The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-20
POLITICAL.

new paper is to be started at Washington as
the organ of the Chase Republicans.
william A. Buckingham will be chosen United
States senator Of the radical legislature Of Con.
necticut, to replace Dixon.
John Quincy Adams will probably be q Demo-
cratic candidate for governor In Massachusetts,.
Prominent Republicans proposed for the office are
Congressman Dawes end Lieut.. Gov. Clafn.
Gov. Holden, of North Carolina, has rendered
to Robert Douglas, the eldest son Of Stephen A.
Douglas, the position Of private secretary on his
staff.
The Washington correspondent Of the Phila-
depha Ledger says A. T. Stewart has been try
ing to persuade Grant to withdraw as prssiden-
tial candidate.
The Boston Post. which recently declared in
favor of General Hancock as the Democratic
candidate for the presidency, now urges Hon.
Charles Francis Adams for the vice-presidency.
The committee appointed by the Fifth Avenue
Hotel Hancock meeting to consult with Horatio
Seymour, report thet he Is not, and under no cir
cumstances, will be candidate for president.
The temperance men Of Massachusetts,, in con-
yention at Boston. have adopted a resolution to
separate fran the Republican party OF the State
unless that party puts temperance plank in its
Charles E. Morse, writing from Washington to
the American Anti-Slavery Society says Gen.
Grant has declared himself for universal suffrage,
and maintains that this must be the ruling idea OF
his administration II he is elected In 1868. He
also reports Gen. Grant to favor the conviction Of
the president
In the Massachusetts, legislature on the 18th
Richard Fl. Dana, Jr., introduced In the HOUSE
resolution soemnly deprecating all attempts to
bring to bear upon senators in the discharge Of
their judicial duties the force of asserted local
opinions, and still more, the force Of organization,
discipline, opinion or wishes OF political parties.
Ii was indefinitely postponed by vote of l0l to
SO. A similar resolution was introduced in the
Senate by General Schuyler, and referred TO the
committee on federal relations.
In the Methodist Conference at Chicago, on the
18th, Rev. DIR. Gilbert Haven, of Boston pre-
scented preamble, recitng facts in regard to the
impeachment trial now in progress, expressing
the strongest condemnation of the course OF the
president and the importance Of his conviction,
and closing with resolution to devote an hour on
Saturday to prayer for the Senate and the coun-
try. The reading of the preamble created intense
excitement and after some earnest discussion it
was tabled by an overwhelming vote.
Washington dispatch says: Some of the
leading New York Democrats are here with what
they are giving out as q Democratic platform, to
be presented to their national convention on the
4th Of July. According to their story, the panks
are these: First-Declarstion against human
slavery. Standardization that the Confede-
rate debt is void. Third-That the national debt
is TO be paid exactly as prescribed by law.
Fourth-Qualified manhood suffrage, to be con-
troed by the States for this basis. They say they
are sure great party can be built up that shall
not only gather nearly all the Democratic strength
to itself, but also secure large conservative Re-
publican support. They also say that they are
looking for the most available candidate to run on
such platform