The Portland daily press., 1872-07-09
Baltimore Ratification Meeting.

Perley, the veteran correspondent of the Bos-
ton Journal, give full particulars of the sights
and movements the day before the Convention,
from which the following extracts are taken:
A SOLEMN CROWD.
We have cool, pleasant morning here. and
the delegates were up in good season to ENJOY
their cocktails and see who had arrived by the
early trains Thus far there is no unusual crowd
and every one appears sad and solemn, especially
the portly old fellows of the Nasty type, whose
only consolation appears to be the narration of
the cruel treatment inflicted upon Southern
gentlemen by Gen. Grant since he has been
President. p ~
HARD DRINKING.
Never within my recollection have l seen
such drinking as is going on here, and to show
that the bibnlous prOpensties of delegats are
appreciated, two extra bars have been erected
in the theatre, where the Convention will meet
Tomorrow No one can question Mr.. Greeleys
assertion in the Tribune a few years since, that
"if to smoke is Democratic virtue, to chew is
that virtue intensified, to drink rum is that vir
tue in the superlative."
coNFEDERATEs TO THE FRONT
A notable feature of this Convention is the
number of those who took a prominent part in
the late ''unpleasantness." Take for example
the Virginia delegation. The list is headed by
Thomas S. Babcock, who has served as Speaker
of both the Federal and Confederate Houses of
Representatives. He is still laboring under the
disabilities incurred by participating i'll the re-
bellion. Fitzhugh Lee is nephew of Gen.
Lieut.. Gov of Virginia. Robert Guild was United
States Attorney for the District of Columbia
prior to the war, and has served as a member of
the Virginia Senate since. During the war he
acted as Confederate Commissioner for the ex-
change of prisoners. ID. c. De Jarnete was a
member of both the Federal and Confederate
Congresses. S. H. Moffatt was Douglass
Democrat in the Charleston Convention. JEFF
ferson Randoplph is the grandson of Thomas
Jefferson, and is his literary executor. He is
70 years of age, and is six feet seven inches in
| height. Bradley T. johnson is Marylander,
whose services to the Confederate cause are
| well known, and who is now citizen of Rich
| mond.
REVIVAL OF "THE LOST CAUSE"
| Nearly every other Southern State has sim
liar representation of those who were identified
| with the Confederacy, and who look for a resur-
| rection of ''the lost cause" Among them is e.
Barksdale of Mississippi, warm personal and
political friend of Jefferson Davis, who is the
editor of the Clarion which always sounds the
KEYNOTE for the ex-Presidents friends to fol-
low. In the Alabama delegation is Major Gen
| eral WiJhers of the Confederate States Army,
| who is now the editor of the Mobile Tribune
Immediately after the nomination of Greeley
and Brown he hoisted their names at the head
| of his paper and declared his intention to sup
| port them, irrespective of the action of the
Democratic party. He was elected delegate
over John FOrsaith, editor of the Mobile Reg
lister, present member of the national Demo-
| cratic Executive Committee, who came out in
opposition to Greeley, but who will not remain
hard-hearted. t
| . CONVENIENT MANUAL. ~.
| There will be a book published, however, in
fortnight or so, showing "vhat Horace Gree
| ley knows" on the prominent topics of the day,
which will be of value to Republican speakers
and editors, for whose use it has been compiled
from the files of the Trjcune and Mr.. Greeley s
| published works. The idea that any publica-
ton would change the opinions of the delegates
sent here expressly to nominate Greeley is sim
| ply ridiculous. 3D..
| THE MIssOURIANs IN COUNCIL.
| The Missouri delegation is holding an ami
| mated meeting, the subject of discussion being
the action recently taken by that delegation at
St Louis on the ID inst, to adhere to "no
nomination" policy 1t is expected this action
will be reconsidered; at least that seems to be
the opinion of the leading men among the dele
| gates Va ~ ## Ha-IE#G
| REGULAR NOMINATION AS PREVENTATIVE
| r--...-- OF BOLTING.
| Governor Walker of Virginia, advocates the
adoption of two-thirds rule and all other Demo-
cratic practices observed in the former Conven-
| tons. He unhesitatingly gives it as his Opn-
mally in keeping with all of these rules, so that
| Democrats who recognize their instructions of
the Convention through the nomination thus
| positively given, can have no excuse if any were
desired for boiling, as they might have if he
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