The New York herald., 1872-07-10


THE VENERABLE HENRY sLICEB
was called upon to make the prayer. He is a
with large Roman nose, grim, old-lashioned,
aggressive Methodist manner and he Is said to be
eeas n tSs samore s Of the
Methodist Church. Sicer has been in his time
great Sontroyersalist arguing points of OF doctrine
been called ''The war horse Of Northern Method.
ism.n. in the Monumental City. The old gentle
vidua and quaint, and he literally appeared to be
wrestling with the Lord in favor OF conser-
Otto s and Effective S one, and conveyed p the
impression OF great sincerity and DEVOTION and the
be said S the Whole
or not the democrats have destroyed their past
record and demonstrated themselves to be an en-
tirey loyal, cheerful aud national political organ
iZatiOn.
THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION
had for It's anmating principle that timid and con-
scientious Character which entitled its delegates
respect, and as many OF them had been eminent in
the history Of the republican and abolition
organizations there was an unusual intellectu.
high breeding natural to idealsts which sci;
conventions. The nne, anxious face ofschurz; the
wry and body q 5a }hr the great II nef SS
had never stepped over Sa' the line Of mpersonai
journalism before, and the great union Of all sorts
Of previous impracticables and the apparently
that convention, perhaps, the most extraordinary
political body which ever undertook 30 big job in
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THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION
was rich, disciplined and mercantile looking body,
which came with the business resolution to nomi-
organization should not be abandoned, but kept in
trfm and that the South In no form should recover
ascendancy In politics for at least another gen.
Grafton. There was no contest at Philadelphia
the nominee and his portrait had been already pre-,
BY the scene Sitter as soon as the band had started
that music which 1t brought along N snrn @ certainty
rpfOrmerS aQitatOrS
the country, and at Philadelphia the successful
business class, and those who on the whole pre-
ferred an advantageous coalition between federal
commercial se19sitiyeness which :. :, Senator
npthEas nothEns was seS MORE cowardy than half @ mOn
except million; I ,,on. ao,,,,,,r,os
now in session, is In many respects no less remark.
able than the two conventions which have preceded
It, Here you viii find leading officers Of both armies
and men chastened in the school Of adverse politics
the past sixteen years. for some of these men we're
at outs with President Buchanan during, his whole
term, and have never belonged since that day to
AMONG THE s0uTHERNERs PRESENT
hundred to one thousand slaves, and
who are laboriously striving to rebuild
na their Gw
constitute the chief respectability OF the Baltimore
Convention. But hardly inferior, in point of de-
Of western men, who are hearty tired Of such de-
mocratic politics as they have had to defend since
the close Of the war. Many of them are newspaper
editors who find that to defend fossil politics is
personal injury to their circulation and legitimate
etor o S ol at ts Sass mr.
Herald.
It cannot be said that the Middle States and
| Eastern politicians approach the above classes
IN earnestness and dignity: Pennsylvania, on
| the WHOLE has shown as little force here as at
previous political conventions, and owes to Sam
| Randall and Henry Smith and men OF their shrewd
the yeo as as meq e
It is astonishing, therefore, to old democrats from
New Jersey, interior New. York and rural Pennsyl
vania TO see shat nobody has any
ENTHUSIASM At THE MENTION OF DEMOCRACY.
The title Of the party as stimulating proposition
care car ''' nothing iS whatever Tor the old party
name, and we find that in the democratic party OF
the present time the formidable admixture Of old
ment ever since they Joined the concern. Some OF
ws e
around after John NJ. clayton, making wing
cratic party will lose what they call its tme-hon.
ored consistency. Among the Intelligent men men
vey, who was for nearly a quarter of a
century correspondent at Washington Of that
the nomination Of David Davis, Of Cincinnati On
associate whig. Mr. Harvey was dsgusted with the
P%t,4o1. held out against the democratic endorse.
ment Of the same until about fortnight ago.
| said TO Mr.. Harvey us not THIS comic ~
| "Yes,' he said
.IT is PHENOMENON.
Nobody can score 1t up, or measure 1t or compre.
| hend 1t. But man must be a fool not TO see That
1t is perfect epidemic, and means to have its own
way"
| JERSEYS WAY.
Carrollton to-day and he said that In his be.
lief lief by Wednesday SY.I morning & the bulk 90 OF
ley ley would slIi also come around, and he did
not believe that above thirty votes would be cast
against Greeley altogether OF @ which fifteen might
perhaps, ten from New Jersey. The nomination of
Senator Doolittle for permanent chairman was the
final and complete blow to the straightout demo-
| Gratis.
DOOLITTLE's SPEECH
Doolitte had arrived IN the city but a short time
before he was made aware OF the honor to be
wrote out in manuscript his speech, which was one
Greeley that could have been contrved 1t de-
monstrated that, above all things, Mr. DO0ttle was
p0ca Knew ceSsp seGra man vsrT wn n
midable in speech. His address, which was partly
read and partly declamed, had an astonishing ef-
feet upon the Convention making many men vince
who had already fully prepared themselves to sup
port Greeley, for IT was not argument about the
policy of nominating him. but upon the high prin.
cple OF doing it. People, therefore, who had hailed
what is called the new departure" simply as a
themselves raised to the moral ground Of doing a
very patriotic thing. Indeed, this speech was In
almost every respect republican speech, and
exutation that Mr.. DOOlitte-whO had long been a
republican and a war man-felt, in merely seeing
the whole party come around to endorse his record.
He is, to look upon, square-set, heavy-brOwed,
powerful-looking man, with splendid voice and a
deliberate and even slow manner, and great bulky
force before an audience. He reviewed the history
Of the liberal movement In Missouri until It
he praised as one Of the purest bodies
| Of men that had ever gathered together.
He also used the term which have before quoted,
| Of republican democrats" and intimated that
they controlled a million OF votes. The inexpressI-
bic look OF defeat and humiliation the faces Of
the Delaware delegates while Mr.. Doolittle spoke
was curious to see, and the unmistakeable caclile
OF the rebel YELL which sounded like the screechng
Of the ill-omened owl, hailed every sentence.
| THE SOUTH UNDOUBTEDLY HAD THE CONVENTION.
Mr. DQaliflle escQrfal ~