The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-26

nel0 hOSt3ge miles away, 10 get
money to live on and send to her
mother.
In two years Miss Abbott will return
prima donna, aud when she stands
in the Academy of Music, like Jenny
Lind, Isabella Hinckley, and Miss
Nilsson, hear her silver voice filling
the air like choir of angles, or hush
ing the audience TO a holy repose, the
big hearted, living christians, who, re-
membering our Saviour, put their
arms around this toiling woman and
helped her up, will say, 1T is more
blessed to give than to receive" aud
the world will say, "Of such is the
kingdom of heaven"
Mr.. Chaplin may read this to his con-
gregation il he chooses.
GRANTS DEATH BLOW.
Formal Nomination Of Horace Gree.
ley and d. Gratz Brown by the Demo.
cratic Convention at BaltimOrc-The
Cinc.nBati Platform Adopted by an
Almost UnantmOus Vete-An Inn.
m.nse Amount of Enthusiasm and
she Proceedings Singularly Har.
ment0us.
We copy below an extract Of the pro-
ceedings of the National Democratic
Convention which met at Baltimore on
The 9th inst, compiled from the full and
graphic reports of the Louisville Courier
Journal:
BALTIMORE, July 10, 2 A.. M.-The
Committee on Resolutions had three
hours discussion tonight, and finally
resolved, by vote of thirty-three to
four, to present the Cincinnati platform
unchanged to the National Democratic
Convention for adoption. The follow
States voted against the resolution !:
Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi, Oregon.
The following is the text of the reso-
luton of the committee: "We, the
Democratic electors of the United
States, assembled in National Conven-
ton at Baltimore, present the following
principles, already proclaimed at Gin
cinnati, as essential to just govern
ment." The Cincinnati platform is then
added.
Cassidy, of New York, proposed this
preamble. There was no serious dis
pute as to the main point of presenting
the platform, but the discussions were
upon the manner of doing it.
CALLED TO ORDER.
The Convention was called to order
by August Belmont, Chairman of Demo
crat National Executive Committee.
Mr.. Belmont said:
REMARKS OF MIR. BELMONT.
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTIONAL
is again my privilege to welcome the
delegates of the National Democracy,
who have met in order to present the
American people candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President, for whom they
solicit the suffrage of the Democratic
and Conservative voters of this great
republic. At our last National Conven-
tion, on the 4th of July '68, predicted
that the election of Gen. Grant would
result in the gradual usurpation of the
Government by the Executive and by
Congress, ,:tobe enforced by the bayonets
of military despotism. The vast ma jOr-
ity of the people of the United States
have witnessed with grief and sorrow
the correctness of that prediction, and
they look forward with fear and appre-
hension to the dangers which are
threatening us by the election of Gen.
Grant, if the pelicy thus far pursued by
the Radical party be continued. Think
ing men of both parties have become
alive to the fact that we are now living
under military despotism, over riding
civil authority in many States in the
Union that by the enactment of arbi
trary and unconstitutional laws through
the depraved majority in Congress, the
rights of these States are infringed and
trampled upon, and that C@sarism and
centralisation are undermining the very
foundations of our federal system, and
are sweeping away the constitutional
bulwarks erected by the wisdom of the
fathers of the Republic. These abuses
have become so glaring that the purest
and best men of the Republican party
have severed themselves from the Radi-
cal wing, which is trying to fasten upon
the country another four years. reign of
corruption, usurpation, and despotism.
And, whatever Individual opinion we
may entertain as to the. choice of the
candidates whom they have selected in
opposition to General Grant, there
can't be any doubt of the patriotic i'm
pulses which dictate their action, nor
can any fault be found with the plat
form of principles upon which they
have placed their candidates. The reso-
lutions of the Cincinnati Convention
are what the country require, and they
must command the hearty support of
every patriot throughout the vast extent
of our land. In the struggle which is
before us, we must look to principles
and not to men and I trust that no
personal prejudices will deter us from
doing our duty to the American people.
General Grant has been good and
faithful soldier during our civil war.
His stubborn, indomitable courage has
helped to crown the Union fields with
victory, and the American people have
rewarded his services with the most nm
bounded generosity. / am willing to
concede that his Intentions on taking
the Presidential chair were good and
patriotic, but he failed in the discharge
of the high trust imposed upon him by
the confidence of grateful people. He
is at this moment the very personifica-
tion of the mis-rule which is depressing
us, and his reelection is fraught with
the most deplorable consequences for
the welfare Of the republic and endan-
gers the liberty of our own people. On
the other hand Mr.. Greeley has been
heretofore bitter opponent of the
Democratic party, and the violent at
tacks against myself individually, which
have from time to time appeared in his
journal, certainly do not now entitle
him to any sympathy or preference at
my hands. But Mr. Greeley represents
the national and constitutional princi-
Piles of the Cincinnati platform, and by
his admirable and manly letter of ac-
ceptance he has shown that he is fully
alive to their spirit, and that if elected
he means to carry them out honestly
and faithfully. Should you therefore
in your wisdom decide to pronounce in
favor of the Cincinnati candidates,
shall for one most cheerfully bury all
past differences and vote for their cleo
ton with the same zeal and energy with
which have supported heretofore the
candidates of the Democratic party.
The American people look with deep
aolicikude tn vOur dalihorakionc II 10