The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-07-02
THE NEW YORK CONVENTION.

On Saturday the Fourth day of July
the Democratic Convention will assemble
in New York City. The crowd that will
assemble there IS forcibly set forth in the
columns of the Chicago Post as follows.
Sitting his convictions and curbing
his aversions, the War Democrat who
was courageous enough to fight bravely
on the field. but who lacks the nerve to
break away from the wicked party the
Copperhead Democrat, doubling whether
to fiaunt his mean treachery to the Gov
ernmcnt during the war as badge of
distinction, or to play hypocritlcal
Union role, in the hope Of binding the
eyes of the country to his real design and
true character; the miserable nondes
script who In the South, out of the re-
gard to the conditions Of his personal and
financial safety, did not go into the rebel
army, but staying at home, the pretend
ed friend of the Union cause, acted con-
stantly as a spy upon Union troops, and
almost nightly put murderous guerrillas
upon the track of Union men: and the
unrepentant, malignant rebel soldier,
who for more than four years in the
cause of human slavery rnddened South
ern plains with Northern blood, and
filed Southern soil with Northern bones
determining now to rule where he could
not ruin, will be there. The Seymours
and the Rhetts, the Valandighams and
the FORESTS, the Hancocks and the
Buckners, the Changers and the Beaure-
CARDS, the Pomeroys and the Semmeses
will be there upon common level, in
spired with a common purpose, and fused
together by common hatred. Differ
ences of view upon finance, upon suffrage
upon the tariff upon the taxes upon candi-
dates even will all disappear before the
great necessity of organizing the most
vigorous campaign possible against the
Republican party.
Why will this heterogeneous mass seek
the overthrow of the Republican rule?
Why is it that the party which, when
the right of the President it had consti-
tutIonally elected to preside over the
whole nation was disputed by armed
rebels. boldly assumed the responsibility
of opposing force with force: which, for
four years waged for the Union the most
stupendous warfare Of ancient or modern
times, winning victory in spite of Dem
ocratic treason and Democratic doubts,
and at last gathering up the shattered
fragments 0f government in the conquer
ed States, reconstructed them into more
than their former symmetry, with slavery
everywhere destroyed; why is it, we say,
that this party must go down upon the
very eve of Its triumph, and in the very
midst of its usefulness, before its ancient
enemy? Simply because that enemy, re-
pellant and discordant as are its different
corps, divisions and regiments, is eager
for spoils and determined to obtain them
1t can give no reason why there should
be change in the political character of
the Government except that It's leaders
want office. It matters nothing to the
Democracy that the country has been dis
tracted by long war and needs rest: It
matters nothing to it that the loyal peo-
pie, with unaninity never equaled, haye
called upon the patriot General who led
their armies to victory to be their Presi-
dent; it matters nothing that Abraham