, 1862-09-16
Especial Correspondence Chicago Tfibuns.1
SrprxaF,Irrn Sent 1o 1882

Especial Correspondence Chicago Ttibuns.1
SPRINGFIELD, Sept. II, 1852.
The city in the neighborhood Of the hotels
has resumed its usual quiet; both sections
of the Democratic convention having gone
bone. The anti-war men think they have
done the thing up about right, while the other
faction look upon the defeat OF the ticket as
moral certainly. Hacker, Burr, and others of
the ,late constitutional convention wear
almost lugubrious coyntenances. They evi-
IDENTIFY shave no hope" Goudy, Of your city,
feels about as bad as his worst enemies could
desire. He came down here to see if he could
possibly preserve the party by little graceful
yielding to the sentiment Of the loyal people
Of the State. He was for Dickey, first and
last, rot that he cared acopper for the colonel,
but that he looked upon him as ut least float
which the Democratic party might catch at IN
Its present condition. Goudy took lesson
from the late constitutional convention.
With that body he had moro to do than is gen.
orally supposed. BE engineered Fuller, and
advised Wentworth, from time to time through
him. He was an extreme party man then;
be has greatly moderated nov, and especially
eincc the doings Of the Damocratic convention
here.
The wnr Democrats here are on the ran,-
page. Gen. McClernand, Judge scates and
other gentlemen Of that eide Of the Democratic
house openly repudiate 1t. Gen John a. Lo-
gan has already done so In advance, in very
ztrorg speech delivered at Caroondale Judgc
Scates Was treated in . most uugent1e;nanly
manner in the convention. He offered 4 Sc
ries Of resolutions irdorsing Mr.. Lincon's let
ter to Horace Greeley, and urging vigorous
prosecution of the war; but they were laid On
the table without reading. subsequently
heard conversation between two delegates,
uc not hx out old Sca:cs in short order ~
ssYes,' replied the other, sshe could not spring
any of his ID war traps In that conyen-
tion." This exhibits the animus Of the con-
eern. What ~onld not this rump Of party
do, If theJ5dared:''
do lot see how the Cook county deleca-
tion can 60 home and ask the peop:c to ap-
prove Of the work they have done. Toe D Jug
las Democrats in the nothern part OF the
State, especially, cannot 60 where john a.
McClernand and John A. Logan refuse to
lead, and they will not A delegate from Ste
rhtnson county, iu committee, oif:red part
Of Douglas last speech, the great speech OF
his life, to he Incorporated into the rcso}u,icus
But 4. l.. Knapp, member of Congress from
this district, fai1ly secuted at him, aud the
Stephenson gentleman left in disgust. How
he wandered into such crowd from such q
patriotic old county, is mystery to me.
The speeches at the close Of tue convention
FRI IL Allen and Richardson were most con-
tenp1ible Specimens Of oratory. I cauld not
h:ip thinking " what fall was there my coun-
.nd pI.judices not considered respectable
even IN sayages. The cry was, If the slaves
are em:Ecipaled, they will ovcrfun the Moth;
1h.y viii not work and you will have to sup
port them. Then the change YVES rung
2n this ard it was fully asserted
L, groes would compete with the whites, and
drive the latter ou: Of the field OF labor.
Richardson howlel out his libels against the
New England people, eyi ilen,ly trying to
arouse the prejudices Of the Western meu
against tie Yankees, as they are always called
eur interests are with the valley of the Mis-
sissippi. We cannot suffer our produce to
pass to the sea under the guns OF
> hostile people. We do not get
half price. for our produce now. Why?
''This unfortunate war" has closed up our
natural ontlet. The animus Of the VIII lie
speech appeared TO me to be hatred to those
Who were fighting the battles of tue Uai IN
with us, ana very gingerly rcDukc OF the
South. The real dritt Of the speech was left
u1defined; but one can see the point to which
it tended. That point is one Of til: lsadiug
objects Ct secret society that is at present
entirely too numerous In this Stare.
The Democratic papers are pn1Iiug the 1c-
ton # the conyen:i4n beyoul I'LL precedent.
Like the Chinese soldiers they mike up il
do not respond; nor indeed do hundreds Of
The to,n:er lesders Of the party; as Hou- 8. 8.
H1yes If your CITY said: t'lhey are spe HinY,th
D.nocralic party out Of their mouths.'
IEe news frcn. Washington, and the East
generally, has produced q very gloomy fcetiug
here. Gov 1ntes is III constant tel:gr .2aic
communication with Governors Curtin, Nor
ton ard Tod. But tue wort phase OF the
IC:E6 BY private advices from Washington is
that the president was virtually forced by the
claMoT Of the generals aud staff officers or the
ar1ny to appoint Mcclellan to the suprema
ec.nnland. Il is also rumo1ed TINT Mcclellan
tktn dtnadHdtd Of the president the removal
| Of Pope aud Mcdowell from Washlog.on,
| which Nas doue. The stories hy prlya.e
| seurce6 from Washington concerning the re-
| fnsa1 Of Mcclellan to reinforce Pope, By which
the army Of Pope was near]j destroyed. evca
| though the President himself begged it should
be dCnc, arc almost too horrible to be be-
| lieytd. But the Thole thing is SIT forth In
| an atlc article in Wilkes' Spirit Of The Tsmss,
which must open the eyes Of the people to
thu present condition Of affairs at Washing
TOP.
II ever there WIS time when the country
was in the most Imminent peril iti is now.
| Col. Joseph R. Scott OF your city has a::saiu
! heen appointed tn the 18th regiment, thi!
/ time as colonel. He was, belore he rendered
! his resignation. lieutenant colonel. The ap,
polntment has been made in accordance with
! The wishes of the officers md soldiers Of the
18th, and is every way q worthy and proper
one
+! Gov. Yates will probably have some timt
next week to meet the governors of the loya
S:ates at Harrisburgh OF Philadelphia.