Middletown transcript., 1868-05-23
The wheat and grass crops are looking
well in this region.
The Rspusllsan national oonventlon

Assembled ut Chicago on Wednesday
last, with Carl Schurz as temporary chair
man. In the evening the committee on
organization reported General Joseph r.
Hawley, as permanent president. A COM
mittee was appointed to which all resolu-
tions were to be referred The Creswell
wing of the contesting Maryland delega-
tions, was regularly admitted, while the
Bond party were allowed seats on the
floor, without-the privilege of voting.
The Baltimore Sun, of yesterday thus
glances at the platform and proceedings !:
Gen. Grant was nominated by acclama-
tion on Thursday. The doubtful contest
for the nomination of Vice President re-
suited in the nomination of Hon. Schuyler
Colfax, of Indiana, Speaker of the House
of Representatives. Thus the west, and
two adjoining States Of the west, carry
off the lions share of the official honors.
The platform adopted by the Convention,
which is what the party is more to be
judged by than its candidates, is string
of generalities, being like many political
platforms, careful avoidance of any dis
tinct enunciation of fundamental princi-
pies, 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
in the North seems to be left to the people
Of the several 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 had voted differently, the Con-
vention would probably have made plat
| form to suit that vote. Therefore, what
honesty of principle is there in the platform
on that point But the reconstructed
States have no rights, nor power, if they
had, of enforcing them, they are handed
over to the political supremacy of a class
which the North will not permit so much
as to have a voice in its government
Upon the vital questions Of currency and
taxation there is no square facing Of the
issues of the, day, but vague de.
clarations and antiquities, intended te
befog and delude. There is grand -four.
ish about paying off the national debt in
good faith, which may be made to mear
\ greenbacks or gold, according as the letter
and spirit of the contract may be con.
strued. '.u'a 's. r.
Andrew johnson is accused Of e1trava
canoe, an assertion which can only be mad,
BY men who think the American people ar,
simplctons, and do not know that the Ex
ecutiye is lying helpless at the feet of Con
, gress, and incapable in any case of tn,
crime charged upon him, as Congress ha
to make all the appropriations, and tn,
,, President cannot spend dollar that theN
do not authorize. Do they suppose tn
country does not know this, or has forgot
r ten who is responsible for the freedman
bureau and other heavy military outlays il
the South, which the President has in vail
en6eayored to remove? 1t is probable tina
the people of the United States have intel
ligence enough to see through these show
e mans tricks, and will not be as readil
r Barnumized as is santicipated Whilst dc
+ elaring that Andrew johnson was justl
impeached for high crimes and misdemean
ors, the platform avoids any condemnation
: of the non-impeachment Senators. Thu
, the party has let itself down easy on thi
. subject, after all its grand furore over i'm
peachment, and the spending of probabl
half million in the trial besides the vast
: fprecious time demanded by measures Wit,
d TO the great practical interests of the couI
try '~ ll-t-f