Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-08-26
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was Ior Democratic gathering for tn
a county, quite respectable The notice tbs
Dir Bailey of the Boston Herald was /
speak had the effect to draw some B
actual couat 10 the forenoon. there WEI
binety odd, and the number was incress
ed in the afternoon 80 that we judg
there were'a hundred AMI City Democrat
and few Republicans. The call wa
made to the Democrats and conservat;ves
but We looked sinsvsin for the couser7
tives. The make ,ap of the convention
was the same thathss been familiar to Vi
for 20 years '0aly 'very few young
men. There were the same Trace Ma,
tins" JEFF Newlands, Healy Cadye, I'm
Gle Crockers." &c W. Hills" "Ab
Dows," "Volney Hadleys.'' and that
class of men as heretofore. We do moi
mean 10 speak of these men in any tone
OF personal diSrespect, but simply to show
how interchangeable these fellows are-how
true to their party, to the dead body Of
their partyvrather, after its spirit has
long since departed. As faithful and
true as old dog Tray!
The business Of the convention did not
take long. As usual, our good uaturcd
friend, Judge Wa'erman.--whosc Dewoc
racy is Of the hardest sbelled type,-was
made temporary President, and W. W.
Eaton, Esq. Secretary, assisted by DR..
V. d. Rood. A motion was made by Mr.
Ssbin Scott of Eden, who said he did not
favor these temporary organizations. to
make the motion permanent. Judge Wa
terman said : Being Democrat, and
not very modest, III put the motion my
self! Gentlemen, are you ready for the
question 4? G,nlemen. as many as will
so order. say /. Contrary minded, say
10 The Lis have it Iuan a0e'ce ont aw
And all seemed to be well pleased the
9 nventlon ROW resolved itsrl into town
caucuses to appoint terminating commit
tees, previously to which it had cen 70
ted to reasonable at precisely one o'clock.
in order to hear speeches.
The convention promptly reassembled ,
at one o'clock, and after the report OF the ,
committee Nr. Bailey wss S
called on. a
MIR Bailey commenced bis remarks by :,
laying that he Intended to discuss the is. !,
ues of the day, capdidly. disp ,ssOn tsly Ia
nd truthfully,--said it might -dnd n
trangely to his audience to hear a MIN d
ay'he INTENDED to tell the truth, ard =
'e'have no doubt it did sound strangely
noueh to'them. They had n, come, ex y
Getting to hear TRUTH, and we though, va
he announcement, created some consid, il. y"
10 CONSERVATION among the uutcrrifed &c
We bad our reporter take q full short
and report OF the speech. which he as &
ritten out, and we regret that we,bave uc
't room to publish it in order that our ".
aders might know just what moderate pa
emocratic orator calls truth in Ammo ou
omini 1868, We have only time and eli
ace to notice a few points of the speech. VIC
hieh appeared to US the most strange to an
talked to such an audience as Mr. pn
'iley addressed. He endeavored to WI
ow that Mr.. Seymoars war record had o9'
en- good, that is, on the side of the l's
mon. and quoted from Mr.. Lincoln and Ills
c. Stanton's dispatches to Mr.. Seymour a''
1868. thanking him as Gov ofNY ''r
his proiDpti,ude, &c. in furnishing Wv
'ops to repel invasion When he b ID TO
'ciudsd his proof npon the subject of ooc
:. Seymour's war record, which he said On
gbt to silence the opposi,iiion upon W.
IS point, it was really refreshing to h.. AZ
see the Democrats cheer. Now Mr.. 'he
iley himself was war Democrat. ard EN-
ed for aincoln and johnson in 1864 oeu
might justly have some pride in de.
ing to make COED war record for Mr.
7mour, and the same coui be said Of a''
cry few ofhis audience. But we could 'ne
k over thirty Copperheads 50 uare 10 'ne
lace to whom such record would be
gall and wormwood. who cheered as par
tiiy as the rest! Men who felt no ioy ''e :,
en- the glad tidiugs Of Lees surrender
illcd the hqrt Of the nation, but who
ointely lesped and swung their hat. .
b delight, when the news q .sbed over
wires that the sneakiug assassin '
9TH bad foully, brutully murdered the .
tlest and most humane OF all the grca. '
ers in the world One we could see 7
md we planted our eyes into him-a '
D of more than four score years, whose Jon
st was that upon his Bonded knees he
won't during the war, to offer prayers $50.
he Throne Of Grace. that all-his own r.
bred included. -who engaged in the s
'oIy, niger War nigh, fiud bloody :. =
yes in the oppressed and dunn trood.n