The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-10-26
Political Notes.

1t Is thought the Alabama Convention will
be ordered for the first of November. =
A Minnesota paper is severe on a recent ar
tcle in the New York Citizen. 1t says: "Miles
PReilly asserts that twice as many Democrats
went to the war as Republicans. Does Miles
mean for us to count both armies?
The attempt to organize party in the South
in opposition to reconstruction meets with nc
success. Only halt dozen out of the sixty
one counties of Mississippi sent delegates to
the Ant-Congressional Convention so impos-
ingly advertised for weeks in every county.
One thousand foreigners have been natural
lied in New York preparatory to voting the
Democratic ticket at the coming election and
more are being manufactured
Wendell Phillips is featuring on the DAVID
ling Congress" For speaker whose reputa-
ton rests so much on the classic purity of his
style, this sounds little too much like Wall
Whitman.
Horace Maynard withdrew from the Senate
rial canvass in Tennessee. Senator elect
Brownlow does not take his seat till March 4,
1862 y iisi..'" f.Hiu te-sfisi3
Gov. Ward Of New Jersey, chairman of the
National Republican Committee states a uia-
jority of the Committee agree on June as the
time and Chicago as the place ot'holding the
National Convention. sai u sls'l tHts BIZ
Hon. Durbin Ward promised the Butler
County, Ohio Democracy a barrel of tar anu
barre of whisky il they would give 1000 MAJ
Jority. They did it and he did it, A-f..t
The Augusta Standard advises all Democrats
10 STAND aioof and take no part in the demon
~ Al.
stratlons at the reception of Sheridan. The
editor evidently regards it as an Repnblican
celebration. So were the celebrations of sbar-
dams victories from which Democrats o,so
stood aloof eHf
John Minor Bolts, who was defeated as a
delegate to the Virginia Convention from Gull
pepper County was running ON conservative
ticket, contrary to the prevailing impression.
= Wade Hampton has written letter in
which he says: GFor myself, confess that
am perfectly willing to see a Constitution
ADOPTED by our State comforting the elective
1ranchse on the negro, on precisely the same
terms as 1t is to be exercised nv the white man
guarding against the abuse of this privilege by
establishing slight educational and nronertv
qualification for all classes"
The Lancaster PENN Examiner has nlao.
ed the name of Gen. Grant at the head ot ;ts
columns as the Republican candidate for the
nextPresidency When does the Argus pro-
pose to follow suit and fulfill the promise of its
gushing" period of few weeks ago? saI
Fred. Douglas has been making speeches in
New Jersey which show that his radicalism
mas not suffered any diminution from the re.
suit of the late elections - ,sa .i.s..ttl
A Northern Copperhead periodical declares
that the only possible solution Of our nol;t;col
difficulties is to restore both tho so,,+bnrn
States and the negroes to the condition in
which they were before the war.
The vote at the recent elections in Louisiana
and Alabama was larger than at the Presiden-
tial election of 1860. So much for the asser-
tion of Southern journals that the whites did
not vote.