The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-02
BlantOn Duncan and His Dissatisfied
v- Army Of Hard-SheHs. -.-
DlScoUNTMG THE NOVEMBER CHANCES
The Prospect In Kentucky IL Gree
ley Be Defeated.
The Liberal Organization To Be Continued
BOurbOniSm To Be Buried. ss
SKETCHES OF THE DELEGATES.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. I, 1872.
One OF the leading persons who have come to
Blanton Duncans Convention is William Cory, OF
Cincinnati. This man suggests the oft-remarked
similitude between the extreme abolitionist OF
other days In the North and the last Bourbons of
their time holding over in the South. He is weak
eyed and lght-eyed, with yellow complexion, and
with dry, black, long hair, which hangs over thin,
slopng shoulders. lie Is full Of an extraordinary
sort Of talk, which runs into
KIND OF GRABBED PHILOSOPHY.
He believes that John @ Calhoun was the great
est American, and that Calhoun was the political
child OF John Randolph OF Virginia, whom he holds
to have been profounder statesman than Adam
Smith. In Corry's mlnd free trade, State rights,
revolution, slavery and all the obnoxious prnci-
pies Of the feudal system make kind OF
political gospel, which he calls by the name
OF conservative liberty He publishes q newspaper
called the Con,moner Of sparse circulation, which
is chiefly noteworthy for Its Wild sentiments and
| irreoOncilable politics. Compared with Brick
Pomeroy, Cory Is a gentleman in education and
association. He is man of great reading and Of
some ingenuity in mechanics, as well as in political
| augmentation but any journalist who had been
In the habit twenty years Of attending
abolition oonventcles can recognize In Cory
precisely that old typpS 81 Northern feformers
who have been engaged since slavery has been
extrpated In abusing each other after the fashion
or Wendell Phillips on Garrison and Garrison on
Greeley Supreme vanity, obstlnacy and opnla-
tiveness constitute the backbone Of these people.
They are longwinded and rattle of history, morals,
predestination, &C., with sort of wild facility
which sometimes startles young aud undisciplined
listeners. The truest man In any sense that will
be at the Convention will probably be Cory. His
hn0
lucky, Tennessee and the Gulf States, and Is read
chiefly by old gentlemen who lost their hundred ne
groes. and think Providence abdicated some years
ago. People who hold that whatever is ia wrona
will make
THE HONEST PART OF DUNCAN's CONVENTION
and the rest Will be OF a cheap and timd kind.
Ferry, Of Michigan, who Is here, appears to be Q
weak and soft kind of rundown man OF no par
ticular value. All his family are extreme republi-
cans and prosperous people, while he ia weak and
seedylookng, ana is the natural prey Of such agi-
tators as Duncan. great deal Of betting Is going
on after the Kentucky fashion, for Kentucky is
like Mark Twain's man In the story OF the jumping
frog, and will bet on anything, even on which
of two birds will fly of the fence FIRST One OF
Grants mercenaries proposed yesterday to bet that
Illinois would give greater majority for Grant
than Missouri for Greeley. An old plaster-lke
looking man, who Was ready bet on anything,
exclaimed > 20.
II woh'tpet on thatP 5N.>--- ID. ~. -
"Why" says the other. ,.---,-,.:,r @.s.s -
"Because you only have to send your Grant voters
out OF Missouri, where they are of no good, over
into Illinois, just the Grant people here are send
ing the negroes out OF Kentucky. where they can
accomplish nothing, to vote In Indiana and that IA
what you are betting on.n
The true agitator OF the straight-out Convention
win be G.gar !, Morton, who arrives at New Albany
20 nd hams
with the telegraph wires In the hotel in connection
with Louisville, by way Of Jeffersonvle.
THE SCENE AROUND THE GAIT HOUSE
this morning Is OF quaint and curious character
In one spot can be seen rough Kentuckan, who
has never been to school, except on horseback,
miring sort of way and with perfect honesty at
some long-haired politician from Central Indiana,
ture, crammed with kind of v0racious gascOnade,
which he discharges at the aforesaid Kentuckan.
and returns to his neghbors perfectly satisfied
that IN opposing Greeley he ,i is keeping the
over the rim Of the spittoons is the accompani-
ment OF every political asseveration. Duncan him.
self comes In, perhaps, after time, allghtng from
a singular description OF basket phaetOn, which he
drives around town with red slipper on one loot,
dressed In white nannel kept over from last year.
were in his hands. Even young Kentuckian
Aforesaid presently discovers that Duncan is
blatherskite and the old BOurbOns are Tor the same
reason good deal discounted to ind that this
person is master of ceremonies.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN KENTUCKY
Is headed by several very able and respectable gen.
temen. None of these are known to have given
any aid or comfort to Mr.. Duncans show: Being
to be bored by him. His Northern abettors live In
Indiana Illinois and Michigan.
II GREELEY SHOULD BE DEFEATED
In November 1t will become serious question as to
what attitude the democratic party will take. The
and propose to separate nom the Greeley element.
The Greeley faction, composing most OF the
% ,Sps In the ts AND nearly the the whole
bat and respond in terms:-We are willing to let
the republicans take the state, and we prefer that
they should do so rather than Bourbonize our
selves. The Greeley democrats will at once push
for general education In the State, and declare
upon the Cavalier qualifications, such as duelling,
street lighting, &c. There is no considerable man
In Kentucky who has not shaken OH the dust Of Old
ton harmonious with the rest Of the country It is
astonishing here to see the perfectly c0mpanonabe
relations existing between three daily papers. The
Commercial gets from $4,000 to $4,000 worth OF
government printing, is edited by Colonel Kelly
stout republican, and yet he receives from the
Ledger, fair treatment and good words news
paper here alleges that no paper In Louisville could
The Greeley movement has been a perfect success
In this respect that 1t has thoroughly
Il ", aH Mass OF TIE P4nTr
lucky would have expired some time ago but for
the mistaken zeal OF the friends OF the Louisville
Public Library, who were enabled to raise funds to
build the institution BY receiving several lottery
privileges from the state Legislature. They have
to see that the library has made nearly as many
enemies friends by this method, and throughout
the State there Is large element invncibly repug.
nant to the whole lottery system.
INDEPENDENT TICKETS
set up against the politicians are being run
through Tennessee and Kentucky, and generally
succeed IN breaking down the caucus tickets. It
would therefore seem that everything ID ripe In
this part Of the country for new reform party
which shall extirpate the democratic and republic
can organiza and which will forget the war and
all the principles which led to it. Both McCreery
| and Stevenson, the United States Senator's are
stanch for Greeley, and every Congressman in the
nation BY protesting against the Greeley move
ment. Kn0tt's brother Is at the Gait House,
| and he says that the author OF the celebrated
| as any IN the State. John @, breckenridge
Ia earnest also for Greeley, but he Is poor and out
of pOlltiCs. He Is President OF the Big Sandy Rail.