Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-05-24
We returned home, yesterday from our !:

Thursday Morning, Lay Y. 196O.
Va returned home, yesterday from our /:
.trip to Chicago, and the Northwest: where
we went 70 attend the RepubIicsaR Ma
tional Convention, and to do what We
could, in a modest way, towards putting
In nomination the men of oar choice for
the Presidency aud Yice-Presidency, VIII
liam n. Seward and Casstus 81. Clay. OF
course, we return somewhat disappointed,
for Mr.. Seward was not nominated, neither
was Mr.. Clay. Almost every one thought
Mr.. Seward would be nominated on the
morning of Friday last, and his friends
went into the ballot upon what they con-
sidered forgone conclusion. BE was
sure of seventy votes from New York,
twelve from Michigan, ten from Wisconsin,
eightfrom California, eight from Minnesota,
six from Kansas, three from Maryland, five
from Kentucky, at least eight from Virginia,
with scattering votes from the New England
States, and as many others as would swell
the aggregate far above the number that
would likely be concentrated upon any
other candidate. The detection of six
votes, however, from the State of Maine,
seven from the State ofNew Hampshire and
four from Massachusetts,, on the first ballot,
: in favor of Mr.. Lincoln, did the work, and
80 effectually inhamed the outside pres
sure against Mr. Seward, that his friends
saw at once that his doom was sealed
Vermont followed up the New England
detection, ON the second ballot, and trans
ferred her ten votes from Mr.. Collamer to
Mr. Lincoln, who then was, to all intents
and purposes, nominated-even before he
received the overpowering accession of
forty-eight votes from the State of Pennsyl-
vania. Although Mr.. Seward led Mr.. Lincoln
three and half votes on the second bal
lot, yet it was perfectly apparent that he
had NO more chance on the third than if he
had never been announced Of course,
then, the third ballot was gone into merely
as matter of form, for it was clearly
seen that Pennsylvania and Ohio, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, Oregon, Kentucky
and Missouri, (if it was necessary had
made up their minds to concentrate their
votes on the determined choice of Illinois
and Indiana. Mr. Lincoln, therefore, was
easily nominated, and SO strong was tho
feeling among the vast audience looking
on that the delegates had nominated
man who could be elected beyond contin-
gency, that it seemed as if the mingled
enthusiasm and anxiety of months dura-
ton had at last found an outlet, and such
bursts of applause, such wild huzSas, such
deafening cheers. such waving of hats and
of boots and canes, and ciapping OF hands
were never heard or seen before. 1t was
scene ever memorable to the beholder,
and one that can never be put on paper.
OF Mr.. Lincoln's nomination we have
little to say, except to accord it our hearty
support. He was not our first choice, and
for that matter, not our second. We be-
lieved that Mr.. Seward, of all men in the
nation, was best fitted for and best entitled
70 the nomination, and next to him, that it
ought to have passed to Cassius NJ. Clay,
both of whom, in their respective spheres,
have done and dared more for the sue
cess of free principles in this country,
than all other candidates combined. As
Mr.. Carl Schurz, of Wisconsin, very hap
PLY said, when, on behalf of his delega-
tion, he rose to make the nomination of
Mr.. Lincoln unanimous, the failure of Mr..
Seward to receive the nomination was
Zone of history's striking instances of the
highest merit uncrowned by the highest
honors." AS it was in 1910 with Clay, the
idol of his party, so was it in 1860 with
William h. Seward. Both were sacrificed
toexpediency, and sacrificed too, at time
when the people were ripe for change.
Our sympathies go with the great states
man of New York in his defeat. We
learned to love and admire him, years ago,
and the feeling has grown with our ca
pacity to appreciate his eminent worth as
a man and a statesman. And it affords us
sincere pleasure, now that he stands d.
vested of the charms that probable
success is supposed to inspire, to record
for him our unabated attachment and
preference.
THE twenty three votes, which the State
of Virginia steadfastly threw for Cassias
N. Clay in the Chicago Convention, for
the Vice Presidency, must we arc-sure be