New-York tribune., 1872-06-07
oRl1oRS or THE CONTENTION

The Convention continued yesterday as it
had begun. It's members went to Philadelphia
to nominate Gen. Grant and for no other pur
pose. The delays arising from the exigencies
of the organization were felt TO be more irk-
some than they usually are in political con-
yention5 Two or three attempts were made
to fill up the time with speeches, but these
were so stale and improbable that the mem
bers cOughed them down and clamOred for
an opportunity to vote for Grant and go
home 1t became impossible at last to resist
this pressure and Gen. Grant was actually
nominated before the reports Of committees
were received.
The Convention was certainly not TO blame
in declining to be edited by the oratory which
was served TO it yesterday. One of the early
speakers was a Mr.. Carter of Texas, coached
by Mr.. Flanagan, who said his friend had led
a Rebel brigade. The Grant people take
pleasure in calling Mr.. Greeley the fayOrite of
the late Rebels, which we suppose is true.
But when Rebel declares for Grant the
matter never suffers from want of heralding.
This Carter must be a rare type of Rebel He
said he and his friends wanted ga strong
President, who would make them behave
"themselves' We doubt if Mr.. Carter could
find another man in the South, who
would confess himself such cur
az this. We do not know what blood runs
in the veins of Mr.. Carter, but such IN utter
ance has rarely fallen from the lips of an
AnglO-SaxOn. A delegate named Storrs from
Illinois was called out. His speech was a glO-
rGcatOn of carpet baggng, and so shocked
even that assembly that he was shouted off the
platform lie gave us the interesting fact
that only one man in the Illinois delegation
was born in the State, which Mr.. StOrrs ap-
peared TO think was o thing to boast of. He
ignored Gen. Schurz as a fellow citizen.' and
said &" ne had failed miserably in peace and
war :" which must be very distressing to
Gen. SchuZ.
Perhaps the most brilliant sally of the day
was from Mr. John b. Henderson of Missouri.
formerly better known than he is now. He
naturally thinks very meanly of men who
have driven him from public life; but though
he has lost his position, he has not lost his
wit. He said Gen. Schurz was :" going TO
Europe for a supply of pretzel-seed.' We
read that this dazzling wtticism was
followed with great meTriment Gen. Noyes
of Ohio then came forward and said bluntly
that there was nothing 70 do but to nominate
Grant and go home. He said, also what will
be soothing to the feelings of MesSrs. Mat
thews and Cox that there were no Liberal
Republicans in Ohio, except few who were
"ashamed of themselves, and stronger friends
&" of Grant than ever Are we to infer from
this that when a man is suffering from con-
viction of disgrace there is no place for him
but in the Grant party
Our Mr.. Woodford spoke in that facile strain
of sentiment which is natural TO him, of Mr..
Stanton's love and trust for Gen. Grant, which
seems TO be the only answer the Adminstra-
ton people can make to Mr., Summers crush
ing arraignment 1t is very well for poetry,
but every one knows that Mr. Stanton had no
such blind trust i'll any human being "A Mr..
Woodford would have us believe he cherished
for Cen Grant. Making Republican speeches in
the canvass of 1863, of course he spoke ciyilly
of the candidate. But that proves nothing
against his repeated expressions of personal
opinion the other way. What if everybody in
that Convention would open his bosom and
say what he thinks Of Summers sDeechf We