American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-06-15
NUMBER L26
The CIeveland Conyention..


cleveland Convention with interest, but
without apprehension as to its results Fpo-
llueally 1t appears to have been what is
popularly known as "6zzle' There was
quite a respectable number of people in
attendance, but they represented no one
but themselves. They called themselves
delegates = but they were self appoin-
ted and without constituents. 1t would
be perfectly easy to get together the same
number OF discontented politicians any
where, at any imaginable question. saH
Look, for instance, at the delegates"
from Pennsylvania. Who appointed
them? Whom did they represent beside
themselves? =? Were they appointed by
the handful who responded to the call for
the formation of a Fremont Club, in Wilk-
ms Hall, or did they 60 simply of their
own motion, and with the satisfied con-
sciousness that in representing themselves
they represented enough self Importance
for large party? We can safely say,
from our knowledge of public sentiment
here, that. they represented no political
organization Of the slightest Importance
in his county; and the public will look
in vain for any authority outside of it to
act as delegates. they assumed with
that political modesty for which they are
notorious, to speak for Pennsylvania; but
neither the opposition to the Copperhead
Democracy in this State nor any portion
Of it, has ever made them its mouth, piece.
The old-time g Liberty Party" Nation
al Conventions were much more respecta-
bic gatherings, both numbers and per-
sonol. They were not, it is true, attended
by Parker Pillsbury, Stephen S. Foster
and Wendell Phillips, who were too pure,
in those days, to deflo their hands with
politics. they conteuted themselves,
then, with denouncing the Constitution as
"a league with death and covenant with
he'll, and all who voted under il as al
mOst certain OF eternal damnation. Now
that thy have got to voting under it they
cannot consort with those who periled
their souls salvation by persistlng in vo-
ting when they thought it heterodox, and
advised against it, but are fain to consort
with men Of such immaculate purity as
Gen. John Cochrane.
We have read over the platform, and
see but little in il to condemn. With. the
exception of the one term resolution there
is scarcely any part Of it that the Balti-
more Convention might not reafirm. In
looking it over the reader wonders where
the grievance of these men is. 1t is not
one Of principle, for every principle in it,
or whatever is in it worthy of the name,
will undoubtedly find expression at Balti-
more. The grievance is a personal one,
Evidently John Z. Fremont is determined
to run for President, and despairing of a
nomination elsewhere, has this one manu-
iactured to order, ,sundry dscontented men,
ambitious OF notoriety, seek it through
this channel, as seeming to offer the best
opportunity for that purpose, while others,
dislike Mr.. Lincoln, seek this as the on
ly way Of venting their dislike.
The mass of those who supported John
.C Fremont for the Presidency in 1856
will unite with US in the express on Of
a deepreqet thathe should suffer himselfto
be placed in this position. Forsome time
past. however, it has been evident that he
was bent upon one of two things-eitlIer
to compel the Administration party to-
nominate him, or to create breach in its
ranks to secure, if possible its defeat.
The nomination at Cleveland is the re-
suit Of his conviction that he was certain
not to be nominated at Baltimore and
since he is determined to run, we are
glad to notice that the self-created con-
vention which nominated him contained
no one of any note and represented no
element of any political Importance. ~
The delegates" themselves appeared
to have been clearly of this mind, that
the move was an utter failure. The nom
nation of John Cochrane for Vice Presi-
dent--a man without particle of strength
or character, and who lives in the same
city with Fremont--shows that no one,
even of them, was willing to be offered up
with him as fellow sacrifice, not voice
being raised even for the delegate who per-
sisted in running double with Dayton for
the same place in 1856. The same anxi-
ETY. was shown to escape from all possible
future responsibility for the affair in the
appointment of the National Committee.
The delegates" from Pennsylvania gave
the honor Of place on that Committee
to the least distinguished Of their num-
Der, and the delegates from other States
seem to have acted from a ike impulse.
We do not, as we stated at the outset,
feel any apprehension as to the results of
this Convention, politically The masses
of the friends of the Union and the Gov
ernment will rally around the nominees
Of the Baltimore Convention. satisfied
that its platform will be radical enough,
and that every vote cast in opposition to
its nominees, for third candidate, will
be. in effect, vote for the Chicago Cop
perhead nominees. - Pits, Gax. > ..'E,
" FATHER said a young lisper Of some
four summers, +" when wath the flood ?"