White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-06-14
The Kansas Delegates.

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Convention were a good, whole souled
set Of fellows, whom one could not help
liking. They were ardently amounting.
we thought, almost to bigOtry.) attached
to Seward. and we felt sorry for them. af-
ter the failure of their deity, which set SO
much the harder upon them, from the
fact that they never anticipated such q
result. To be sure, our first choice was
also unsuccessful; but Lincoln is our 6rst
choice now, and SEe believe we left Chi
csgo ten fold better satisfied than if our
original choice had received the nomina-
tion.
Being. therefore, in such happy hu-
NOR, we made it duty to call at Kansas
head quarters. just before leaving the city.
to condole with our afflicted brethren
A gloomy place we found it, indeed.
Col. Phillips seemed to take the NOM
ination as q matter of course. and to con-
slider that it would all be embraced in a
lifetime. Still, his first love was dead,
and he was ga sadder and a wiser man.
than when he arrived in town.
We pitied Martin. He looked as il
his great.grand-mother was dead, and he
had no good clothes to go to the funeral.
he sadly inquired where We had kept our
self for the last day or two; when the fact
was, we had asked him, at least twenty
nine times, during the above period, how
Seward stock was, and he had every time
replied that it was rising-Seward was
sure to be nominated on the first ballot
in fact, be was inclined to believe that
Seward would be nominated by acclama-
nation, without taking ballot. During
our brief stay, {" he never smiled again. "
Ross was speeches.. and sat at a mar.
ble-topped stand, writing. He was prob
ably engaged upon his last will and tesla.
ment-as his will in regard to the nomi'
nation had been violated, and he had left
his testament at home.
Proctor was disconsolate. He tried to
appear we'll satisfied with the result
but the task was too much for him. The
principal cause Of his grief seemed to be-
that there was no inducement, in this
country, for a man to try to be great
He was bound for Washington City, and
when last we saw him, was in q fit hu.
NOR to do mischief when be reached there
Hatterscheidt was out but we presume
ed he bore up under the affection with
philosophy characteristic of Germans.
Wilder was missing, and no one knew
anything of him. The last we saw Of
him, was when the nomination was made
He arose to change the vote of Kansas
for Lincoln, and it seemed as if the effort
broke his heart. He shut his eyes as he
spoke the words, probably imagining thai
the ghost of Seward would rise up before
him. For sught we know to the contra
ry, he may have Immediately thereafter
started home afoot, and arrived there il
time to receive the news of the b.. nomina'
ton for Vice President, by telegraph, the
same evening. Wilder worked hard fol
Seward in Kansas, and his labors deserv-
ed better reward.
We left the disconsolate ones in care
Judge Leonard and Champion Vaughan,
who promised to see that no harm befel
them. We trust they will learn resigna'
ton, which will enable them to bear up
better under similar dispensations in the
future. They now have some idea OI
how others would have felt, had Seward
been successful. But Honest Old Abe
is magnanimous. When he takes the
Presidential Chair, he will look with as
much favor upon Stewards adherents as
upon original Lincoln men. Fall in, fall
in.