Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-06-13
FROM BALTInORE.


1860 eOntrasted Sitk present dimes Rho
composed the late COaVsnnOn-F Failure Of
oil attempts to disOrSanizs 1.-THE Ticket
nominated. e
Special Corr SpOndenee OF the IntsIlIgeueer.
BALTIMORE, June 9, 1864.
Before this letter appears 10 type in the
InteHiSeneeT. you will have furnished your
readers with the substance of pretty much
all that was done herein, Baltimore 10 the
Convention. | do not therefore propose
to furnish you any news. Ny ouly idea is
to give you few observations directly and
Indirectly relating to the Convention.
This month four years ago-in 1861
WAS here attending what was called the
National Democratic Convention, the body
in which the present conspiracy and rebel
lion FIRST developed itself. Caleb Gushing,
OF Massachusetts, was its presiding officer
for the first few days, until the grand split
took place, and after that Gov. Tod, of
Ohio. was impressed, in taking my seat
for second time at u reporters desk 10
the Front street Theatre, with the mighty
change that had taken place. Caleb Cush.
ing was not here, but, strange to say, Gov.
Tod was. The morning that; Mr.. Gushing
took his leave Of the stormy body over
which he had presided SO ably both at
Charleston and here, and followed the
South ern Secessionists into the hall of the
Maryland Institute, witnessed the dissolu-
ton of the great and powerful Democratic
party, and made the election of Mr.. Lin
coin fOregone certainty. IreCollsct we'll
the speech that Cushing made on the oc-
casion how bitterly he identified himself,
Northern man and all as he was, with the
cause OF the Southern conspirators. re-
collect, also, the speeches OF his then con-
federstes, viz: B. F. Butler, B. F. Hallet,
Col. Loring, and others like them from the
/ same State of Massachusetts,. l recollect,
also, the speech that Gov. Tod made on
taking Cushing's vacated chair, in which
he as bitterly referred TO the conspiracy
that had then fully manifested itself TO
break up the Democratic party. He con.
graduated the body over which he presi.
ded that at last the true Democracy held
rightful sway in the building in which
they were assembled, and he ventured to
predict that under the lead of the man who
few moments thereafter was to be
their nominee, that the Democracy
would assert its supremacy at the No.
vember election following. AlasI how
little Governor Tod then knew of
what was csmingl Notwithstanding its
supposed purgation, the assemblsge over
which he presided still contained within
itself the same antagouistic elements of ir-
recOncileable discord. Pierre Soule, from
Louisiana, with his ultra. slavery followers,
was still there. John Forsyth, with his
band of FIRE. eating place hunters, was
still there. The sole delegate from
the State of Georgia, who had boosted that
with Douglas as his President he could by
virtue of the universal principle of "pop
ular sovereignty" and the doctrine of ''non
interference" import slaves from Africa,
as be bad already done, despite the clause
| in tn Constitution branding such impor-
tatiOns AS piracy, was still there. Between
these men and Douglas himself there was
great gulf, that never could be spauued
They went home TO preach to their people
doctrine that Douglas was compelled to
| disown in his Norfolk speech-a speech
that sealed his late in the South, and
caused him even to be egged in the streets
of Mobile, under the very wing and shad
Ow of John FOrsyth's protection.
What could come of such bitterness
such iucohereucy-such disjointure, bu,
rebeliiOus war? The offences which from
that time to this have happened had neeC
10 happen, but woe has been and woe viii
be to those by whom they came.
There was changed scene, as l said
from four years ago, visible Throughout
the Conveution that has just adjourned
There were in it good and devout men
come up, as it were, to Jerusalem, from al
parts OF the country and from ali the ole
parties ofthe country, gathered together fo
one purpose and but for one, viz: to d.
whatever was possible to unite the Who'll,
people of all the loyal States in frmer ant
a more uOdyiug resolve to save this Uniov
and put down the present rebellion. T,
this end we had such a man as the Rev
Roht. j. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, here
with his heroic companions. To this euC
We bad Maynard aud BrownIow from
Tennessee, Tremsin aud Curtis from New
York, Tod from Ohio, and many others O
lesser note from other States. These met
represented all the shades of all the ole
parties; there was no accordance between
them save in one respect-but that wa
everything, viz: the salvation of the coun
try. On that they were unit, aud therein
they spoke with one tongue. In all proba
bilIty no such Convention will ever b,
gathered together again. Aud yet, notWitb
standing, the dire calamity that broupb
and held those men all together, it was {
pleasant sight to see for once in a politica
Convention the manhood of men thus &c
nobly exhibited. =. -
OF course there is an other side to this
picture. Many old hacks-the same thai
always cling to party and power, were here
We bad an exhibition of this sort of men
yesterday, toward the close, when Simon
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, Stone, of Iowa,
and man from Illinois, brought the Con
yenttou into an almost inexIricable muddIe
IN their vain efforts to forestaIl each and
all others in the nomination of Mr., Lincoln,
1t was plaiu-=so plain that it stuuk in the
nostrils of the COnvention-as to what mo.
tlVes were actuating them. To see Simon
Cameron-a maH who had been a O. s,
Senator, a Secretary of War, Minister to
the third court 10 Europe-vainly eudeay-
he