New-York tribune., 1867-09-24
TWO DRONJOS or SyR4CrSE.

A Republican State Convention will meet to-
morrow at Syracuse, to nominate ticket for the
ensuing election. and two delegations thereto
have been chosen from this City. We do not
believe that the organization whereof Thomas
Murphy is the official head can seriously expect
to be recognized by the Republicans of the in
terror; but it has evidently some puipose-in
our Judgment, a mischieyOus one--in setting up
this preposterous claim; so we devote several
columns of this issue to thorough exposure
of its pretensons, which we commend to the
careful study of all interested in the matter.
If that article leaves any hide, or even hair, on
the Weed Murphy organization, our eyes are
too dim to perceive it.
Briehy-this organization is the old Twenty
&" third-st. gang" which was conspicuous at the
Philadelphia arm-n-arm Convention last year
whose organ was favored by Andrew johnson
with Sheridan's dispatch respecting the New
Orleans massacre, so garblcd and mutilated as
to conceal the atrocity of that gigantic crime
and seem to throw the blame on the murdered
Radicals-which kept away from the Republican
State Convention last year, and was represented
instead in the Democratic Convention at Albany
and allowed the Lieutenant Governor on the
State ticket framed there-which participated in
the great Union-square meeting which ratified
the nomination of Hoffman for Governor and
Pruyn for Lieutenant GOvernOr-and which spe-
cially ratified those persons as National Union"
candidates-whch did its very utmost against
Fenton and Woodford, and possibly gave Hoff-
man 1000 votes in the whole City and 1000
more in the State.
This is the concern which, after staying away
from the last two Republican State COnven-
tions, proposes to take control of this years. and
to name the Republican candidates for State
Officers. If John r. Hoffman was last year the
Republican candidate for Governor, its claim is
good if not, not. That is the problem to be
solved by the Republican delegates from the
rural districts tomorrow, and we cannot be-
lieve that much time will be wasted upon it.
But the managers of this Twenty -thrd-st
concern are not fOols-far from it-and are not
going to Syracuse with any idea that they can
oust the regular delegates, chosen by those who
supported and elected Fenton, Woodford and
Shaler last year. They know great deal bet
ter than that They are playing game for
which this is but mask. We presume they
mean to oppose and defeat the regular Repub-
lcan ticket this Fall Gas they tried but failed
to do last FalD and then turn upon us with
the menace-"We have shown you what we
can do: now give us a lead in the National
Convention and the party generally, or we
"will serve you in '68 as we did in 'G7." That,
we judge, is what this resurrection of the dry
bones presages. And, in that view, we exhort
the State Convention to handle this Twenty
tlird-st. gang carefully aud skillfully at SYRIA
cuse tomorrow.
There is but one vital question remaining TO
be settled under existing political organiza-
tons. 1t concerns the status and the hopes
of Four Millions of our countrymen. "Shall a
" Black man be denied the common rights of
" citizenship because of his color9 Shall -Four
millions of Blacks, including Two Hundred
Thousand Union soldiers, be forever serfs and
" outcasts in the land of their birth9 Shall ann
" man be disfranchised for no fault of his owng'
Now this Twenty -third-st. gang last year sup
ported Hoffman g. Co. on the assumption that
they (the gang) were conservative Republicans.