Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-05-28
The Republican national Convention.

The Republican NotionaA COnventfOn.
The Chicago Convention has completed
its labor. General Grant was nominated
for. President by reclamation, as was anti
cipated. The doubtful contest for the
nomination of Vice President resulted in
Ethesnomination of Hon. Schuyler Colfax,
Eof Indiana, Speaker of the House Of Rep
ressntssives. Thus the West, it seems,
and two adjoining States of the West, car
~ off the lions share Of the official hon.
ors: The platform adopted by the Con-
vention, which is what the party is more
to be judged by than its candidates. is a
string Of generalities, being like many po-
litical platforms q careful avoidance of
any distinct enunciation Of fundamental
principles, not an announcement of what
is right, or what those who frame it ought
to say, but work. formed by those who
look around and ask what is polite, and
what strings to pull and what to let alone,
which, under other circumstances, they
would pull most vigorously. In regard
to suffrage, Congress is to guarantee it to
all the loyal people of the reconstructed
States, whilst the suffrage 10 the North
seems to be left to the people Of the seve-
raj States there, The popular vote on
that subject in the Northern States was
sufficient to show the Convention what to
let alone in that direction. If Ohio and
Michigan bad voted differently, the Con-
vention would probably have made plat
form to suit that vote. Therefore, what
honesty of principle is there in the plat
form on that point? But the reconstruct
ed States having no rights, nor power, if
they had, of enforcing them, they are
banded over to the political supremacy of
class which the North will not permit so
much as to have voice in its govern
ment. Upon the vital questions of cur
rency and taxation there is no square fac
ing of the issues of the day, but vague
declarations and antiquities, intended to
befog and delude. There is grand -four
ish about paying of the national debt in
good faith, which may be made to mean
grcenbacks or gold, according as the let
ter and spirit of the contract may be con-
strued. ''You pays your money and you
takes your choice" Andrew johnson is
accused of extravaganza, an assertion
which can only be made by men who think
the American people are simpletons, and
do not know that the Executive is lying
helpless at the feet of Congress, and inca
pable in any case of the crime charged
upon him, as Congress has to make all
the appropriations, and the President can
not spend dollar that they do not autho-
rize. Do they suppose the country does
not know this, or has forgotten who is re-
sponsible for the freedmen's bureau and
other heavy military OUTLAWS in the South,
which the President has in vain endeav-
ored to remove? It is probable that the
people of the United States have intelli-
genee enough to see through these -she#-
mans tricks, and will not be as readily
Baraumized as is anticipated. Whilst
declaring that Andrew johnson was just
ly impeached for. high crimes and INSIDE
meanors, the platform avoids any condem-
nation of the non-impeachment Senators
Thus the party has let itself down easy on
this subject, after all its grand furore over
impeachment, and the spending Of proba-
bly, half million in the trial, besides the
waste Of precious time demanded by mea-
sures vital to the great practical interests
Of the country.-Balt. Sam, .,.,
vfsISA 'ee>y. T-rae<Sorn<so,>
The New, York. Herald of Saturday, in
its Washington correspondence. has the
following statement in relation to the
Pomeroy disclosures before Buffers in
quision.:' y Abiding to the letter mention
ed in COL Cooper's testimony, and which
Butler admitted was in his possession, and
also to Pomeroy's denial of the authentic
city Of this letter, the HeralGs correspon-
dent says: - ,'.,l- ~, =. a. -.
This evening Pomeroy was asked for an
explanation, but had none to give beyond
the mere denial of not having written such
letter as Cooper had sworn to. Cooper's
charge was very explicit, and receives
strong color Of support from a document
which will be very soon made public, Of
anterior date to the letter in question,
signed with the genuine autograph Iof S.
G.. Pomeroy, and promising in case q GER
tain office was placed at the disposal Of q
certain friend of Pomeroy's, that he would
support the administration, vote for all
nominations. and vote against impeach-
ment if it ever came up before the Senate.
Either the story must be true that be tried
to exchange his opposition to the Presi-
dent for certain Executive favors, or that
be conspired with Stanton and Butler to
draw the Presidents friends into a trap.
in the hope of drawing the President after
them. The denial he makes of never
having written the letter is very safe
one, for, the reason that Gaylord, to whom
he gave it, to show to Cooper, never al
lowed it out, Of his hands, and, having
failed to accomplish its object, was in all
likelihood, torn up, thus destroying all
trace Of the transaction. Butler, if he
was really sincere in advancing Radical
interests, should never have put such a
question to Cooper as to draw forth the
damaging answer it did. Thad. Stevens
was very much annoyed, and said; this
morning that all their work was undone
By this course Of examination; that none
but tyro in law would PROFOUND such a
question to a witness, and no copperhead
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