud sub
dued the Rebellion-of that Union party which NOM
mated Lincoln and Johnson and elected them over
Mcclellan and Pendleton. We said at once-Ihs
call is a fraud its authors do not expect nor desire
the attendance of delegates who shall faithfully rep
resent the Union party: they desire and expect to
carry off mere sewage of this party composed
mainly Of eholderS) and unite it with the Demo
cratic Mcclellan party of 1864 thereby securing to
the latter the government of the country. I'M"
statement was denounced and stigmatized; but few
DAYS have suliced TO demonstrate us truth. Inc
Union party Of 1865 disowns this Conyeniion-re.
pudiates the authority Of Randall Go. TO
call it-refuses to attend or countenancc it.
Not ten of the 80 members of Con-
gress Chosen by the Unionists Of 1SGi-5
give this Convention any sort Of countenance; while,
on the other hand, their adversares have, to a man,
made haste to ratiy and second the CALL and TO urge
their party to DO fully and ably represented therein.
Forty Of their chosen representatives and Gen. L. III.
Rousseau have united in this recommendation; and
we presume the halfdozen whose names do not ap-
pear were absent from Washington, and will sign on
their return. Thus the Randall Convention will be
essentially gathering Of those who resolved at Chi
cago in 1854 that the War for the Union had been
a failure, and nominated accordingly The journals
which upheld the Rebellion to the last are nearly all
urging that =" the South shall be fully and strongly
represented; 80 we shall have at Philadelphia full
Convention of those who maintained the Rebellion,
and those who insisted that it should not and could
not be put down. but very small percentage of those
who insisted that it could aud should be. Meantime
the cooling and billing OF the predestned compatrots
of 1868 goes on with ever-increasing fervor and
reciprocal delight
The Tammany Society celebrated the Fourth by
dinner, whereat Mayor Hoffman presided, and Messrs
Andrew johnson and William II. Seward were the
foremost invited guests. Both responded lovingly,
urging the restoration Of The States but never limiting
that their loyal faithful Coored people ought to be at
all considered in such restoration Their exRebels
are all to be restored to power (o which we do not
obcct); but the -Four Millions of their people who
contributed One Hundred and Eighty Thousand SOL
diers to the Union armies and regiment to the
Rebel, are TO be tramplcd under foot Restora-
ton" for them means Slavery; is it wonder that
neither they nor their friends are enraptured at the
prospect
Gov. Seward stood through forty honorable years
the consistent conspicuous determined, detested adj
versary of the influences which have borne sway in
Tammany Hall. Yet he writes to the sachems as
though only lovers quarrel had momentarly es-
tranged them. Hear him
"Ihsys bad some differences In ny time with the Tam.
many Society but long ago forgot them e whom recalled
the fact that the Society has failed 70 observe and
honor the anniversary OF National Independence and the
further fact that during the recent civil war tho Tammlny
Society sent its 10 light for the Union and with
Ing fidelity heartily supported the Federal Govern meat In It's
struggles with sedon. In view OF these facts and q the
noble principles nov avow 3D. hail the Tammany Society
Union Lea que"
There were members Of the Tammany Society
who fought in the Union, as there were others who
fought in the Rebel armies; but it is mol trr that
o tho Tammany Society, with answering fidelity,
heartily supported the Federal uOyvl.','-eas il its
struggles with sedon." In the darkest hours Of orr
contest, Tammany Hall reelected Ben. Wood to Con
gross knowing that he never gave. and never rOaId