Military satraps are invested with dictatorial powers, overriding the decisions of the courts and assuming the functions of the civil authorities; and now this same party which has brought all these evils upon the country comes again before the American people asking for their suffrages! And whom has it chosen for its candidate?
The General commanding the armies of the United States.

Can there be any doubt as to the designs of the Radicals if they should be able to keep their hold on the reins of government?
They intend Congressional usurpation of all the branches and factions of the Government, to be enforced by the bayonet of a military despotism." Apparently it never occurred to Mr.Belmont that each succeeding sentence of his speech carried with it its own disproof.

With loud voice and demonstrative manner, speaking in public before a multitude of people, with his words certain to be quoted in the press on account of the accident of his position, Mr.Belmont denounced the policy of our Government as more tyrannical than that of Russia or Austria.

What did Mr.Belmont suppose would have been his fate if on the soil of Russia or Austria he had attempted the slightest denunciation of the policy of those empires?
How long would he have ventured upon a tithe of the unrestrained vituperation which he safely indulged in here?
In his visions he now saw General Grant upholding a Congressional usurpation with bayonets.

Four years before, he saw in Mr.Lincoln's election "the utter disintegration of our whole political and social system amid bloodshed and anarchy." Mr.Belmont had evidently not proved a true prophet and did not aspire even to be a trustworthy historian.
Mr.Henry M.Palmer of Wisconsin, who was chosen temporary chairman, did not delay the Convention, and the organization was speedily completed by the election of Governor Seymour as permanent president.
He had filled the same position in the convention of 1864.