New-York tribune., 1867-06-26
SpEdKJNG ,SPECTERS.

SPEAKING SPEC1ERS.
One of the most respectable phantOms in all
history is that of the elder Hamlet-a ghost, if
we may believe his son, good for thousand
pounds, a considerable pile of cash, If we take
into account the difference between the ancient
and modern values of money. The peculiarly
of this venerable apparition was that 1t had
tongue, and could express itself IN lnteliigiDie
language, whereas we know that the koIhan
ghosts could only squeak and gibber. Samuel
it is true, seemed to talk; yet 1t has never
been proved that the caballStlc ola lady OF
Endor did not add ventrilOquism TO her
other accomplishments. But the ghosts
of modern days. especially those OF
the Democratic persuasion, which restAessly
promenade, at times, up and down the Green
Mountains, when they came together on the
DIST of June, A. d., 1867, at Montpelier, VT,
really did nothing but talk, or rather scOid, and
il was only by the greatest good luck that they
did not proceed to rapping (on each others
pates) and to knocking each other down. Ihe
gathering was called "The Democratic state
" Convention and the Town Hall OF Mont
peler was the scene of its performances, the pri-
mary meetings being held, we presume, here ana
there in the different cemeteries OF the STATE
A more truculent, dissonant, and contradictory
congregation of departed and returnd spirits
never disturbed the solitude OF the tarH noun
tains None of them rode goats but most OF
them rode hobbies, and would not be dis
mounted without screaming protest. gentle
manly shade, by the name-the fealfnl name
of Cain-a name homicday suggestive-fell
out with a brother walker, designated as Smith,
We do not know the teterrimd cdusd, and 1t
was not probably of the least consequence; we
only know that, after a brisk interchange OF
acrimonious epithets some of the spirits sided
with Cain, and the moety went over to Smith.
This disembodied delegate pitched into the other,
and the battle became royal. 1t is dreadful
to think that those only apparently quick can
be so quick tempered. As for speaking 1t
was, if we may say so, drug. To save tlme'
possibly, half-a-dozen orators emitted their
sentiments mt once, and each expressed most
unfavorable opinion of the other. Nothing
could have saved the roof of the budlng-no
doubt uninsured against such dangers-if a
politic and peace-making delegate had not hap
ply suggested Dnncrln OF at once went the
whole company To test the taste OF terrestrial
loavcs, and the flavor of earthly fishes. and to
compare those articles of diet with the
rations allowed in the celestial or,
may be. the internal regions. We grieve
TO say that they came back as perturbcd rs they
went away, and began TO pass dyspcphc reso-
lutions, abusing the war ('' the result of North
"ern aggression upon Southern rights'), and
blowing up the taxes, rs if the assessors ever
visited them in their earthly retreats. The
harmony of a common ill-humor for some time
made quite a pleasing discord but after dry
but unanimous dig at Z" the present license
claw (as if ghosts ever took blttcrs), the
old animosity between Mcssrs. Cain and Smith
broke out with reduplcated violence. The
shady delegates could bear it no longer. They
preferred 10 return TO the peace and serenity
of the sepulchcr They were not accustomed
TO such heat and noise in their cold and silent
retreats. They adjourned leaving Mcssrs. Cain
and Smith ieither To belabOr each other all
night or to exhale like he rest OF tho party
We have made these brief and hasty memo
randa for the benefit of coming historians. In
the year Of our Lord 1867 Gf this old world
shall last until them, there Will be riots among
the antiduarians anent the existence of n
Democratic party in Vermont in the year 1861
The files of this newspaper will be appealed
TO; and we desire here distinctly 10 state TO
our future friends, and to all pcruscs rs yet
unborn, that there seemed to be Democratic
Convention in Montpelier, VI "a chief town OF
one of the Northern States, on the 2lst OF
June, 1sG7-that the motions were natural, the
appearances lively, and the debates vivacious-
that nothing came, however of the Convention
except an incomprehensible noise and con-
fusion, and the nomination for office of few
persons not constitutionally eligible because no
longer living. A bother now, this Convention
will soon become the most mysterious OF
myths. Being ourselves of practical turn, we
desire to have nothing more 10 do with 1t.