Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-29
POLITICAL.

1 The New England Woman Suffrage
! Association held its annual convention
| yesterday in Boston. William Lloyd
Garrison presided.
Work on the great wigwam in Phila-
/ delphia, on Broad street above Arch,
was commenced yesterday. The building
is being erected by the Central Hartraft
Club, and will seat three thousand per
| sons A great ratification meeting will
/ be held in il following the action of the
National Convention.
At the Republican Convention for the
! Seventh District, held at Lafayette, In
diana, yesterday, Hon. Judge Carson, of
] Lebanon, was nominated for Congress
! on the fourteenth ballot. NJ. d. White
of Montgomery county, w. G. Wilson
of TppecanOe county, and b. f. Greg
ory of Warren county, We're prominent
| candidates.
The Republican Convention in Pitts
| burg Yesterday nominated General J. S.
! Negley for Congress, Of the Twenty
| second district, and Josh Graham, of
I the Twenty-thiTd district. H. H. Nc
1 Cormick, J. 5. Wainwright, j. w. Bal
| langer, H. X. Sample and J. d. Ram
say were nominated for the State Legis-
lature.
The State Register, of Springfield,
Illinois, yesterday published a list Of
seventeen Republican papers in Illinois
which have unequivOcally declared for
| Greeley and Brown. The same paper
says that to-day it will contain a list of
| six German papers in that State, which
have likewise declared for the Cincin-
natl nominees.
The Washington Patriot says: "Judge
| David Davis replied to the nomination
made by the Labor Reform Convention
at Columbus, Ohio, that the Chief Mag
I istTacy Of the republic should neither be
4 sought nor declined by an American
citizen The statement now being cir
ellated by his opponents that be has
/ Withdrawn from the canvass, is, we be-
lieve, without authority or foundation"
Charles Sumner, in letter to the La
/ Dor Union in Boston, yesterday, in-
/ dorsed the eight-hOur movement upon
the sole principle that it would give to
the workingmen more time for the edu-
/ cation and moral elevation of the work
ing-classes. He did not consider the
point of wages, as he believed the moral
and intellectual elevation of the me-
chanic of far more imT Ortance than dol
lars and cents.
The Boston Post says: 'Mr. Greeley's
honesty of purpose counts a great deal
for him, and it is freely suggested that
1 with a Well-chosen cabinet he could put
the Union on the right track again.
With G. f. Adams, say, for Secretary of
State, there would be no paltering in our
foreign policy; with Trumbull as Seere-
tary Of the Treasury, there would be no
miserly boarding of gold or ruinous
fluctuations in the money market; with
Hancock as Secretary of War, the rec
ords of the department would not be
mysteriously missing; with Cox as Sec
retary of the Interior, civil service re-
form would not gasp fer life; while if
these names were not sufficient, a splen-
did talent would remain for his mparti-
san choice. There are DOolittle, COwan,
Hendricks, Schurz, the silver-tongued;
Thurman, whose logic and strength of
intellect are familiar in every State;
Governor Parker, whose wise policy in
New jersey has excited such commend
alton; Governor Seymour, Of New
York; Palmer, of Illinois; English, of
Connecticut; Atkinson, EndicOtt and
Others, of Massachusetts,.
Sometime before Grant was elected
President, many letters were written by
prominent politicians and Others, show
ing his utter unfitness for the position
Among the more notable of these was
one from Admiral Porter, and the fol-
lowing from Beast Butler, which proves
that very Objectionable person to be pos
sessed Of ability sufficient to read Alright
the character Of Grans
aBAY VUE, NEAR LANEsyILLE, MASS,
August 2o, 1867. ! II
"MY DEAR SIR-I have read your
letter to Mr.. Smith on the proposed
nomination of Grant with much inter-
est. Its criticisms on Grants career are
lust; but what will you dO?-yOu cannot
get it OF anything else concerning Grant,
that is not laudatory, published; and
why2 Because both sides are couTting
him for the Presidency, and 50 the truth
must not be told. We are, fear, to try
the experiment again that We did with
johnson, l. e., nominate man for sup
posed availability, without knowing his
principles or fitness. Grants election
will be misfortune, because it lOiN put
tll a man l0ita0t9 a head oT.heGTt; igldit-
fere''tto 6a'Daop stlesrissg, and tDapOteIat
to goUeTn.
81 am yours, truly,
| IGEE- ON dBENJ. +. BUTLER"
W. Jones, Neenah, Wisconsin"