Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-05-25

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Our State Convention had been appointed :"
be held on the second Monday III June, lof
purpose Of nominating candidates for 'oEell."i
members of Congress anu fres'oen.n'
Electors but in view Of the recent ocJ, y,
rcnccs ut Charleston, it has been Determines y
bring the convention on 4 week ca''lci' ".r
we NAV be able to give expression 10 oui IVA
and sentiments touching the present el!Sts' .an
10 3c.ay7n our delegates with authority ''tc.pJ
resent US in the Richmond meeting '
and our country!
Very respectfully, yours &C. II n
p, s.-The Tennessee Resolution Is 'oo.eu
At nc \ contemplate dodge-a ln'serah'e nun
bnc-a halfway house, designed TO pro'rae az
coxnodations for weak nerves and qucst'"'a'
bile hearts.
letter from New York.
r Cor,.spondeacc cf the Richmond E"4"'Fsf'I
New YoRk, May 10, 1860.
The Seward men of this city have been terri
bly disappointed. They were certain Of his
nomination. Thurlow Weed boosted q short
time since, that he mad already secured q suiti-
cent number OF pledges to render his nomina-
tion certain. The Regency Of which he was
head, had come into the possession ot an election
find of near about two millions of dollars,
about $500, 900 Of which. had, under various
schemes, been abstractc,l from the overiaXnH
population Of this city.
their heaviest receipts were obtained through
ouarantineand harbor. master operations, police
black mailing, Central Park jobs and city grid
iron railroad grants. Seward canc back from
England, flushed with the belief that he was 10
be the next President. lie had been feaStel!
and toasted in England, as the future President
OF the United States. His leyotccs reiterated
the same thing on his return. lie made his
late speech in the Senate under the belief that
it would clinch the nail in his behalf at Chi.
caco. Alas, for human hopes he failed, ard
probably, the most deeply mortified and dis
appointed man in the United States, yesterday,
was Vim. H. Seward, when The wires an
nounced to him that he had been superseded
by d third.ratc man, in the person nt Abram
| Lincoln. The cause Of his failure is laid upon
Horace Greeley. The latter wanted 10 be Lieu
tenant Governor some years ago, when the Sc.
ward Regency, in Albany, give MIN the cold
shoulder, and made n pet Of Raymond, oil the
"Times," and put him in office.
Again, year before last, Greeley strenu0usly
| SOunul lUc lIUullIlHllDIl u lHS
the State, but Seward, Weed & CO., were again
deaf to his appeals and blind to his claims, ana
nominated Z. D. Morgan. This acted as Il
stomacher to the ambitious Greeley. tic sub,
seoucntly rushed to the frontier and crossed
the Rocky Mountains, Tn route t. the paclhc,
in order 10 keep his head cool. During his
solitary rambles, he became philosophical and
took things easy. While wandering on the
shores Of the Pacific, Il knot OF Blac!; kcpuo-
licans in Oregon held 4 meeting aM".lorlley
street style, and resolved. that they were the
Republican party of the State Of Oregon Ihey
further resolved, to make Horace Greeley, their
sole delegate 10 represent them in the Chicago
| Convention. Hence, he returned, with the
five votes Of that State in his brccches pocket.
He then came out in opposition to Seward anu
in favor of Madame" Bates.
On the first ballot lis five votes were cast
for that individual, which If hc.had given Tor
| Seward he would probably have been nonina'
ted. He stuck fast in his opposition to Sew
ard until he was defeated and Lincoln was
nominated, to the utter establishment, horror,
dismay and diSapprobation of Weed, Webb,
Moses II. (%irinnell, Simeon Draper, anu others,
all Of whom had gone 10 Chicago provided
with plenty Of money, plenty Of oysters, and
anv amount of choice wines, 10 secure Sew
ards nomination. But MI in vain. Some were
heard in Wall street yesterday to call TIA
Liacoln-P oop nomination." The Evening
Post" hailed his name Of "~Ilonest Abe" where.
upon some waS perpetrated the following
rythm:
= "For aucht that's known lac may be 'Roncst Abe
Ye, little more ft for President than 4 sucking babe
All that was wanting TO cap the Climax TO
this absurd nomination, was the selection OF
Hannibal Hamlin rs 4 candica!c for the Vice
Presidency.
The only remarkable act ever performed by
the latter was his sudden desertion from the
ranks Of Democracy to be made Governor Of
Maine by the Black Republicans. Hc is y
large. tall, "chucklc" headed looking man. and,
with Lincoln, classed by those most familiar
with him as n third or fourth rate man. 1t Is
a little strange that the Black Republicans
have had, in their fear OF defeat with Seward,
to take up a descendant Of the Old Do
minion. LincoIn's grandfather went from
Rockingham county, Virginia, 10 Kentucky,
where he was born. But being Of q Quaker
family he went while young, to Indiana and
thence to Illinois. where the abolitionlsm Of
his sect, and of his associations gained 4 COM
plcte mastery over his mind. And between
the ultraism Of Garrison, Phillips il Co. and
that Of Lincoln. there is nothing to choose
Massachusetts people have been led to suppose
that he was an or:shoot Of their Lincolns, Just
as many persons supposed that Calhoun of
Massachusetts, (of Kansas memory vas from
| South Carolina. Fremont was no where in the
Convention, though he desired the nomination.
There are other disappointed men besides Sew
ard and his Regency. Banks and his friends,
| Cameron, Read, Chase, Wade, Bates anu other
friends are all sadly disappointed.
The Black Republican nominations prove
that the negro is nearly played out They
show their sense Of weakness and fore-know-
ledge Of defeat. They feared the "irrepressi-
| bic conflict" ind higher laN dogmds or Seq
ard. They feared the indignant frowns of the
conservative masses in all parts of the country,
who remembered the raid Of John Brown and
their reasonable sympathy with him and his
lawlcss acts. They felt as Bclshazzar did Mt
his feast in Babylon, and saw written on the
canvass Of their large booth. "lNeHc, meme,
tekel Upharsin." And their knees shook to-
rether for fear, and in their confusion they
called upon "ABRAMAM' and "HASSIgAT." to
save them--the latter, probably. on account of
his great military name.
These nominations have opened the way to
nm easy victory on the part of the Democrats,
should they unite on n suitable candidate. Our
preference for Ex-Governor Wise as the right
man for the place, is too we'll known to require
rendition here, and this may be said of large
majority Of the Democrats in this part of the
country.
Wall street was thrown into 4 stew ycstcr-
day. !. young man who filled the place Of
Transfer Clerk and Secretary in the Office OF
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, by the
name of Hoffman, was absent from his desk.
Day before yesterday the ledger list OF tho
shares of that company, then in possession Of
the Secretary, was ordered, by the Directors,
to be delivered to another party. for the pur.
pose of making examination and preparing a
complete share list preparatory to the full pay
mcnt Of dividends. Some irrcgularity was
soon discovered, and the young man acknow-
lodged an error Of 400 shares, equal to $4,000.
Yesterday he was among the missing, and ri
mors flow through the strects-orc Of which