Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-02-29
TIE MISSOURI CONVENTION.

The republican convention in Missouri
last week promises reunion of the party
in that State under the regular organiza-
ton. Judging by its proceedings we
conclude that the following of Schurz and
Brown has mostly fallen off. The move
ment which they led vas stimulated by
local questions. which cease to operate
when national policies are paramount
Very few of their followers probably sus-
pected that their bolt was for more than
temporary purpose, hence when it is dis
closed that the object of Schurz and Brown
is n permanent alliance with the demo-
Gratis, the leaders are Abandoned
The convention was the largest ever
held in the State. Every county was re-
presented. The greatest harmony pre-
vailed. The principles of the republican
party and the administration were en-.
dorsed. What with this grand popular
union demonstration in Missouri and the
stripping of the mask from Schurz in the
Senate, the liberals are suffering badly.
Their experience will be like that of others
who have attempted to lead republicans
over to the enemy. If any man could
have led the party away into strange
paths, that man was William II. Seward,
but how miserably he failed all know.
Trumbull and Schurz will meet similar
fate. The Missouri Democrat, the leading
republican paper of the State, speaks of
the convention as follows:
If there were doubts before as to the unity
and integrity of the republican party in Mis-
souri,, the events of yesterday at Jefferson
City must have dispeled them; if there were
those who feared on the one hand, or hoped
on the other, that the treachery of few had
produced the detection of many, they may
turn to the record of yesterdays Convention
and learn how little there was of cause for
such fear or foundation for such hope. Speak
ing for ourselves, we can say that although
the measure of our expectations was great,
the measure of their fufllment is still great
err. We dared not predict what has come to
pass; we dared not look for a success so much
greater than has ever before been witnessed
in this State, that it seems to have been
heightened and intensified by the very circum-
stances which, to many, occasioned alarm
and foreshadowed Encouragement TO say
that the Convention was successful, in the
ordinary acceptation of that word, is but to
feebly express what all who witnessed it so
strongly feel. 1t was far more than successful;
it was characterized by dignity Of action,
harmony of feeling and such degree of en-
thusiasm a can be born only of the conscious
ness of a great purpose, and the inspiration
of patriotic motive. 1t revived the scenes
of ten years ago, when the noblest cause that
ever enlisted human effort found voice in the
noblest thoughts that were ever crystalized in
human speech. Such assemblages are not
often convened, and when they come together
they mark epOchs in our political history,
more valuable as forewarnings of the future
than as expressions of the present. Republi-
can success was al much achieved as predic-
ted in the Chicago Wigwam OF 1860. The
men who met together there had won the
battle before they had yet sounded the call to
arms. 1t is so as to Missouri, where as great
a contest must be fought on smaller field.
purpose SO well announced and SO grandly de-
termincd is the sure forerunner of the mighty
deed itself. Victory so resolved upon is
almost achieved.
The proceedings of the Convention, which
we print at great length elsewhere, will in
tercst the reader in their detail as well as in
their general purport. All conspire to the
same end--the recognition and Endorsement
of Republican principles for the purpose of
good government in the State and in the Ma.
ton. Every county in the State was fully |
represented, making it, numerically, the
largest convention ever held in Missouri.
There was the fullest liberty of opinion, and
so great was the unity of purpose, that at no