The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-07-11
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The NcwsYork Herald, now an out-and-out
democratic paper thus pitches i'm 10 the New
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democratic paper thus 'pitches in" 10 the New
York Con venton in its issue of Tuesday last
t. ia becoming more and more apparent, notwith
standing the outcres Of the party press tnat ,ne ma
teriai Of the Convention is of an exceedingly light
character-beow mediocrty, in point OF fact Here and
there NAV be and heard very unc rtan lights VINO
doubtless are regarded great guns in their local.
ties but in the Inc tropol measured by the intellectual
growth force which the result OF social ana com
mercial attrion, they are nearly all Oh them man
better Convention from the beershops within the CIR
cult OF half mile taking Tammany Hall as the centre
"A better posted set of men on politics and whiskey
than are nnty nine every hundred OF those who
are deputed to speak for the Democracy oil the Union.
Ignore the presence Of oratio seymour, OF New YORK
Parsons Of Alabama; James a. Bayard Of Delaware
Judge Nelson, of Tennessee J: b. BALDWIN, OF Hirgi
MIA Boyer, Of Pennsylvania; Tom Ewing, Jr Ohio;
Rhett of South Carolina. and Judge sherman, OF Ohio
and what have we left the sliding scale Estates
manship? Why, we have that insuierable, egotistca
parsonage yallandigham Of Ohio; thatbeauty Sunset
Dan Voorhees, of Ohio, whose intellectual recreation
during the rebellion to make Copperhead speeches
for the benefit of those "patriotic gentlemen" who
abored 'heroically to rend the Union and make of it
country like that of Mexicoa congress OF soVereigns,
whose greatness and industry are py
ever with each other from motives originating
| pitiable jealousy .
And what behind these are there in the Convention
1t is true few Of the Kentucky delegation are ex-
cellent Judges the whskey made in several OF the
counties in that State, while Others from western anu
Southwestern Commonwealth are capable OF entering
into the merits of juice and the qualifications OF
ambitious candidates for hogreeye but when you seal
| them In a National Convention to nominate leading
statesmen for the high offices of President and vice
President of these United States what can you expect
but a collection of dazed tools. whom it is not dihcu
to oyerawe and lead by free dspensation OF drinks
In another article the Herald remarks:
The truth is, the New York Democracy have broker
faith with the conservative masses and have shown
themselves without intelligence to grasp the situation
or courage vindicate their own position Beginning
with Hoffman, and continuing on through seymour ant
Belmont down to poor Church, they are all ignorant
the srea; lessons OF the past eight years. putting thei
copper heads against the idea that the war was uncoh
| stitutional, that Lincoln unconstitutional ina
Congress unconstitutional, and that there Is NOTHING
in strict conformity with the Constitution except Je
Davis General Lee poor Pierce and the old Denocraii
organization, embracing Tammany Han ana the ADan;
Regency. These after playing last ana loose VIII
Seymour, have hit upon the eXpedient OF nomina
ting a country lawyer and Albany accountant as Ne'
Xerl ar te Presidency in place oil Chiei Jus
one Of their numerous candidates for Governor, Is
! weak and WHISKY -wasby their candidate. They d
recognize the Fourteenth Amendment the peopl
demanded they should, do they properly denounc
the barbarism, brutality and degradation OF negro pol
teal and social equality in the Southern States. The
bold only in cheating and rascaty and tinid wher
courage is virtue. The result will be that after expo
sing their weakness and cOwardice they will b,
come parties to platform unmeaning that Of tn
mongrel Chicago Convention, and to a nomination tina
will be mserably beaten in every State of the Unor
Not candidate they have named stands chance
success.