Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-27
THEERW YORE CONVENTION.

HoDaDiy be the nominee. III
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THE NEW YORK CONVENTION.
From lengthy editorial in the National |
Of the 23d instant, We ex'
.rast the subjoined paragraphs. The
spirit Of the whole article is bread and
catholic. While insisting that certain
and fundamental principles
shall be clearly enuneiatei, it recOm-
mehds the discarding Of attachmeutstOin-
diyiduals, and hopes the convention will
be animated with the single purpose of
selecting candidate, the announeement
OF whose name viii, at once, inspire
the enthusiasm and energy Of the entire
party If the body should be moved with
The spirit ineulcsted by the Intelligence,
the Democracy viii enter the canvass,
elate with that hope and courage which
commands success
A noticeable feature in the articl Q,
however, is the absence OF all reference
20 the financial problem and it is evident
that journal would exclude il altogether
from the canvass This cannot be done.
1t is great, live, earnest, practical ques.
tioH, that will not down at the bidding
Of politicians The business of the coun-
try is suffering The burdens Of govern
ment are unequal. An ubiquitous sys-
tenn, fattening by what il feeds on.
is expressing the great mass to
the enrichment of the few. If we
are to have new order Of things, the
correction, to greater or less extent, of
these evils, must have first place in the
programme CT the party of reform, The
abandonment of the pernicious prin-
ciples under which Radicalism has
enslaved ten or twelve States, and which
it meditates to enforce against others, is
certainly Of vital Importance But the
| banner Of the reformation which Demo,
cracy bears in the coming canvass, must
have inscribed on it some legend which
viii give the people hope for an improved
financial administration They cannot
and will not endure a system which
increases the public Indebtedness, month
by month, and makes, what should be a
simple, economical, republican govern
ment, great gold-gambling concern,
managed 10 the interestsof favorites and
parasites To evade this issue viii be
madness Let it be met If there are
conflicting views let them be compared,
and cut of them, upon safe and just prin
ciples of political economy, let some
plain, Ineligible measure be offered
which will remove the inequalities, and
tighten the burden Of taxation.
The htelhgencsr insists that the South
ern delegates shall participate unre,
ssrvedly in all the action of the conyen~
ton These columns have suggested the
propriety of carefully considering this
course before it is taken We think
there should be, preliminary to the for
NAL organization, full conference Of all
the States south of Kentucky, in regard
to this matter As matter of course it
is not intended they should not mingle
freely in counsel; but there may be a
wise policy IL committing to the sterling
Northern Democracy the decision of the
great questions to be met, and the choice
Of candidates. In such an event. the
South would, at the proper time, confirm
and ratify such action, if censonant with
the true principles Of government From
the hands Of that Democracy, which in
the last seven years has been baptised in
blood and fire, we expect nothing else.
Should, however, it be discovered that
water Cruel is to be substituted for the
true wine, they can intervene, to the
limit Of their strength, to prevent it
There is some reason to apprehend that
an element ready to sacrifice all princis
pie at the shrine of supposed expediency,
will be in the convention. Its strength
and resources should be carefully noted,
and, If necessary the true men of the
South, for this element is not confined to
the North, should cooperate with the
Northern representatives Of principle, to
put it down. The following is the In
felIigencers views
The delegates of the convention at New
1 York must if they would rescue the coun-
| try by peaceful solution from present or
impending woes promptly, speedily, with
] out any delay, and without any denial,
/ make nomination that shall thrill the
hearts Of men ike trumpeps tone,
When the long line comes cleaning on."N
Candidates at New York must not be
selected or ignored or account Of Tie past
| The past must be forgotten. There must
be an oblivion Of it. The simple question
should be, who can now, upon great vital
| issues. Get most UOtes? Who and what shall
best condttce TO success There must now
be among those who are OF should be
friends by the
Brunt Of equal blows,
| Joint efforts common ends.
unioO, harmony, concession; everything
for the cause, nothing for men.
Candidates must not be preferred or
/ ignored for any one thing in particular.
/. Not in one good thing done, but in many,
lies greatest excellence. II there be one
| who, upon the carefullest inquiry and con-
Alteration, can appear best to unite the
/ elements of success, and thus fill the
measure of his country's glory, let him be
selected at once, aud all the people viii re-
| ioice in their heart of hearts.
| We are thus earnest as 20 the selection
| Of a man in whom are combined the
elements that can Assuredly secure success,
because the issues of freeing ten millions Of
uIifes Of he South from he hraH Of hated
aegro supremacy IS trdHScendeRtly he great
est that can b. any possibility engage or err
cite the minds Of true and gust men. They
are, or are to be, by Congressional act, un
der the yoke of the negro. Not only are
they 10 be made 10 crouch 20 blacks, but
the latter, by acting as a unit 10 ten States
Of the South, TO say nothing of the border
! ones, where negroes are 80 numerous, may
possibly, as things are, corae into the halls