Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-30

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Those intending to participate In the
convention are requested to enroll their
names at their State headquarters during
Tuesday, and the number there enrolled
will be reported to the person having charge
Of the enrolment in each State, not later
than nine O'Clock Wednesday morning TO
the Chairman of the Executive Com
hall. A corresponding number of tickets
will then be delivered to the person having
charge of the enrolment for each State and
by him distributed at S,ate headquarters at
10 O'Clock to those whose names have been
enrolled. These tickets viii admit to the
body of the hall. By order of the Executive
Committee. WM. GRosvENOR,
Chairman.
COVingtOn = Severe Arraignment of
the administration.
A Liberal Republican meeting, some
three hundred persons present, was held
tonight at Covington. d. l.. Phillips, Of
Illinois, aIraigned the Administration as
being responsible for the disorganized con-
ditiOn of affairs in the South, and as up
holding the carpet-baggers in misleading
the negroes in order to obtain universal
power and universal plumber, creating debts
that prevent immigration, that impose bur
dens without equivalent values, that almost
bankrupt States. He charged that men
who could not, in the North, be elected as
Constables, had gone South as carpet-baggers
who had no social or pecuni3Ty standing at
home, and been elected Congressman and
United States Senator by associating with
and wheedling negroes, by being, IN the
phrase Of the day, ''sweet on them," and
that the national Administration had hon
ored such men by giving them flee when
kicked out of their places. He declared
that never until a few years ago had mill
tary officers been detailed to fill civil offices
while retaining their rank md pay; that
Sickles, Colonel in the reg <army, had
been detailed to represent the United States
at Madrid.
CassiUs n. Clay
said twelve or more years had passed since
last he had addressed Kentucky audience.
Since then great changes had taken place
in all lands-nOne greater than in this, per-
haps. The colored citizen who sat on his
right was then a slave. Had he thought
that all he had done for emancipation and
equality before the law was to end In cen.
tralization, he would have considered his
time wasted. He had advocated the abo-
lition of slavery on two grounds: It's right /
fulness and its expediency. Five million
slaves had been the South's weakness in the
war. 1t had prevented q divided in
dustry, machine shops, machinery,
skilled labor. II possessed of these
the South might have stayed in
or gone out of the Union at choice, and
would not have been the conquered people
they were to-day. The policy of the ad-
ministration prevented industrial reorgani-
zatlOn, but the sovereignty of States sur
viged. The government was founded on
the sovereignty of the States. 1t could not
have been intended to destroy any State.
There was no necessity for nor Justice in the
reconstruction that destroyed the sovereign
ty of the States. Those who stand by these
principles are stigmatized as Otli ioe-seekers,
but Kentucky and the whole South stand on
this platform. He would say
a word to the colored vo-
terS of the South. Was it their interest to
persist in remembering that they bad been
slaves and that they had had masrers? II |
was wrong to keep up this war of races. !
Suppose they should support the party of
scallawags, the time may come in the
changes of parties when they might suffer
in legislation. He advised them not to let
slip the present opportunity TO secure re-
Cancellation aud the death Of sectional
ism. He was for principle, and any good
man would suit him as candidate WHO
stood on his principles.
SS.
LOUISVILLE, KY, ApR. The Louis
vile and Cincinnati Short Line Railroad
has put down the price of tickets from
Louisville to Cincinnati and return, to the
convention. Tickets are now sold at So for
the round trip.
Charles Sumner Heard From.
WASHINGTON, April 29-James NJ. ScO-
vile, chairman of the Cincinnati delegation
from West Jersey, breakfasted with Chas.
Sumner yestel day. The Senator from Mas
sachusetts will go to Cincinnati, but does
not hesitate. He hopes the Cincinnati
platform will finally and forever close the
issues settled by war. He hopes it will re-
assert the essential principles of the declar-
alton of the fathers, and declares openly
for civil rights Massachusetts will be ably
represented by such men as Francis Bird,
AtkilI on, Endicott and others.
The Democratic National Convention.
The Patriot this morning publishes an
article understood to be the result of an in
formal conference of leading Democratic
Senators, last night, denying Adams as the
first or even second choice of Democrats,
or would be accepted by them more readily
than Brown, Cox, Davis, or TrumbuLl.
The Patriot says that in any event the
Democratic Convention viii be held, and
It's conclusions accepted by the party.
The Albany Argus.
ALBANY, april 29.-The drglLs has an
article on the subject of the Cincinnati Con-
vention, which distinctly repudiates, in the
name and part [of the DemOcracy,l the re-
cent assumptions of the New York World.
After acknowledging the h gh personal and
public character of Mr. Adams, which even
his ungracious letter cannot affect, it goes
on to say: "We will not initiate the fault
we censure by assuming to pledge the De-
mocracy of the State for any candidate but,
for our own part, we feel and We find that
SO many participate in the sentiment that
we regard it as general, that the relations
of the Democracy of New York are with
the great West. For public man to have
lived in the valley of the Mississippi, and
shared it's growth and development, and
anticipated its destiny, is almost Demo
cratic education. If the Democratic party
is to take part in political revolution, it
must ally itself with the generous and
growing West where lies the future Of the
Republic, and not with sections that have
lost their energy and enthusiasm and dwell
only in the dead past"
From Gotham.
New YORK, April 29.-The Tribune says
an extra train which left by the Erie r. r.
last evening was fully as large as that of
Saturday evening and crowded with dele
gates from this, West Chester and Putnam
counties. The latter reported very fayora-
bly, OF the feeling in their respective districas.
Some mentioned assurances of sympathy
from leading Republicans, few Of whom.
however. refrained from taking an active
pant at present. Most seemed TO feel
that the greatest care should De exercised by
the convention in selecting the candidate