, 1863-12-09

Gbifaeo Gribn'4t.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER ., 1868.
puvcstDEy11AL NOMINEE oFTHE
<sCOESER CkfAfss"
The q eminent conservative chaps, those
o,d 6;lurians contemporary with the Zeuslo-
don 1nacrospondylus, originating in the
same cru with that 1ongg-tailcd lizard, but
more fortunate than he in living longer
fossils Of the old red sandstone formation,
to he immorta1ized by some future hugh
Miller: contemporaries Of Noah, Julius
Cesar, Ponce de Leon, Christopher colum-
bus Queen Elizabeth, Aaron Bur7 and
Benedict Arnold; who saw the de1uge, the
conquest Of Gaul, the fountain Of everlast-
iur youth in Florida, roistering nights in
The Mermaid and the tcarparty in Boston
Ha1bor; venerable representatives who
stand as the types Of all times, countries,
faunn and si1vn; tortolses crusted with
shell Of fpre-Ada1nite theories and traditions;
men who stood upon the apices Of the
Py1amids when Napoleon informed his
soldiers that forty centuries looked down
upon them; these conservative chaps had
q meeting to nominate a President the
other day at Cincinnati. To the antigua
rian it was suggestive sight, calling up
"reminiscences of those days when mems
thoughts we're written in Gothic, Doric and
Ionic capitals and Chapters instead Of the
printed page; Of the days before Watt
studied The tea-kettle, Fulton the paddle
wheel, and franklin the lightning. Prof
James Dale Owen, the cratic geologist Of
Dubuque and the Lasa]le coal basin, would
hnyo gone into rapturcs at the specimens
while he picked their pockets Of their red
bandanuaa
There was Carrot Davis, Of Kentucky,
political saurian, body slongate, rounded
and covered with the imbricated scales Of
"the Institution; Gen. Leslie Comba, Of
Kentucky, whom Carl 6churz prickcd
through md through, The other day, with
his epistolary lance; J. Scott Harrison,
Of Ohio, who went to sced long ago,
uuworthy son Of q worthy sire; Hamilton
Pope, Brmncr and Clcye1and, Kentucky
chaps, firmly convinced that Kentucky is
the United States and the rest Of the world
an Insignificant sclvage fast rayelling out;
Emerson Etheridge, Of Tennessee, peace,
Union, anti-war, anti-pro-slayery Copper
head, astride Of tie fence, with one eye on
the niger underneath him, and the other
on Va1landigham; Washington Hunt, a
flne1yprcserVed specimen Of the New York
rcptilia, cold, smooth and wriggggling; Linus
Childs, Of Massachusetts, swathed in cot
ton, and bolt upright in q Quincy granite
mummy casc; B. Davis Noxon, Of Syra-
cuse, q model Old Hunke7, who pins his
faith to the backs Of men dripping with
blood under the mastcr's knotted scorrge,
md women sold to satisfy SHAREHOLDERS
lusts; Gilbert G. Walker, Of Chicago, d
youthful fossil Of a late formation, petriiied
only from his Uranium to his clavicle, both
in blossom and in seed like sunfiower.
These, md sundry other ordinary fossils,
made up the convention.
' Worcester defines conservative as zone
opposed to political changes in the State o,
Government; tory" Trench says q
tory was: 8 nnme properly belonging to
the Irish bogtrottcrs, who, during our civil
wara, robbed and plundercd, protesting te
be IN AIMS for the maintenance Of the roya,
cause" That hits our rconservativesexact1y
They a1ein favor Of existing institutions
that is, Slarery-and opposed to IN,
political change-that is, legislating By
constitutional means to remove tn,
foul stain from our national- escutcheon
They are tories-that is, prosessin,
to be in favor of the Union cause
and by their action throwing stunt
ling blocks In The way of its pro4ess an
attempting to bring the country back t
q. TINT situation when they tailed Of libert
inthe National Capitol, while gangs Of me
and women were driven through the stree
like cattle, and sold from the auction bloc
in its shadow. These arc the men vi
!. pompously recited the immortal axiom.
IAN men are created equal" that the
are endowed by their Creator with certai
inalienable rights; that among these 4,
F.: Life, liberty and the pursuit Of happiness
and then meekly closed their eyes and pas
ed over on the other side, while the slav,
driver stripped woman at the block, to
handled b brutal purchasers. They b.
1ieye in the divine rightW slavery an4
: support the churches Of the Bishop HOP
kinscs. Wien they utter one ~ond for til
Union it is drowned in an ocean of slave
n IFS and butts At the approach of an,
radical idea, Of any great truth, of an,
symptom Of progress, they roll themselve
up like porcnpines, ready to shoot their poi
soncd quills at the new conner. Their 10y
atty is never integral or complete, but al
ways conditional If slavery can be pre-
served, they 60 for the Union; if slavery
must fall, they WHIP their robes about them
and standing On their historic heights, pre-
dict the disintegraion Of the Republic.
With these principles in their minds, the
conservative chaps gather together to makt
a President. The choice is very easily
made. There is but one candidate, and
that man is the .gaye-diggger Of the Chick
ahcuiiny, George B. 11cC!ellnn. He con
menccd his Western Virginia campaign
with bombastic announccmcnt that any
uprising Of the slaves to secure freedom
would be put down with an iron hand. Tha1
was conservative. he fought the battle b
Antetam because he had to, and the1
refused TO follow it up. Tint was conser
vativc- He buried thousands Of our bray,
fellows in tile Chickahominy marahcs al
to no purpose. That was conservative
He waited at Manassas until the last rcbe
high private lad said good bye, and the1
went in and took possession Of the woode1
guns Tint was conservative. He va
ousted from his command, which WASH
conservative, and went to live with COP
pcrleads. Tint was conservative. III
copperheads presented him with an Gle
CANT brown stone front He toolsjt Tha
wns conservative. He passed round hi
hat for dimes among the survivors Q
Chickahominy. That was conservative
He wrotea letter for his friend, Judg
Woodward, to induce the people of the oil
Keystone State by electing q copperhead
to block the wheels Of Government The
was conservative. No man stands to-da
better type Of copperhead consery ryatis1
than George B. Mcclellan, but the shri,
elled old mummy in the Chicago Museu1
stands as good a chaAce of being ne,