Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-06-09
IFrom the Independent, June 81

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The people of the United States are to
witness foolish thing on the 9TH of June
the assembling of Convention for the
nomination of candidates for the Presidency
and Vice Presidency before any such can
didates are needed, and before the strongest
can be determined. AS our readers know,
we have been In earnest to avert the mis-
fortune of too early nomination, as an act
of haste bringing repentance at leisure.-
From all the newspapers we have read,
from all the letters we have received, from
all the various expressions we have heard
on the subject, we believe that this Conven-
tion will assemble in opposition to the
deliberate and honest judgment of nine
tenths of the great Union party whose will
it is charged to regard, ard whose voice 1t
is expected to speak. The managers of the
Convention have technical right to hold
1t at this premature season, inasmuch as
the appointment was duly made for a
special day and date. But sensible men
lnnOt forget that this appointment was
made four years ago. when no human eye
could foresee that the 9TH of June, 1864,
would dawn on pending civil war, bloody,
terrible. and undecided, and giving every
day new aspect to public affairs. We
shall not be called upon to cast our votes
till next November. We can predict the
changed tone of the public mind at that late
day? Who can tell aohdt aciU then be the
pTerailing popular judgment even Of men at
present in high favor? Who can sag oCl,dt mas
ter spirit may arise Let,ceeR this time and that,
TO demonstrate his greater fitness for the helm ot
state than Q'ly mda'S 'chose hands are noe up
on ii? .
We hope, therefore, that the
Baltimore Convention will not clutch at
the golden apple too early, only to find it
turned to ashes in the grasp. On the con-
trary, let the gentlemen composing 1T meet
in a patriotic and not a partisan temper,
and make their chief action as follows:
ReSOlued, That this Convention do hereby
adjourn without a nomination, to reassem-
BILE in the same place on the first Tuesday
in September.
But the convention will not do it. At
least, we suppose they will not. Our reason
for such an opinion is, not that the convention
ooiH consist Of other than honest and sensible
men, but that antortunatelyH lctU consist large
U Of men holding office under HepreSeRt admin
| iStratiOn, and sohO by that bond are bound TO q
| pdrtiSdnship ,chich more disinterested persons
lc0uld deprecdte and avoid. Months ago we
expressed hope that this convention, and
| all others like it, might not be composed OF
otfice-holders, but of laymeu-nOt of men
in power, but out of power, who think
the rule would be salutary, never to admit
| to voice in presidential convention any
man holding political office. Otherwise
the opportunity is open, and the tempta-
tion inviting, to men already In power tC
attempt to prolong their lease of it.
If the Baltimore Convention had not of
fice-holders for members, its managers
would have yielded before this time to the
popular wish for postponement.
But suppose the convention chooses no
to postpone, but to sit, what then?
As to its candidate, we have nothing tC
say-not word for or against Mr.. Lincoln
not word for or against any man whose
name may there arise; for the good and suf:
ficient reason that nomination in June, ne
matter who may be the nominee, will moi
be the final and unalterable nomin: ton. II
dct, IL is by no means impossible, ece 10 not s0!
probable, that the action of the BGltimOre Con.
uention lCiI be entirely set aside, or aoW depend
for its udlidity upon its ratification 6y a future
contention. We, therefore, altogether dis
miss the question OF the candidacy-useless
to be now considered as it cannot be now
| settled. -..I ...,. ...
So. Our chief desire is that til,
convention, in committing one blunder by
making too early nomination, shall moi
| add to it second by adopting an unworthy
platform. When Mr.. Seward went to Bal.
timore, few weeks ago, to say that he love(
something better than the liberty of blacl
men, or the liberty of white men, ant
that was, his country, he emitted Whit OF
nonsense like the smoke of his cigar. We
hope he did not leave his meaningless dec.
laration behind him rs hint for the con
vention to pick up. One of the three mouth.
called Blair lately clamored that black men
after fighting for their country, should bt
afterward expelled from it, and colonized in
some other quarter of the earth. 1.-THE con
cention shall utter either any such nonsense a:
Se,oard propounds, or any such naeanness a,
Mr.. Blair exhibits, zoe may as ,oeU say in ad.
rance that oae-haJ the Republican party, dnc
the best halt, egiU quit the banner uplJted a
Baltimore, to seek elsetchere better leadership
gsuing Gaguy Of a surer uictory. If the trum-
pet gives an uncertain sound, who will fol.
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