The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-07-15
rolislcal Items.

patch relative 10 the Virginia election receiv-
ed by the President from the chairman of the
Conservative Committee, was wholly unex-
pected by him. His remark when he first read
it was; who the devil is Daniels? I don't
know OF care who he is"
A dispatch to the Philadelphia Press says,
the motive Of the recent numerous mentions
of Secretary Boutwell, as proper person for
the Republican Presidential nominee in 1872
turns out to be an effort to secure his removal
from the Cabinet. The scheme of the proiec-
tors of the movement was to embroil Secre-
tary Boutwell, and the President in a personal
quarrel, supposing that the latter is a candi-
date for denomination, which, however, is
mere supposition. They hoped to gain by the
appointment OF new man as Secretary Of the
Treasury opportunities for obtaining informa-
ton regarding the operations of the depart
ment, and assistance in their lobby schemes
Ofcourse their efforts have proved futile, and
the friendly relations which have always exis-
ted between Gov. Boutwell, and the Presidens
remain uninterrupted
One of the colored church societies IL Alex
andria held meeting last evening to see what
could be done with church members who vot-
ed the conservative ticket in the late State
election. The church treasurer was among
the offenders and was punished by removal
from Office. A long and excited debate follow
ed on the question of turning all offenders
out of church, but action was not reached.
At the Ohio Democratic Convention at Co.
1umbus, one Of the delegates commenting on
the noise and uproar, said very emphatically:
IF this and New York amt sufficient to kill
the Devil, then don't know what isr' He
meant to be understood as stating, in a figure
the effect of the Tammany Convention that
nominated Seymour and the Columbus Con-
vention that nominated Rosecrans, on the flu
ture ofthe Democratic party.
Republication is to be the battle.cry of De-
mocracy. A New York newspaper having
said that itis as plain as the nose on mans
face that the Democratic party will boldly en-
ter upon the next national campaign with re-
pudiation emblazoned on their banners" the
Savannah Republican edited by rampant ex-
rebel, replies, aand it might have added that
after the campaign is over those banners will
be born aloft in triumph ,,
The Bvmucracy have taken good deal of
satisfaction in declaring that the Republican
party is growing smaller. This is the way
that it grows smaller. 1t polled 1,341 ,s12
votes in 1856; ,s57 610 in 1860; 3Oa5 in 1854
and :, 016, 353 in 1863 In 1856 it was in a pop-
ular minority of S09,722 We are well content
to have the party grow small in this way
Tae Tennessee campaign is going on vigor-
ously. A few days since Stokes denounced
Parson Brownlow, where upon Jim Brown
low stepped upon the stage and said he was
responsible for his fathers actions. Stokes
replied that his structures were to be taken in
Pickwiekian sense.
DIR. A. ID. Sharp is candidate for the u. S.
Senate from Virginia. aaiita
Wonders will never cease. Francis A. Os-
borne recently appointed Supervisor for Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, has
declined the appointment
At recent interview Governor Walker
stated to the President that he would be Gov
ernor of Virginia, and that he would not ner-
NIT himself to be influenced by the old politi-
clans Of the State. 1t was his purpose to carry
out faithfully and fully the platform upon
which ne had been elected and to sustain the |
PRESIDENTS reconstruction policy. He smoke |
freely OF the opposition he had to encounter in
the recent canvass, and also those who sun- |
ported him, and he wanted to set at rest all re-
ports that he was to be influenced by the ex- |
rebel element. Abiding to the nomination of |
Gen. kosecrans in Ohio by the Democratic
party, he said that he was not conscious a, /
having swerved one iota from the views enfer-
.aineo during the war, when be was known in
onicago as war democrat. He then stood
on the same platform with Gen. Rosecrans
VINO ne regretted to know, had now become
the gubernatorial candidate of the ya,lanll;g.
ham party ia Ohio. aal
The political contest in Ohio oes not arcuse
the enthusiasm that had been expected. Gem
eral Rosecrans is not representative man in
the Democratic party, and is hostile to the
system ofpublic school education. Joined tn
other objections is a petulant temper which
has repeatedly brought him into trouble. He
Will probably be a less successful candidate
tnan any Democrat that has ever been palmed
on upon the people of Ohio since Democrat
meant rebel sympathzer and secessionist
General nay represents the majority in oh;,o
2. mas peen good magistrate, and is D. 6atri-
os,o snu pao,cspirited citizen, and a morally
ce,.a'n OF election with LIE .s.,..,,-a th.t
VIII ra.liy the Fifteenth AmsS s,ns". ''A'
~nn NOW LUX HIS +ou. |
which we have not ". sols good story,
Rosscrans and allandigham. On 1 ,Sa e Gen
sasa =. - zndigham, then democratic candi.
r. - Governor of Ohio, was sent through
fines of the Army of the Cumberland, by
order Of General Burnside,-it was in mid
summer of1S6a, now six years ago,-he was
visited at the headquarters assigned him in
Murfreesbors, Tenn, by Gen. VIM. s. Rose
cranz, then commanding the department
General Rosecrans entered into a long and. ON
his part, violent discussion on political sul-
jects. During the conversation Valland;g.
ham, claiming that his position would be ius.
titled by the future policy and events of the
war; remarked to Rrosecranz that in five wears
the General would think as the exile then
though, and stand where he then stood. TT
seems that Vallandigham was right as to fact,
and very nearly correct as to time. He NAV
not think precisely as vallandigham tbouobt
but as the candidate of the democracy Of Ohio
Tor the governorship, Rosecranz certainly
stands where Vallandigham stood.
Judge Van Trump the chairman of Ohio
Democratic State Convention, remarked in
me course of his speech. "We bavs mo -