The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-12-31

the districts IN Wnlcn the greatest want prevails.
The advice of General Gillem, that some such
scheme for the immediate relief of sufferers In
the South should be taken without delay, has
been approved by both President johnson and
General Grant The unexpended balance Of
over eight million dollars remaining in the ex-
chequer of the Freedmen's Bureau is sum too
large safely to be LETT idle in these days Of
temptation. Corruption should have no chance
to feed on it. General Towards proposal to
use it as Southern relief fund will meet with
national appreciation.
Multiplicity Of National Conventions in 1868.
There is likely to be full harvest Of na-
tional conventions during the year 1863, at the
threshold of which we are now standing. OF
course there will be the conventions Of the two
great political parties, the republican and tho
democratic The former has already been
called TO meet in Chicago on the goth Of May
next, and the Executive Committee of the lat
ter meet in Washington on the 22d of February
to appoint the time and place for holding the
National Convention. 1t is also proposed to
hold q national convention Of anti war demo
crats or those who suffered arbitrary impri-
sonment in the North during the war upon
charges of disloyalty. The "Grand Army Of
the Republic" hold q national convention, or
first annual meeting, in Philadelphia on tho
18th Of January for political purposes. There
will also be held soldiers and sailors ma
Honal convention for . similar object The
Southern papers are proposing conservative
national convention, to be held in Louisville
on the ed of February. The eight hour, or
working men, will enter the national political
arena under distinctive banner, unless in the
meantime the organization be swallowed up
by one or the other of the great political par
ties. They will also probably have their ma
tional convention. It does not appear likely
that the Cooper Institute party that nominated
General Grant for President will hold
national convention, their labors being con-
fined principally to the issuing Of circulars
urging business men all over the country to
work for Grant Furthermore, we will pro-
badly have q woman's rights national conven-
ton, and, no doubt, a negro supremacy national
convention, composed of the debris of the old
abolition party. 1t would not be surprising Il
we should likewise have during the summer
national convention Of political clergymen al
some cool watering place. This would DO
particularly refreshing assemblage during the
hot weather. At this convention, after dis
posing Of the subject of the Presidency, the
congregated diInes might settle the vexed
questions about the holy opera, song worship.
hymnology, psalmody, religious theatricals
and similar lively matters, without touching
upon intricate and abstruse church dogmas.
Besides the above there will be held during
the year perfect swarm of State conventions,
both in the reconstructed and unreconstructed
States, white and black; but the greatest and
grandest of all these conventions will be the
one held by the American people at the polls
on the day of the Presidential election in
November next, when radicalism in all it,
detested forms will be swept away, it is to BE-
hoped, forever.
Therefore we may expect the coming year
to be one of the most interesting, go far as the
discussion Of political and social topiod are
concerned, that the country has witnessed since
the organization Of the government