Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-10-01

editorial reviewing the action ofthe
Democratic Convention,
held in that city, in July, 1868. In
the course of its criticisms, the
Democrat INDUCES in the utter
ances of a Wholesale SANDER upon
Southern delegates in that body.
1t says:
Delegates from the South came
here, each entitled to a seat and a
vote. The interests of the South
and West are identical. They are
the great producing sections of
the country. From the West and
the South do the bondholders of
the East expect to derive their
principal revenue and 10 collectby
taxation the interest upon the
bonds they hold, which bonds are
exempt from taxation; while every
dollar invested in Southern or
Western lands, in machinery or
Implements, or IN carrying faciIi.
ties for the greater benefit Of these
countries, must be taxed as never
before.
Had the delegates from the South
in 1868 voted with the interest Of
their constituents for q Western
candidate, he would have been no.
minated on a broad, liberal, and
dis~interested platform pledging the
Democratic party to the protection
Oflabor and the equalization Of
taxation everywhere.
But the delegates from the South
were AFRAID to stand by their nat
ural friends, allies, co.laborers, and
co.taxpayers.
They were Gfraid to express a
preference for a Western man, lest
the powers at Washington, con-
trolled by Eastern influences,
should Cypress the people Of the
South still more.
Some Of them professcd q great
deal of love for johnson, and pro-
fessed to believe that be could and
should be nominated, and il nom.
mated, easily elected. In vain
did the Democrats Of the North
and West plead and argue against
this foolishness. But while they
were arguing, pleading aud en-.
deavoring to convince Southern
delegates that their interests were
with the west and not with the
monied powers of New England,
the agents of bondholders were
inslduously at work buying South
ern delegates and paying them
vGriOuS sums Of mOney-frst,
to rOte for johnson, there
by demordlizing the positive
strength Of the Convention Sec
ondlH against the Vest and It's
interests, and, therefore, against
the interests Of the entire country.
Money Was paid IN this city to
Southern delegates for their vOtes.
This money was expended in
some instances that we know of,
in dissipation and in faro-banks
of this city. One delegate from
one of the Southern States arrived
in New York with less than TWEEN
ty dollars in his pocket. The Sc
cond night Of the convention he
lost in a faro-bank in this city
$4,000. The third night he was
in the city he lost or expended
$1,000, and the next morning
called upon US at our rooms al
the Astor House for enough mon.
ey to pay his board-bi and pur.
chase a return ticket to his South.
ern home.
That the Southern delegates
"were afraid to express a prefer
ence for q western man. or tina
they we're paid various sums o
money, first to vote for Johnson
and secondly against the west an,
its interests" is an unmitigateC
SANDER, and it is proUed 10 be
SANDER by the fact that Mr.. John
son never received the vote of
corporals guard from the South
and that the Southern delegate
DID vote for a western man in til
person Of the Hon. George II
Pendleton, and that they contin
ued to vote for that distinguish,
young statesman until his nam
was, upon his own peremptor.
demand, withdrawn from the Con
vention! If Brick Pomeroy
knors, as he says he does, an.
Southern delegates who wer
"paid money for their cotes." lie
him name them, and not ute
fred hot ISLANDERS upon his BET
tiers, men who have more brains
characters capacity and honest
than a whole line of Pomeroys
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THE CAN DIDATE NAMED.
Rrick Pomeroy, the journalist