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afterwards by a very fluent speaker, who took much
lower ground, and declared that " Lincoln was a
common man, an ordinary man, a labouring man ;
that a republican form of government required no
other kind of man for a chief magistrate, and that
it was the glory of the country that any hewer of
wood or drawer of water was fit to be a President."
This kind of talk went on all day yesterday, con•
tinned till midnight, and was resumed this morning,
and will doubtless last out the day, until the Con.
vention assembles for the first time for the transac.
tiara of business.
All these preliminaries are but interludes to
pass the time and to amuse the people. In the
intervals the several delegations meet in secret to
compare notes and draw up plans for the more im•
portant procedure of the evening. In one thing
only are the delegations from all the States agreed,
which is, that Mr. Lincoln shall be nominated for
President. Whom to place upon the same ticket for
Vice-President is as yet undecided. Mr. Hamlin,
the actual Vice-President, does not seem to be a
favourite; and the names of Governor Andrew
Johnson, of Tennessee, formerly a tailor and now a
gentleman who is popularly known as the "ribboned
ox," because he is a renegade from the Democratic
party, and declared, while he was yet true to tho
faith, that a renegade was like an ox in ancient
sacrifices—to be led to slaughter with a riband
around:his neck, and who is also celebrated for being
the most accomplished adept in the art of speaking
Bancombe which the United States have produced,
and Mr. Horace Greeley, editor of the New York
Tribune, have been mentiohed for the post. The
first point to be settled, however, is the chairman..
ship of the Convention, for which there will be a
keen struggle, for the reason that any person who
occupies such a position in a nominating Convention
has a claim upon the President thereby elected for
almost any office in the Government to which he
may consider himself entitled. The two most pro-
minent, though not the most likely candidates, are
Mr. Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, and Mr.
Raymond, editor of the New York 7inzes ; the
former of whom is said to look upon the Secretary-
ship of State, and the latter upon the Embassy to
Paris as his appropriate reward. Although the
delegations are unanimous for Mr. Lincoln, they are
dissatisfied with Mr. Lincoln's Administration, and
are believed to have exacted a promise that he will
make a clean sweep of all his Secretaries from Mr.
Seward downwards, and appoint a totally new set
of men if he be re-elected.

It appears that Mr. Lincoln's friends were unne-
cessarily alarmed by the statement that a delegation
of the supporters of General Fremont or Mr. Chase
was in the city and had determined to meet 24
hours in advance of the regular Convention, and
declare themselves in favour of the one term prin-
ciple. If any such meeting was held last night it
was held in secret, and the secret has been well
kept. Nobody seems to have heard or to know
anything about it. It is, clear, however, that the
proceedings of the Cleveland Convention--the ac-
ceptance of the nomination by General Fremont—
and the bold denunciatory letter in which he declares
that he will oppose Mr. Lincoln, but no other can-
didate of the Union party, have fallen like thunder-
claps from a blue aky among the place-holders,
office-seekers, contractors, and shoddyites, who form
three fourths, if not nine-tenths of the Lincoln de.
legation. They fear that this great disruption of
the Republican party—unaccompanied, and not
likely to he accompanied, by any similar spirit in
the Democratic ranks—will, in the event of General
Grant's failure, or the prolongation for the next
three months of his bloody and, as yet, bootless
campaign, lead to the success of General
The friends of M'Clellan aro delighted. They ',44,a
discovered in Fremont qualities which the-j,. 'aver
saw before. They admire his high pri,Aci.rie, his
stern opposition to illegality, his hatr,-4 of the Lin.
colnian despotism, and almost wise- that he would
be one of them and come over 'Ai the camp of the
" Copperheads." The RePe'..dican journals in the
Lincoln interest either belabour him with hard but
harmless words, or affe4tio pity him for the hope-
less shipwreck whic'Al they assert he has made both
of his reputation scud his chances. Bat the truth
is, supposing, always that Grant be removed from
the arena `,J3, his non-success in the field, that the
real straggle is more likely to be between Generals
Fl rdioat an a NVOlrllau than be v?cen Mr. Lincoln
And any_other candidate; and that if the contest
be decided by popular vote, and not by a
military coup d'etat, or the transference of
the decision from the body of the people to the
House of Representatives,—a contingency that may
arise it no candidate out of the many has the abso-
lute majority of the whole number of voters—Mr.
Lincoln's chances are the poorest of all. Of course
this is not the opinion of the Baltimore Convention.
They were sent to nominate Mr. Lincoln, and they
will nominate him at ail hazards.

JUNE 9.
Contrary to expectation the chairmanship of the
Convention has been settled without a struggle,
neither of the favourites, Cameron or Raymond,
having manifested a desire to contest it. The pro-
visional chairmanship was conferred on Dr. Brecken-
ridge, of Kentucky, an uncle of General Brecken-
ridge of the Confederate army, who made a very
truaulent speech, in which he asserted that the
liberties of the American people required a great
deal of blood to consolidate them, and that the more
that was shed the longer the Republic was likely
to endure. The reverend gentleman, however, did
not say that he was prepared to offer up his own
blood for the cause which he has at heart, which is
perhaps a pity, if it is his intention to make any
more such speeches as that with which he inaugu-
rated the proceedings of the Convention. The per-
manent chairman, elected by unanimous vote, was
Mr. Denison, formerly Governor of Ohio, who en.
tered on his functions in a milder manner and spoke
more like a man of business and less like a fiery zea-
lot than his temporary predecessor. The Erst busi-
ness was to decide upon the credentials of the
several delegations; and as Louisiana, Florida, Vir-
ginia, South Carolina, and even the outlying ter-
ritories of the Union in the Far West which have
not yet arrived at the maturity of States were re-
presented, it became a matter of some interest to
knew how their pretentious would be received. Mr.
Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, who has no
hope of restoring the Union, and insists upon treat-
ing the Confederacy as a foreign nation with which
the Republic is at war, objected to allow any dele-
gates from Soathern States in partial occupation of
the Federal armies to be admitted, declaring his
el r B°w
opinion that any recognition of their claim to seat 8
in the Convention would be the establishment of 'a
fa
principle, that would be more injurios
as to the
Federal cause
than til
aaspdietcch,:ed;,attle. After
exceptior. to admit the
Carolina,dl oeniegg andat
oewsx,hc
with
deb:te loss
it f
was
ahse d
Par
of that from South
composed of negroes.
"le high position assumed
by the bulk of Mr. Lincoln's e
This was a
upporters, who claim
descent froont .4,11 Y
for the negro tioat he is always
a 8 good as a white
man, and sometimes a great
deal better (as most
people "would admit if they saw Mr. Frederick
Dmsglas and Senator Lane, of Kansas, together, and
1:4 ear d them make speeches). This knotty point dis-
posed of, in a manner which can ecarcely meet the
approbation of Mr. Wendell Phillips, air.
Ward
Beecher, the strong-minded women, and the
Churches, a new difficulty arose as to the admission
of a second and anti-Lincoln deputation from ;ans.
souri. Angry debates took place on thesubjecnbutas
the deputation was the only dissentient, and its sd.
mission could have no effect upon the final decision,
it was admitted under protest. It registered 22 votes
for Gen. Grsnt, but afterwards supported the nom:-
nation of Mr. Lincoln, which was thus made unani-
mous. Mr. Hamlin was somewhat contemptuc asly
set aside as Vice-President, and Governor Andrew
Johnson, of Tennessee, named in his stead, also by a
unanimous vote. With the adoption of a "platform,'
or series cf resolutions, the proceeding terminate d.
Nothing further remained but to hold the ratifi-
cation meeting in the open square in the evening.
The people of Baltimore were invited to attend
—about 460 peopie—mostly soldiers, ear-drivers,
labourers, and nand
negroes ; the floating population
of the town obeyed the summons, but there was not
even a sprinkling of the trading, professional, and
wealthy classes to bear them company. A transpa-
„say was
for that "ex
theat
theplace
heel of the old