Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-04

true representative of the principles OF
the equality Of all men and of exact justice
to ali men, the true representative OF the
principles that must triumph in genuine re-
Union, to be secured not by the bayonet
but by the mutual regard and mutual guar
antee Of reciprocal rights and benefits, an
honest man, the constitutional foe to thieves
" no must be driven from national as well
sss municipal authority as the first step to
the real civil service reform we pledge our
selves to win, lifelong laborer and associ-
ate of laborers with whom the rights of the
Tgorkingme will be sure Of all needful re-
card, a public man whose commanding
ability the nation has long recognized and
s. leader whose name we welcome as the
1Watchword Of victory.
4. That we recognize in Gov. 3. GratZ
Brown, of Mo-, a chivalrous statesman,
the whole of whose public life proves him
the fit associate of Greeley in the task ex-
tending to the whole Union the work so
well done in his own State, giving back
power to the people. peace to the nation and
purity to the government.
5. That we hail the general approval of
the Cincinnati platform and ticket, and the
particularly enthusiastic support of both
throughout the South as promising to lift
our politics out of the dangerous ruts of sec
tionalism wherein they have too long run,
and to bury out of sight the hates and con-
troversies of the war.
6. That we welcome the cooperation OF
all parties in the work of reunion and re-
form to which the Cincinnati ticket is dedi-
Gated and to which we pledge by an over
whelming majority the vote of this city and
Empire State.
The list Of Vice Presidents includes
Erastus Brooks, Ben. Wood, Geo. Wilkes,
5ohn r. Porter, Moses 81. Grinnell, Gideon
j. Tucker, Richard Schell, Frederick A.
Conkling, Waldo Eutchins, Thomas E.
Stewart, Horace T. Clarke, John McKeon,
T. G.. Glanbenskleer, Elbridge T. Gerry,
Elijah Ward, e. A. Lamont and hundreds
Of others.
Senator Upton,
of Nebraska, was the first speaker. He
said these are strange times on which we
have fallen. The telegraph informs US that
to-day at noon the great orator Carpenter,
of Wisconsin, appeared on the floor Of the
United States Senate to demolish Sumner
and Schurz. The speaker went on to de-
nounce Grants administration on the
ground that it sought to make all men who
were war Republicans before, war Repub-
licans after the war, when slavery, the real
cause Of the war, had been abolished. lip
ton denounced the course pursued by the
present administration towards the South,
and said we want men at the head of the
Government to represent the living issues
Of the day. Sumner, of Massachusetts,,
speaks, lives to-day, the representative of
of the sentiment of the Republican party.
Col. Alex. Mcclure,
Of Pennsylvania on being introduced greet
ed with enthusiastic plause. He said the
last great battle OF our civil war was about
10 be fought. The paramount duly devolv-
ing on the government after the war was
to heal the scars of discord and battle, as
the earnest wish of the people was to res
tore a distracted and bleeding country to
fraternity and prosperity. The speaker
claimed that this grand object had not been
attained, mainly in consequence of the in
capacity of the member of the cabinet, who
had been instead of statesmen merely
Gift Bearers and Flatterers.
Incompetency, venality and shame have
been logical results of unblushing nepotism
and the appointment of unscrupulous men.
Col. Mcclure urged that the supreme dan
ger threatening the people was the purpose
Of the administration to enforce an unmixed
centralized government. He thought am
nesty should be universal and civil authority
supreme in every State of the Union.
Gen. Fitzpatrick
spoke at length, expressing his belief that
the great political parties were dissolving,
and the political lines that so long separated
honest men were being sponged out. Hon
est Democrats and honest Republicans are
standing side by side, and the people are
determined to commit the government to
new and pure hands. The election OF
Greeley will break up that close corpora
tion which assumes to possess all the politi-
cal virtue of the country, tear down the false
barrier which assumes to separate loyalty
from treason, and bring together men of
all sections and parties to destroy that sec
tional spirit which forces the passions OF
war into civil life when the war itself is
ended, and to bring about real union OF
honest men from the North and the South
when the past shall be forgotten and buried,
Robert X. Roosevelt,
in brief speech, gave reasons why he as a
Democrat and why other Democrts can sus-
tain Greeley, can nominate him at Balti.
more and help to elect him afterwards.
A letter was read from Senator Fenton.
The OHice.HOlders Gathering.
PHILADELPHIA, June 3.-The arrivals
of delegates have been very numerous dur
ing the night The hotels are crowded. The
Continental Hotel is headquarters for most
of the delegations. The entire Louisiana
delegation are stopping there. The coloreC
delegates are pleased with this as well q:
the universal courtesy extended to them by
prominent Republican friends. COlfaS
counts 2S0 votes for Vice President on the
first ballot. Morton McMichael, of the
Pennsylvania delegation, is mentioned a;
temporary chairman.
P. M.-The influx of delegates and 9th
ers to the convention to-day has been very
large, although up to tonight scarcely hal
of the Republicans of many Of the States
notably of the Western States, have arrived
Delegates come in by small squads, and nc
| State as yet is fully represented. This il
supposed to be attributable to the fact thai
| the work of the convention is merely form
a., the nomination of Grant having beer
satisfactorily settled by conventional in
structions. Philadelphia has made every
preparation to make the gathering, in point
| of enthusiasm and numbers, one of the
first ever held in this country. A national
convention of politicians has not been held
here before since Fremont and Dayton were
/ nom 'naied.
The Vice Presidency seems to be about
the only question in dispute. That Grant
will be nominated by acclamation unani.
mously is everywhere conceded, but a
strong determined opposition to Colfax ex-
lists, and it is difficult to speculate on the
result of the contest. Colfax has very warm
! supporters among the dele
gates of New England, and viii have
st the start 1874 votes instructed for him
Lesides scattering votes which will proba-
bl7 run him up to about 200 out of an en-
| tire ballot of 734 votes. He will probably
pick I'D at least fifty more on the first bal
lot. possibly more, if he receive any
support from the South. II is be-
| Iieyed, however, that Henry Wilson wi
develope greater strength among the South,
ern delegation than any other name which
NAV come before the Convention 1t i:
not thought that either John d. Harlin, oi
Kentucky, John f. Lewis, Of Virginia, oI
Horace Maynard, Of Tennessee, whose
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