The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-09-13
The louisville Convention.


The above concern, which occupied {
good deal Of space IN the papers for (
month or two past, closed is labor
without achieving anything calculated
TO slarilc nature or alarm the world
Gins, OtonOr, Of New York, VA. nom
mated for President, aud John Quincy
Adams, Of Massachusetts, for Vie,
President. Both these gentlemen, how
ever, upon being notified of the distin
gui'hcd honor rendered them, positive
~ declined 10 accept, and the Convcn
vcntion, disappointed and demoraized
adjourned withou, maSing other nomi
nations. $50 fades u summer cloud
away, so sinks the gale when storms ar,
o'cr.' 1t was u splendid failure as tc
any apprcciablc result, and the adyan,
,agcs which the Radicals expected tC
reap from it have vanished into moth
iugncss. The following, from the Con-
rjer JoUlWoi, furnishes as much on til,
subject as our readers will perhaps car,
to see:
/ The convention of the straight outs i.
/ over, though the agonies of the party
have Just begun. They have done Il
good work in one sense only. The cuun.
try was in II bad humor over the cXtrav.
aganccs aud cOrruplions OF the admin,
iStration, and needed butt. The
straight-outS have supplied that want
and the nation is in u broad grin. which
will develop into 4 regular and irlcpres.
sable guinw before November. The
city of Louisville has been laughing
heartily for the past three days. Proba'
bly, better farce could not have been
connected by any of the writers for til,
comic stage. Such u mixture of dele.
gates was perhaps never before seen in
convention which pretended to be re.
preventative body. They were "back
spirits aud white, blue spirits and grey.
some OF them Grant men, some simply
preicrring Grant TO Greeley, n very few
patriotic but mistaken Democrats, aud
in fact, almost every class OF politicians
aud not single man of national rcputa.
ton among them.
The proceedings were generally order
~ enough, but at times fcariully uprUar-
Gus. and but for the iirinneSs and persc-
vcrancc Of the chairman, the convention
would have run riot over every parlia-
menlary rule. The whole affair was
managed bv ring. and was worked
in the interest of the New York delega-
ton who mean TO make it useful in the
local politics of that city. The dcceiv.
ed delegates, who were not behind the
scenes, are, many Of them, furious at
being sold out to the New Workers.
Some of them say that Cot. Duncan
made 4 transfer, and cXecratc him &C.
cordingly. Others are disguised with
the proceedings on different grounds,
and are seriously disappointed in the re-
suit Those delegates who speak frank
~ on the subject are free to acknOw-
ledge that the whole affair is dead fail.
urc, and even if O'Connor is induced
to run he can have no influence under
The circumstances. Several who were
interviewed Yesterday evening dcclar.
red that have now no candidate. They
said that when they nominated O'Con,
nor the matter was entirely in his hands.
and his refusal TO run made vacancy
on the ticket. The refusal of John q.
Adams to run unless O'Connor was on
the ticket made the other place vacant
and left them without q nominee
These vacancies the convention did not