The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-06-28
Rebel Views Of our NomInatIpns.


The Convention OF Black Republic
cant in Baltimore have renoniinated for
President Of their country, Abraham
Lincoln, the Illinois rail-splitter, and for
Vicn-P President andrew Johnson, known
in the West as the Tennessee tailor,
one of the ,meanest of that craft;
whether they shall ever he elected or
not depends upon the Confederate ar
my altogether.
The people of the epemy's country
have now two Black Republican stick
cts" before, them; and the Democrats
are to, come yet. All these several
movements we are obliged to watch,
and, if possible, understand-by reason
of teeir possible effects upon the war;
otherwise We have no earthly interest
in the matter and if we are now at
peace with that nation it would be alto
gether Indifferent to us what ape, or
hyena or Jackass, teey set up to gov
ern them. fgaeQ edt Ia se15aai .r.f|
The great army of constructors,
then, and Office -ho!dsrs-in short, those
who live by the war, and an the coun-
try-have succeeded, at least, in start
ing Lincoln fairly E0r, another race. 1t
amounts to adeclaration that those con-
ventioners desire tosee four years more
in all respects like unto the Last four
years. They want no change at all; to
the present incumbents of power and
profit, all works weA enough as it IS
They care little, perhaps, about the
Emancipation Proclamation" or the
exact definition which may be applied
to Lincoln, as an immediate. or essen.
tial, or contingent Abolitionist; care
little indeed about politics at all, or
principles, or the destiny of the nation,
or other "abstractions" Of that sort;
they are practical men; and what they
know and feel i'm their inmost soul is,
that four more years of reyeling at will
in treasure and plunder will make them
all rich enough, them and their descen-
dants to the third and fourth genera
ton. 1f8 i4sig1He aI17f sf
Itappears, also, that Lincoln and his
friends have been lucky, for so far, in
the i'll success of Grant and Butler, and
in their precise measure of i'll success.
If either of those two had taken Rich
mond before the Convention, then But
Ter or Grant would have been nominated
for President, If they had been alrea-
dy utterly and decisively defeated, and
their armies cut TO pieces, then neither
Lincoln nor any other Black Republi-
can would have had the slightest chance
of election. So essential was it for the
right guidance of the Convention in
this matter that Grant should not take
Richmond, nor in advancing in triumph
ant march towards it, The New-
York Times, Lincoln's "organ" took
care to publish at length dismal ac-
count of the bloody defeat inflicted on
the Federals on the Sd of June, and to
express the opinion that it was q most
disastrous affair. This was true, but
the Times did not state it because it was
true. The Times stated it, notwith-
standing that it was true, in order to
lower GRATIS stock in the Convention,
Just in the nick Of time-and succeed
ed. Our soldiers who OH the Sd strew-
cd the earth in front of their intrench-
ments with $4,000 dead and wounded
Yankees, then and there secured the
nomination of Lincoln over Grant.
Lincoln, then, and his gang have
been lucky, as we said, so far. But to
win his election in November this inde-
cisivc work of the Federal armies, nei-
ther triumphantly victorious nor hope
lessly cut to pieces-neither taking
Richmond, nor taken by Richmond
will not do at all. Grant and Butler
are now at liberty to achieve the most
brilliant success they can, and The New
York Timer will not tell the truth any
more when it is unfavorable to them.
In fact, the Lincoln party has been re-
conciled to the delay in capturing Rich
mond by this consideration among 9TH
ers-that the Fourth of July approach
es; and they are aware of the theory en-
tertained by their old acquaintance,
Pemberton, now in high favor at Rich
mond, and commanding the fortifica-
tions of the city, namely. that the 4th
of July is the very best day to surrender
a place to a Yankee army, because, in
the warmth of their qualification at cell
ebrating their anniversary with tri-
umph, they give good terms. It's like
the approaching bon vivant after din
ner to ask him for favor. And, ac-
cordingly, the Yankee nation is now
holding itself prepared to put ON its
most gracious smiles and accord to us
the same tender consideration which
has been shown to the citizens of Vicks-
burg, Let them only haul down our
flag on that auspicious morning, and
read their Declaration of Independence
OH our Capitol Square, and Lincoln is
already elected President. In this stage
of the business also, however, our army
has voice; and if it shall continue to
battle, reRulse, and gut pn the Federal
forces, and finally drive them from the
soil of Virginia, as we fcrvently trust,
then this Baltimore nomination will not
! gain Lincoln single vote in Novem-
Der.
In that case who will be the next
President in the enemy's conntry?-
Not Fremont with his ssradical aboli-
tion." The era for that school Of poll
tics will he past. But there Eremains
another party-the Democrats; they
being also divided at present into War
Democrats and Peace Democrats, but
who would all be Peace Democrats in
the event supposed-that is, in the
event Of a total failure of the Federal
campaign Of 1864. Now the very la.
test intelligence brought us from that
country by special channel informs us
Of these two further facts; that the pop.
ular mind became at once violently ag-