New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-01
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE SPIRIT OF THE WEST.


SAxDusKY, o., May 90, 1860.
Asa traveller from New. York plants his foot upon
,le rim Of the Great Mississippi Basin he instantly
feels that he inhaes Few atmosphere in regard 10 the
Chicago nominations Here on the shores of one Of
the Upper Lakes, and near the head springs OF the
Father of Waters YOU catch the first breath of Western
enthusiasm for Old Abe" The country has so long
been accustomed TO contemplate only the political Sec
tons Of North and South that it is slow to grasp
the idea that there is WEsT-that it is mighty IN
Numbers and power-that il is determined TO MAKE I've
influence felt in the politics of the nation-ano ""0
it lie even now potent, is destined to dominate III ''
Federal Councils after this years census - '%'o
Those who are searching for the causes Oh "o'' %"
ards defeat at Chicago seem to overlook Tue raw 'n
the West rallied in it's strength ana reso'eu '"' '"'
nomination should be conferred upon one vi HS so"'
With the exception Of Gov. Seward the votes gwen
70 Messrs Cameron and Collamore were merely COM
plimentary all the real candidates before .e
,sn,;on were from the Valley of the Mississpp-lin-
- Rates. Chase. Mclean, and Wade. Hereafter,
The West must be regarded as "apOwer in the land
Though Chase Wade, and Seward, had many friends
on the Ohio Reserve" the nomination of Lincoln Is
cordially received. He is that type of man which
takes with the Western masses l have conversed
with manv citizens of the upper-lake country and all
oncur in opinion that If Douglas not the nominee OF
abe Democracy Lincoln viii sweep the seven or eight
Western States like tornado. Said an enthusiastic
dmirer of Douglas to me- to-day, If the Little Giant
U;s thrown overheard al Baltimore Old Abe will run
"hke chain lightning from the Allegheny to the Mis-
"souri." And this well-inforned friend of Douglas
admitted to me- that his supporters hereabouts were
beginning 10 regard his defeat at Baltimore as pretty
nearly certain Nor, he reluctantly confessed 40
they feel at all sanguine of a, the polls even
he he nominated. A large number OF Democrats are
hostile to him; and, worse than ALL the Chicago Con-
yention has utterly dsarnged their nicely adjusted
programme by not nominating Seward 1t was for
his devoted head that the Democracy had been bot
Ting up wrath for the last two years and now to nave
it left TO spoil upon their bands was most provoking
Wherever have travelled since the result at Chicago
xvas known--and ii covers many hundred miles-it Ii
impossibe not to see at glance that the result has
wholly disarranged the plans and dampened the ardo
Of the Democracy.
j have been anxiously asked, many times since my
arrival this side Of the mountains, whether Linco
could carry New-York | find that the impression
was left upon many minds by the ominous givngs-ou
at Chicago of some Of the New-York lobby, that on
State must now be set down in the doubtful column
In fact that the chances were that would not 90 70
that the majority in New-York for Lincoln would b
counted by tens Of thousands that the only cause To-
regret was that those who were threatening to Dol
would not do So that ifthey would carry their threats
into execution and 90 straight over to the enemy thu
Republicans would lose only those whom they coulC
I'll afford to keep and the Democracy get only such a.
IL could in afford take and that nothing would Sc
strengthen our party in New-York as io publication
by means of such bolt as would result from d TASTE
for the Chicago nominees.
Douglas is very strong with the Democracy hei IL
Ohio Still there just enough Administration men
and sore heads of sundry Sorts to cut him in pieces
should he run. Those who do hate him, hate hin
most intensely. And such is the fact through all th
Norh-West The feeling general that Lincoln is TIN
very worst man for the " Giant whom could hav
pitted against him. Still, with Douglas for candl
date, and only Democratic ticket in the field W.
should have a splendid battle through all the West
But if the standard be wrested from his hands ard
placed in those of Guthrie, Seymour Breckenridge, OF
any such chief it is admitted by Democratic politicians
all through this region that there would be general
rout from the western line of Pennsy lvana to the
borders Of Kansas and Nebraska.