Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-09-19
RodIeoI AboIItIon Candidates.

A Radical Abolition National Convention
assembled at syrasase, N. y, August 2oth, Of
which 7. B. Mccormick, of Ohio was chosen
President. After considerable discussion,
Gerrit Smith was nominated for President
"a very respectable minority preferring WI
liam Goodell.r So states the official report Of
proceedings. Samuel Mcfarland, of Pennsyl-
yani. was nominated for Vice President. A
platform of some fifteen radical resolutions
was adopted The Republican and other po-
liticnl organizations were denounced, and
Cassius NJ Clay came in for a full share of
vituperation.
Daring the Convention letter was read
from Gerrit Smith containing an enclosure Of
$50 to help pay for printing tickets, &c. he
advises the Convention not to call TOR any
great outlay Of time aud money to increase
the vote tor the National or State tickets
As a specimen of the uphill work Mr.. Smith
has done in the way Of electioneering, we
quote paragraph from his letter to the Ma
tonal Convention:
81 have, from first to last spent much time,
and tens Ofthousands Of dollars, in endeavors
70 increase our abolition and Temperance
vote A little done in that way, would have
been well. But did much more than was
called for. The time and money were at
least half wasted. Two years ago was simple
enough to hope that by great effort we could
/ carry our abolition and temperance vote in
this State up to thirty or forty, or even fifty
/ thousand. / expended between four ANDY he
] thousand dollars IN hiring halls and in pay
/ ing printers, and lecturers, &c; and ! went tc
fiity-four meetings and begged, as on my
knees for votes. Rnt instead of getting Sc
many as would encourage US to try the bal
lOt-box again, we got so few (but five to sil
thOusand) las TO leave us but little hope ofsoon
if indeed of ever, getting more. would g
into a county, and not be able to find single
man tovote our ticket"
Mr.. Smith thinks one or two hundred dol
lars will defray all necessary expenses of thr
Presidential ampaignl His ''masterly mac
tiyity" in carrying on so important cam
paign as the Presidential is not fully approx
ed by his competitor for the nomination, 70
in an an extended comment of Mr.. Smih'
letter, which is appended to the official pro
ceedings of the Convention, William GOodel
says:-''We are not pleased with the idea o
going into battle under the leadership of
General VINO tells his army beforehand, tina
he has little or no hope Of ultimate success il
the undertaking" We trust this ominou
declaration of a rival does not foreshadow
split s-la-Democracy, in the party of fRadica
Abolitionists. Division would certainly b
disastrous to its success in November. Tn
one or two votes for Gerret Smith in railrOa
train elections cannot afford so unhappy d
vision. The party must hang together.
During a recess of the National ConVentio
for half an hour, State Convention for Nev
York was organized and a State and Electors
ticket nominated. The State ticket is heat
ed by William GOOdell for Governor, q
honor which will probably heal the threa
ened party division. The Electoral tick
bears the names of Frederick Douglass an
G. Harrington for Electors at Large. A
though fusion is the order of the day in Ne
York among all political parties opposed
Lincoln, no propositions by the Douglas D.
mocracy to the Radical Abolitionists have
yet been made public. As appears at pre-
ent1 therefore, a union of the Douglases 'fi
the sake of the Union" is not probable
this contest. Still there is no telling VIII
may happen, since Douglas Democracy h
played the whale with Know Nothing ism.
By the following Call copied from "Tl
Principia," the New York organ of the Ra
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