New-York tribune., 1868-07-02
WENDELL PHILLIPS ON CHASE.

Ocratc Convention See how reluctantly, like the jew,
save his gold parts with his professions he had
any ppncples) TO save his chances of nomination AZ
the outset what lavish waste Of excellent indignation on
part Of his friends when teale correspondents
limited the possibility Of his accepting nom
versal suffrage can be- secured and gold payment
pledged, he will meet the Democrats with recognition
OF State sovereignty and grant OF universal amnesty
For while this is a standing offer But the keen instinct
Of the Democratic rank and file saw negro hid under
this nice meal Spelling negro with two gs Is
the Alpha and Omega OF American Democracy Mr.
Chase might have learned that Gospel Of Col Benton
dozen years ago. and found it, beside enlarged upon in
1t was clear the party could never come up TO him Bhat
heni Cousin said the Duke of Bedford TO the drunken
Duke OF Norfolk lying the mud, Cousin, can't lift
you up; but will do the next best tnngolii he down
with you" so we have the last bid Pendleton and
Chase neck and neck. The platform with which Mr..
Chases private secretary is authorized to tempt Rebel
Belmont's and Brick POmeroys guns both spiked.
2d. Universal Amnesty demanded. pledged as a
necessity Sd Universal Suffrage recommended ~ TO the
States = 4th Congressional Reconstruction denounced
Now Deacon Bascom OF the Corners II you and Postmas
Nasby the play Of Hamlet with that part omit
ted Chase without his record the bgwg without the
Judge-here you have IT. Republication is it TO pay In
greenbacsf Well what Is IT, then, TO repudiate one
whole life Gentlemen Of the 4th Of July Convention, II
you will nominate Chase there Will be no need 10 hOrrly
the world by mentioning population in your platform.
Your candidate himself Is such an embodied RepudI
alton will satisfy EricK Pomeroy, Rhett, Pendleton,
and all their fellows.
THE POLITICAL PARTIEs-THE PACIFIC r.
The National Republican Convention which
nominated Henry Clay for President, passed resolution
fayorng uniform system of internal Improvement, to
be sustained and supported by the General Government
The Democratic Convention Of 1856, which placed James
Buchanan in nomination. recognized the political and
commercial Importance OF safe and speedy cOmmunca
tOn between the two oceans and resolved that IL was
the duty Of the Federal Government TO exercise all It's
sen Sgs IN 'ss s
mously adopted by the Republican National Convention
yention which met at Charleston In April, 1860,
passed part Of the minority report OF Mt Samues
resolution in which the party pledged to aid In bring
ing about improvement much needed Ia the Demo
cratic Platform adopted at Baltimore In June OF the same
year. party was pledged every to secure
tho passage Of bill for the construction OF railroad
from the Mississippi River to the Pacific The Repu6-
1850 and nominated Abraham Lincoln. Incorporated,
the sixteenth resolution OF its Platform the following;
handed % Sy Is. interest,": Tie Whole osG
preliminary thereto daily overland mail should be promptly
And in 1904 the Convention which nominated Mr. Lincoln
passed resolution to the same enect
THE DEMOCRACY AND THE NEGRO VOTE.
To show that tie Democracy are not so
much adverse niggers voting if they only east their
ballots for Democratic candidates, the following extract
from the address OF the Executive Committee OF the
Grant Club of Georgia only necessary This address
was written by ex-GOy. Joseph h. Brown. We quote
frolh it the following passages:
sympathy and common suffering, no true Republican VIII
hermit slight differences OF opinion to sever single ga
ment that uDtes the great brotherhood AS independent
freemen, commend every man for following the con-
Charity s Bat this the only the party
has before It. Ii stands pledged to equal rights to ali
men before the law. Whatever differences OF opinion
may existed to the political rights which the Con-
sttuton the freemen all that the Con-
sttnton does not take from the Legislature the power
confer upon them equality Of political rights with the
white and all admit that each house OF the General
cations OF its members has the power to admit all
elected TO their seats. But this question mas ceased any
TO- pc one 81 p e s s Uo s
The Republican party elected several to the Legislature
and the socaed Democratic party regularly nominated
HOustOn its candidates,
tax collector and the other Tor receiver OF tax
collector Of Houston County, one of tho
largest and weathest counties In the State negro,
elected the regular nominee OF the Democratic party
In this state OF the case both parties committed 10
the policy OF allowing negroes 10 hold once we see no
i pot forget however that they are indebted for
political privileges the Republican party alone Ii the
Republican party had not planted itself firmly upon this
platform and stood there against all opposition the
called Democratic party would never have yielded poh
cal rights the freedmen. Indeed 1t is very questona-
BILE notwithstanding the socaed Democracy OF Georgia
committed to it, whether the Democratic party when
ID meets 10 make It's nomination for the Presidency Will
ratify the action OF the Georgia Democracy In electng
negroes Office and in driving them TO the polls In car
risges and bugges, and carrying them in triumph
ticket Or ip other words when the freedmen, duped
their own right TO vote and to vote for party many of
whom would re-enslave them If they had the power.
The Vindicator, Democratic sheet, published
At Pine Bluff A has dS the 10 Rya5sy OT %
have information that such will continue until the last or
that hateful class Is entirely tS s rea &
love for the glorious Union during the late struggle by
robbing and numbering Rebels such being the case we
satan's shrewdest detective could not md them"
The Cincinnati Chronicle of the 23d inst,
I'VE learn with pleasure that one OF the most
tho General Assembly Of Alabama Is Gen. Willard War
fa G s s an Of mafER
themselves strong where they most need strength IN the
vh.aa aho and
assurance OF their determination 10 make their states the
equals OF the Northern sttes-n loyalty In education
and everything that comprises good citizenship. with
Gen Warner in the Senate the state OF Alabama would
have representative who wSnd command the respect
represent his constituency Gen. warner went into the
s in Is SSS Of S the nnn9 5S Ss9 S9O
fought battles. TILL In April 1884, he was appointed
IuspecorGeneral on Gen shermans staff In this posi-
o he serted with his ustrious chief until he was pro.
NOTED 10 BrigadierGeneral and aftarwsrd breyeted
MaorGeDeraL while in he service he was elected to
bama, and has lived in that State since.
The CHICAGO Tribune says: There is war,
open and undisgused between seymour and Pendleton
Guilty In defeating Pendeton, and Pendetons friends
will be able TO slay Mr. Seymour These two men may
bas-after their battle Another must be selected
and Hendricks Of Indiana is suggested Hendricks Is
redemption man, as strongly as Pendleton
indeed he has been all the time busy at work against
Pendeton and appropriatiDg to his own use tho wnoe
Congress on this Subject leave no room question to
his being fully AZ much repudiator as Pendleton."
TIE Mobile Tribune says $50 it is by no
means impossible that Chase may get the nomination
What would fOllowi There would doubtless be bolt by
the positive and ncorruptbie Democrats In the Conven
ton, and the nomination by them OF Vallandigham OF
Tom Seymour Either OF them would make better run
at the North than Brocknrdge did In 1860 but neither
would probably be strong enough TO run into the White
House. With only Grant and Chase In the field, the
Southern people would look on the contest with perfect
apathy, We have no choice between those two. The
election of either would insure everlasting mongoltsm
the South and eternal taxation to the whole country
unless the people rendered desperate should assert their
rights with the cartridge-box."
A Western paper says There is no doubt
that George H. Pendeton will into the NewYork Con-
yentOn aead Of any other candidate There are put 5
votes n the Convention OF these 70 are held by the
Confederate Democracy" headed by Forrest and for