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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-08-20

a ANOTHER BLAIR SPEAKs.-Were it not for
the superior claims of Vallandigham, the mem
bers Of the Blair family might well be consid-
cred the most valuable coadjutors the Reprb-
lican party has outside of its own ranks. A
rebel Constitutional Convention has been for
some time in session at Annapolis, Maryland
The most noticeable thing done in the course
of its proceedings has beer to put in claim
for compensation for the emancipated slaves
belonging to citizens of that State. Montgom-
cry Blair addressed the patriotic assembly on
Wednesday last and discoursed on political
topics as follows:
He congratulated the members upon their
labors on the subject of reconstruction-giv-
ing the government of States to the people, to
whom it belonged, and correcting the abuses
put upon the southern States by miscreants
who held power at Washington. He then gave
q series Of disclosures which were sub3tantial-
ly those made by Binckley, and intimated in
the broadest terms that Riddle, Holt, Ashley,
COnover and Stanton were in q plot against
the President. He then charged Stanton with
having suggested the clause in the tenure of
office bill regarding cabinet ministers to Will
liams of Pennsylvania, its author in the
House; that afterwards in the cabinet Stanton
denounced the clause AS trenching on the
rights of the executive; that the President
then asked him to write tie veto, and that
duty was imposed upon Messrs. Seward and
Stanton. The entire speech is exactly in the
vein of Binckley's disclosures, and excites con-
siderable comment. fHysrk a...ff4er
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-08-20
union county Convention, !,

Tie Union Republicans of the County of Hancock
are lequested to send delegates TO Comfy Convcn-
tion to be held in the Court House at Ellsworth, on
"Wednesday, August 21st, 1867, at 10 oclock M. 10
nominate candidates for office as follows:-TwO Sem
ators Sheriff, Register of Deeds, County Attorney,
County Commissioner, County Treasurer.-and to
transact such other business as may properly come
befole the Convention. af .t.i' elf.E u .1rl5t j
The basis OF representation Is as follows:-Fach
town and organized Plantation in the County, that
cast any votes for Gov. Chamberlain in 1866 Is entt-
led to deegate and to additional delegate for
every fifty votesso cast for Chamberlain and Tor q
fraction OF thirty votes. This basis allOts the deleg
ates follows, viz:-Amherst2 Aurora J, Bluehill
s. Brookin3 Brooksvillc 8, Bucksport o. Castine :,
Cranberry Isle 1. Deer Isle 8, Dedham q Eastbrook
l. Eden 8, Ellsworth ", Franklin 4, Goldsboro 4,
Hancock B. Mariavil'e2 Mt. Desert 8, Orland5, Otis
Penobscot g. etgwick 4, Sullivan g. Surry 2, Tre
mont A, Trenton 9, Waltham ?, Swans Island |, We
roma 1, No ], No q. 1, No. SO. 1.
. Each town and plantatio musS lie represented by
its citizens. full attendance of delegates is
desirable. Per order,
t.44 LUCIIIUS A. EMERY, 4llf
PETER l.. HILL,
~" AMBROSE W. HARTMAN,
''t t.l.aH Union County Committee.
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Union Republican County COnven-
l5lus I ton.

The Union Republican voters of the County Of
Penobscot, are hereby notified to meet, by their del.
egates in Convention at the City Hall In Bangor on
Thursday the 2sd day ofAugust instant at 10 o'clock
A NJ, to nominate candidates for three Senator'S q
Clerk of the Courts, County AttoTnev, County Treas
urer, Register OF Deeds and County Commissioner,
and for the transaction OF any other business pro per-
ly before said Convention. =
The City of Bangor and each town and plantation
Is entitled to delegate for every 80 votes cast for
Gov Chamberlain at the last election additional
delegae an for attraction OFFS votes cast
an ad,l;tinnal deIeoate tNH-Ht t4f"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-08-20
CUMB ERLAND COUNTY
Second Senatorial District Convention.

The Union Republican voters Of Cumberland Coun-
ty are requested to send Delegates to Convention,
70 be holden in Portland. in the Suns OF TEMPER
ANCE HALL, on THURSDAY, Augast 22nd, 1861,
nominating candidates for Judge of Probate, Regis
ter of Probate, Register OF Deeis, County Commits
sioner, County Treasurer, and four Senators; and
year. ,N ta
Each city and town will be entitled to two dele
gates and an additional debate for every 20
cast or Joshua L. Chamberlain at the Guberna rial
election in 1866 and fraction of 40 votes will be
titled to an additional delegate,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-08-20

The County Committee will be In session at the
Hall Oh the day Of the Convention, al o'clock A.
nj. f r.l.N ....tr
The Chairmen of the several Town Committees are
requested forward the names Of their delegates to
the Chairman of the County Committee soon as
chosen.
Per Order of the County Committee fl'idofl
$50 8 JAMES F. MILLER, Chai man.
Portland, Aug. 8, 1867. d&wtd
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j. S. CHADWICK,
g. #. DILLINGHAM;,
j. W. PORTER,
.st UZIAS BLANCHARD.
H. w. DANFORTH,
Union Republican Co. Committee.
Republican Convention for Saga
6ahno Cnr,n.fv

udnOC OOuuUys
The Republican Voters of the County ofSagadahOc
requesie to send Delegates to Convention to be
held at MUso HALL. in Bath, on THURSDAY, Aug
ust 22d, 1867, IL o'clock fn the forenoon, for the
purpose ofnominatng County A, ,torney, one Sem
ator, County Treasurer, a County Commissioner,
Clerk of Courts Register of Deeds and for the trans
action of anv other business that may properly come
before said Convention -.fI L.
Every town entitled to delegate and for every
fifty votes cast or Gov Cony in 1864 one additional
delegate, and for fraction Of twenty-five more
votes another delegate
- ALBERT pEEEiRING, Republican
VIM. DULEY,
d. E. MARBLE, County
RI WHITNEY,
r. CARR Committee.
n JOS. W. WINTER,
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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-05

@ The Washington correspon
dent of the Cincinnati Gazette, thus
cautions soldiers against evolves in
sheep clothing" who go about the
country to defraud them:
Soldiers throughout the country
will do well to look out for parties
known to be travelling, representing g
themselves as sent from W ashington
with instructions to soldiers and claim
agents, regarding collection of ad-
ditional bounty, and also stating that
soldiers of 1861 are entitled to one
hundred and sixty acres of land.
The object Of these parties appear
to be to copy the names and dates,
and the number of the regiments,
and the officers signatures, as set
forth on the discharge paper. With
these data, forged applications for
pay are probably made out. Several
of these parties have been discovered
in Ohio and Indiana.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-05
Impeachment.

/ Leading papers, hitherto opposed
to impeachment, since President
Johnson's recent usurpations, have
come square cut in favor of i'm
parchment Among the most prom
inent of these may be cited the n. 7.
Tribune and the N. Y. Tgmes-the e
latter edited by Mr.. RAYMOND, one
of Mr.. Johnson's most active pro
moters of the celebrated Philadel-
phia Convention.
The Tribune, after enumerating
the Presidents offenses, says:
Where will this end2 The Presi-
dent means war. The country must
stand and fight, or be defeated
We believe anything possible of Mr..
johnson. His administration is a
record of deception, cunning, disloy-
alty-antagonism to the best inter
ests of the country. He has made
the administration of Buchanan re-
spectacle, by showing a degradation
to which even Mr. Buchanan could
not sink. He has betrayed his
friends; he has betrayed his country.
Nothing is left of his administration
but few miserable jobbers like
those who hang around him, and
few wretehed political adventurers
like Black The men who accept
contumely for his cause, like Seward,
Randall and Welles, he is impatient
to drive out of his Cabinet The
savage of Shara is not insensible to
the obligations Of friendship; but
even this no longer remains with
Mr.. johnson. We admonish the
people to prepare for stern and
high responsibility. It is nearly a
hundred days until Congress meets.
Till then we are powerless. We can
only bow to this dreadful tyranny
The President appealed to the coun-
try in his late message. We join
him in the appeal. Let our friends
organize everywhere. Let US make
the canvass upon the infamy of Mr..
Johnson's administration, and hay
ing defeated him at the ballot box,
we can prepare, through our Repre-
sentatives, to consider the best
course to be taken to punish him for
his crimes against the sovereign will
of the American people.
The Times, in discussing the same
subject, says:
Matters have gone too far to rem
der doubt or misapprehension reason
able. Mr.. johnson has entered up
on course which shuts out the last
chance of reconciliation, and renders
all compromise impossible. Vows
and protestations will serve him no
longer. Pretences Of compliance
with the law which he is trying to
obstruct, are no longer admissible.
His parrot talk about the Constitu-
ton is laughed at as shere nonsense
and hypocrisy. He stands revealed
an enemy not less of Congress and
its laws than of the country and its
peace. Wantonly, treacherously,
with no conceivable hope of success,
impelled only by needless malignity
and an insane ambition, he has re-
opened the quarrel in a shape which
renders his fate and the duty of the
party perfectly clear. AS
between the Executive and the peo-
pie represented by Congress, there
will now be neither the giving or
taking of quarter. Mr.. johnson has
the sword of disturber
and a usurper, and there can be
no further parley with him. i
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-05
@ Major 6 eneral Hitchcock.
United States Volunteers, has been
mustered out of the service.

~ Gov. Dennison, in his late
speech at New Lexington, thus
tersely dlsposes of the supposed f.
nancial issues of the present contest
in Ohio. He says:
First. The public debt was Great.
ed in the defense of the nation
against the rebellion. 1t will be
paid precisely according to the terms
in which we agreed to pay it. No
part of it will be repudiated under
any pretext. Neither the conscience
nor the judgement of the nation will
sanction any unjust or dishonest
treatment of a public creditor.
Second. AS the debt was made
under the authority of the loyal
people of the country, they will in
trust only those who showed their
opposition to the rebellion with pow
er to provide the means for its pay
ment
Third. The country is not insen
sible to the efforts that will be made
to impose upon it payment for slaves
emancipated under the acts of Con
gress and the Presidents procla-
nation, of which we are warned by
the action of the Democratic party
in Maryland and Kentucky. The
people will never consent for. such
payments to be made, and will reso-
lutely prevent the return of the
Democratic party to the control OF
the Government, because, as well as
for other reasons, of their want of
confidence in the resistance of that
party, with its traditional proclivi-
ties for slavery, to the payment of
such claims.
Fourth. There is no distinct issue
before the country upon the fnan-
cial questions, and the majority of
the people. don't intend there shall
be until the pressing political ques-
tions are settled. Their first pur
pose is to secure the just results of
the war, by putting the control of the
rebel States in loyal hands, by eradi-
eating every vestage of slavery from
our institutions, national and State,
and by establishing universal politi,
cal equality, making the Republic,
what was intended by its trainers, a
nation of freemen, having no regard
TO race or color. the representative
of political justice and impartial lib
erty. When these objects shall be
accomplished, as we hope they
speedily may, financial questions, re-
lating to the public debt, the tariff,
taxes, and the like, will receive the
attention their Importance shall then
require. Until then, the people will
not be diverted from the responsible
lties of the hour.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-05
Grant Stands with the L0Val
Masses.

The following is the letter of Gen
Grant to the President, referred to BY
us last week. 1t proves the General t.
be with the loyal masses, the copper
head assertions to the contrary notwith
standing.
HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF U. S.,
WASHINGTON, August II, 1867.
HIS Ercellency, AnareaO johnson, Presi
dent y. s.,
SIR: l am in receipt of your order Of
this date directing me to appoint Gen
G. H. Thomas to the command of tn,
Fifth Military District; General Sheri
dan to the Department of the Missouri
and General Hancock to the Depart
ment of the Cumberland; and also youl
note of this date, .inclosing those in
structions, to carry into effect the in
closed order, saying: 81 would be
pleased to hear any suggestions you
may deem necessary respecting the as
siguments to which the order refers.
1 am pleased to avail myself of this
invitation to urge, earnestly urge, in
the name of patriotic people who
have sacrificed hundreds of thousands
of lives, and thousands of millions of
treasure, to preserve the integrity and
union of this country, that this order
be not,insisted on. 1t is Enthusiastically
the expressed wish of the country that
General Sheridan should not be re-
moved from his present command
This is a republic where the will of the
people is. the law of the land. l beg
that their voice may be heard. GEN
eral Sheridan has performed his civil
duties faithfully and intelligently. His
removal will only be regarded as an
effort to defeat the laws of Congress.
1t will be interpreted by the unrecon-
structed element in the South, those
who did all they could to break up this
Government by arms, and now wish to
be the only element consulted as to the
method of restoring order, as a tri-
umph. 1t will embolden them to re-
newed opposition to the will of the loyal
masses, believing that they have the
Executive with them.
The services of General Thomas in
battling for the Union entitle him to
some consideration. He has repeatedly
entered his protest against being as
signed to either of the FIVE Military Dis
tricts, and especially to being assigned
to relieve Gen. Sheridan.
Gen. Hancock ought not to be re-
moved from where he is. His Depart
ment is complicated one, which will
take new Commander some time to
become acquainted with. There are
military reasons, pecuniary reasons,
and above all, patriotic reasons, why
the order should not be insisted on.
l beg to refer to letter marked
Private" which Iwrote to the Presi-
dent when first consulted on the sub
ject of a change in the War Depart
ment. 1t bears upon the subject of
this removal, and, I had hoped, would
have prevented it.
I have the honor to be, with great
your obedient servant,
y. S. GRANT,
General .. s. Army, and Secretary of
War ad interim. |
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-05

priations a national necessity, and
left to the people no alternative but
submission to secession or the crea
ton of the debt.
Thus much for the origin and re
sponsibility of our debt and conse
quent taxation. A word now upon
the more practicable question, Dhat
shall be done IN the premisese The
debt is here. 1t was increased to
preserve our common country
What now will the people do with it2
One of two things they must do-htey
mast pay it or they mast repudiate tt
There is no middle ground. If we
pay it, we must expect and will have
heavy taxes this year, next year and
for years to come. That also is a
matter of fact. But as the debt
diminishes and the wealth and re-
sources of the nation increase, the
burden will grow lighter and lighter,
and in the end the people will have
the proud consciousness of having
kept the faith ana honor of the
country sacred and unimpaired in
peace as in war That also is mat
ter of fact. If we repudiate, we
bankrupt the capital and enterprise
of the country, strip the poor man of
his hundreds at the same time that
we take from the rich man his thou
sands, create a scene Of financial
ruin and commercial disaster unpar-
allelled in the history of this or any
other people, and bring disgrace up
on the nation both at home and
abroad. This also is matter of
fact. It's for the intelligent people
of America to say, what course they
will adopt. The same Democratic
| party, that, during the war counsel
ed ignoble peace and submission to
traitors, now clamor for reputation.
They proved unwise counselers then,
will the people follow them new?--
Give them the power, and they will
repudiate the debt tomorrow. 1t
was incurred in the prosecution of a
war which they denounced from be-
ginning to end as unconstitutional
and wrong. Neither they nor their
southern friends have any interest in
its payment. They intend repudia
ton, and it is for the people to say
whether they will give them the op-
portunity and the power to carry out
their design.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-05
The Last Feat ofPrssident John
son,

Mr.. johnson seems to be followed
by an evil "spirit," and determined
to make himself as unpopular with
the American people as he possibly
can. The result of the impeach-
ment investigation seems to have
emhoidened him in his efforts to
subserve the wishes of his Southern
friends, and at their command he
has just removed from his Cabinet
Secretary Stanton, and Gen. Sheri-
dan and Gen. Sickles from their re-
spective commands at the South
Candy succeeds Sickles, and Han
cock succeeds Sheridan. The real
and only ground for their removal
is the fact that they had rendered
themselves obnoxious to the rebel
element of the country by their stern
and unyielding loyalty. The people
will hold Mr.. johnson strictly re-
sponsible for this act, and while it
will not affect the ultimate recon
struction of the South upon the basis
settled BY Congress, it may and un-
doubtedly willretard that great work
by melting false hope at the South,
and building up new opposition to
the settled policy of the loyal ele-
ment of the country. Gen. Grant
earnestly protests against these
changes, both because of the bad
effect politically that they would
have upon the South, and also be-
cause the interest of the country in
military point of view would be bet
ter subserved by the retention of
Gen. Candy and Hancock in their
present commands. Gen. Grants
protest was, however, without effect.
Copperheads and rebels have again
triumphed, and our bravest Gener-
ais are removed simply because they
were obnoxious to rebels. The
people will do well to see to it, that
in the future none but true and 10y
al men are elevated to Office.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-05

~ The President in his order as
signing Hancock to Sheridan's place,
makes a direct issue with General
Grant, as to the powers conferred
upon commanders of Military Dis
tricts under the reconstru ction act.
He permits Gen. Hanc ock to annul
suclr-acts of Gen. Sheridan's admin
istration as he may see fit, while
Grant, in his recent order assigning
Thomas to that command, continued
them all in force. President John,
son evidently desired not suly to get
rid of ''Phil.," but also to set aside
all his acts that might be "obnox-
ious" to the "rebel chivalry."
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-05
DIED,

WlLSON-In Toronto, on the 26th inst.
BERTHA WILSON, daughter Of Theodore anC
Mary Wilson. Aged four months and twenty
five days.
ELDORFF-August 24th, 1867, Lot
ANNIE, daughter of F. NJ. and s. V. Womel
dorf Aged ten months and twenty -foul
days.
Once more into our family band
Has entered death severe,
And took from US our lovely one,
The one our hearts held dear.
Hush, Dear mother, weep no more;
From death | soon will fly,
And when you pass life's journey o'er,
You'll meet me, upon high.
o, mother, see that shining wreath!
To me it will be given;
By angels hands that wreath was twined
For me to wear in heaven.
The splendor of the brilliant sun
Will not my wreath outshine,
For every leaf is tinged with gold
And every flower divine.
An angel now, ri spread my wings;
With angels will soar.
And on this little brow III wear
That wreath forevermore.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-05

E Wade Hampton is out in a
long letter, arguing against the Con-
stitutionality of the Congressional
plan Of reconstruction. He advises
the people to register and vote
against a Convention. Wade had
better stand aside. The country has
no use for him.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-05

~ Our Government has taken
an active interest in saving the life
of Santa Anna, and has sent dis
patches to our acting Minister in
Mexico to urge President Juarez to
deal with him leniently.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-05
Sherif'S Sale.
STATE of Ohio, Galia Countv, IS.

DURSUANT to the command of an order Of
L sale issued by the Court of Common Pleas,
within and for the county of Galli3 and state of
Ohio. and to me directed as Sheriff of said Gallia
county, | will offer at public sale, at the front
door of the Court t-house, in the city of GallpOs,
in said county of Gallia, and State of Ohio, on
the 7th day of October, a. d. 1867, at the hour of
one O'Clock p. of that day, the following lands
and tenements, situate in the county of Gallia,
and State of Ohio, tO-wit: that is to say being
township no three 9,) of range no. fifteen d. in
the Ohio COmpanys purchase in said county of
Gallia, commencing at the southeast corner Of
fraction no. five (5,l in section no. ten IOl from
which hickory nine (O inches bears north So
deg's east 10 links, another hickory l3 inches in
ming from thence north thirty three chains and
sixty seven links CS 6I) to the north east corner
Of said section and fraction, from which a white
oak 10 inches in diameter bears south SO deg'S
east IS links; also, a gum II inches in diameter,
bears north 90 deg's east 81 links, thence west
twenty-five chains and seventy six links (22 49,
to q stake from which white oak % inches in
diameter bears north 81 deg's west - links; also,
q hickory inches in diaIneter, bears north 10
deg's east links thence south thirty-three
chains and sixty -seyen links (33, 6I.j to u stake
from which white oak 26 inches in diameter
hears north % deg's east 2G links, thence east
twenty-five chains and seventy six links (22 76l
to the place. of beginning; containing seventy
six acres and sixty three h1ndredths of an acre:
appraised at the sum of 100, to be sold as the
and real estate CT Thomas Montgomery
Clark Terms of sale cash in hand.
Given under my hand officially, this 9th day
Of August, a. d. 1857:
Sheriff of G. {. o.
Sept 8, 'S7.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-09-05

E The Republican Convention
of Hamilton county, held last week,
indorsed General Grants manly let
ter protesting against the removal of
Phil. Sheridan.