The Portland daily press., 1872-05-09


no other, he is incompetent to speak for the
'1oyal vote" ~
Ex-President johnson regards as prepos-
ferrous the proposition for the Democratic
party to support the nominee of the. Cincinna
ii Convention. ...-,., .--,-f...-
III The Philadelphia Press says that after a
careful reading of the utterances of several
hundred journals, it is impressed with the
fact that Greeley, instead of dividing the Re-
publican party, has rent the Democracy in
twain.
Washington Matters.
THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE CINCINNATI TARIFF
sar &C.,. PLANK. -,f
Among the reports brought back from Gin
cinnati, is one to the effect that Messrs. David
Wells and Edward Atkinson will in day or
two publish card giving the true history of
the tariff plank in the platform of the recent
convention. That portion of the declaration
was telegraphed by the subcommittee having
it in charge to Mr.. Greeley, who returned a
strong disapproval, declaring it an evasion and
subterfuge unworthy any party. The full COM
the subcommittee, and the candidate is placed
on platform not altogether to his taste. Mr.
Wells, it is stated, will publish Mr.. Greeley's
original despatch. 80 fsgo- Erl4
VARIOUS MATTHRs. Al
An important conference of Senators with
few prominent outside Republicans was held
in the Vice Presidents room at the Capitol
Tuesday afternoon to discuss the political stu
alton and the proper course in view of the Gin
cinnati Convention. The result of the meeting
was decision to hold a moderate and concilia-
tory tone toward the Republicans calling them
selves liberal, p" to unite the party as far as
possible upon the candidate of the Philadel-
phia convention. The President has been in
formed of the conference and its purport.
Judge Mercur has been authorized to re-
port from the committee bill prohibiting I'M
der heavy penalties the transmission of obscene
publications in the mails within the District of
Columbia, which is at present without any
statute of that kind - aHl n'ol 5iAi{
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The TARIFF BrLL.-Tuesday the House fol-
lowed the lead of Mr.. Dawes, Chairman of the
Ways and Means and nullified the bill of the
majority, and put the bill of the Kelley pro-
tectionists out of the way, substituting in the
place of both the following amendment
THAT on and after the day and year when
this act shall take effect in lieu Of the
duties imposed by law the articles in
this section enumerated, there shall be levied,
collected and paid on all goods, wares
and merchandise in this section enumera-
ted and provided for imported from foreign
countries, ninety per cent. of the several du-
ties and rates Of duty now imposed by law up
on said articles severally. it being the intent of
this section to reduce existing duties on said ar
ticles ten per cent, of said duty, that is to say
on all manufactures of cotton, or of which cot
ton is the component part of chief value; on
all woods, hair of the alpaca goat and other
animals and all manufactured wholly or in
part of wool or hair of the alpaca and other
animals; on all iron and manufactures of
which iron is the component material of chief
value; excepting cotton machinery; on all
metals, not herein and otherwise provided for
and on all manufactures of metal, of which
either of them is the component part of chief
value; ON all manufactures of India rubber,
gutta percha or straw, and on oil cloths of all
descriptions, provided that the rate of duty up
on umbrellas, parasols and sunshades shall in
no case be less than is imposed upon goods of
the same material and quality as the coverings
thereof" I8Ini ama- 10l loli Tsm sw ~
The next question was upon substituting Mr..
Dawes amendment for the proposition of Mr.
Kelley, and it was agreed to by vote of one
hundred and eleven to seventy-seven. On this
proposition the New England members are re-
corded as follows: E,.. ...,...r...,.,
Yes-Messrs. Barnum, Burlington, Dawes,
Frye, Hale, Hubbard, Parker, Peters, Smith,
Strong and Twichell ifi-9 ,sa7 D9T,II
TNays.-Messrs. Ames, Banks, Bell, Brooks,
Croker, Eames, Hoar, Pendleton, Poland and
Willard il fac ~ e1tl2 s'V EJ76
The question then REQUIRED upon directing
the bill to be reported back as amended, which
was also agreed to by vote of one hundred
| and seventeen to seventy-five In this propo-
sition the New England members.are recorded
as follows: 9di Eoi iiai isaT 9golo9 40
Yes.-Messrs. Barnunl, Buffnton, Butler.
Dawes, Frye, Hale, Hubbard, Hoar, Kellogg,
Parker, Peters, Smith, Strong and Twitchell y
Nays.-Iessrs Ames, Banks, Bell, Brooks,
Croker, Eames. Pendleton, Poland, Stark
weather and Willard. 3Se9,yra31 b'yie
The Democrats, who had nearly unanimous.
ly voted for the greatest decrease of duty, gen.
orally voted aye on the proposition. Mr..
Kelley and nearly all of his colleagues from
Pennsylvania voted no. Itzes.' .2nIquli
The New York Evening Post still dwells up
on the unfitness of MI. Greeley for the Presi-
dency. In its leader of Tuesday evening it
says: i'''i-'' 'H' =
the Shareholders first threatened revolt. he
would have shown greater weakness than that
which has rendered Mr.. Buchanan almost in
Famous for Buchanan simply denied the right of
tne national government to coerce a state, while
Mr. Greeley maintained that the seccessionists
ought to be allowed to go in peace This was
no hasty and impatient outbreak of sentiment,
but fixed conviction, which likened their re-
volt to that OF our fathers in the revolution If
Mr. Greeley had been the President after the
disaster of Bull Run, that temporary success of
the insurgents would have brought about a to-
tai surrender of the North. He was SO linn.
haccid detected, broken down by that event,
that he Lay supine and sprawling upon the
floor, with no more stiffness in him than there
is III an empty sack; and in that spirit he wrote
bis pusillanimOus card of the next day. signed
ID. u. At moment when the nation was
shrouded in gloom and every manly voice was
lifted to encourage it and quicken its recovery
this one voice sounded a base and despicable
cry of alarm and retreat. What would have
been the effect had the possessor of it been high
in authority? see susI--E .e' 49, ,-.5leTE =
Again, in 1864, when perhaps the most deli
cate and trying crisis of our history had arriv-
ed; When the Bourbon Democrats were near
producing reaction in the sentiments of the
North when everything depended upon the
nrmness and consistency with which public
opinion at home supported the efforts of our
brave boys in the field; when Lincoln, Stanton.
summer, Grant, Sherman and the whole loyai
community were making almost superhuman
ehueaVorS 10 give hnal stroke to the rebellion.
stroke which would bring about not only a
cessation of hostilities, but the other glorious
results we have since attaned--if Mr. Greeley
had been the President, instead of Abraham
Lincoln, we should have had mona of this pa-
triotic exerton with its grand fruits, but ped
ding negotiations ON the Canada frontier with
the Clays and Sanderses and others, in which
emancipation was to be bought by money, and
not won as a right 1rsl,-O-lsd1' .a1.f
But it will be said that it is these and ether
services which make Greeley popular at the
South, where even the late rebels themselves
will come to his support. If they do, it must
be at the expense of all their recolleetious.
Since the war, Greeley has been an active ad-
yocate OF every Objectionable measure of recon-
struction, and that most despotic, insulting and
dangerous of all our legislation, the Ku-Klux
bills, has found no reader supporter than he.
That any self-respecting southern gentleman,
that any honest opponent of tyranny and CEN
tralism should be willing to accept Greeley as
his chief, would be even infinitely more strange
than the acquiescence of the Democrats in his
nomination, and the congratulations of Chase
and Trumbull. For there is there must be-
something like truth, honor, consistency in po-
litics; it is not chase of shadows, mere
game of shuffie-a race for success; there are
deep and awful principles of justice which lie
at the bottom, and which men who love THEN
country, who respect themselves, who study the
future, are bound to regard.
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