New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-10
ME national CONVERSION.
e,- our Special Correspondent

naVQu2atlOn OF lNc 10 NtlllOH u. hN "il"'i'-
,nt Of the Rev. Robert j. Brcckiuridge OF hen'uck!
40 temporary CHARM an had in it the perfect propre'y
which recognizes int ioct and honoTs 1t blindoid win
sle highest Office in mems git Tie abest nan soaln
3 hs Cbo and the .nchest Unionist OF Grstocratic
hirtb and connection in the whole State OF hentuch!
rs conducted TO Ire chair by Northern hands, with
ceilings akin TO veneraton that wholly lifted those VINO
knew The unmanageable and partisan Scotch qualities
o. the indomtable conroversaist above their chronic
measure Of his eloquent and broadhearted pugnacy
10 reyerential spanning and touch OF patriot 'Ha
could wisely counse, and eloquently plead for kepuD
.ie N its throes of reconstruction Brecknfldge nau
I, heart of the Convention from the moment that his
Tall figure with bis long beard and bis parted gray
r stood with grand dignity before It, and with The
simplicity Of clerical questioning asked Lat Is the
p of this bodyi'
ore this INQUIRY however, in obedience To all
=, .iesi necessity, he made a speech. 1 have bust.
q with only two passages ofthis remarkable address:
T,,oadful rs they are thCse fearful trulhs
"a IN The whole history Of mankind that Whatever
e. , mas be- done TO give stability TO an authority
NJ sfeyer else NAV lie done gave peTpeuty to institl
cons however wise how eloii0lis-and whatever
nay be the philosophy Of it, i has been found that the
ony impcrshabe cement o, oil institutions has been the
blood o.! traitors.
No Government has ever stood upon irresistible
foundations which foundations were not huiit on
traitors oiood. 1t il feai truth but Ee had wei!
syow il NJ once. Every blow you STRIKE and every
Rebel you kill and every battle YOU win reluctant az
VI are 70 do it, is adding decade II uny be century,
it may b. ten centuries to the perpeiuiiy OF your Gov
sTnment, and the freedom OF your cAildTen'
Tie Convention was in a whiTlwiDd Of sympathetic
passion in an instant The great Kentuckian had
ewcpt hs war-hsnd over its heartstrnes and he had
US feet in FASH and hearts in our mouths,
and our voices lifting at the roof for free vent
Tie business went on. Tie aged presiding officer.
with his clerical habits of lifetime resting indented
uron bim treated tho Convention quarterly meet
ing considered himself as It's Moderator and called the
Secretary the elerA'but naught but the proloandest
respect attended the great preachers discharge Of ms
duties to Convention assembled rs he felt It was, to
s,yc thc Republic. And when ex-Gov. Dennison OF
Ohio was made permanent President, The Breckenridge
descended from the chair with the homage of thousands
silently following Of the great products of the
civilization OF the West as we heretofore have followed
with our eyes the departure from the Senate Of the
United States of the mighty form of the mighty Clay.
The history Of the Baltimore Convention TO renomi-
nate Abraham Lincoln 1t is written in tie Delesa-
ton roOns in part have nothing to do with the pre-
convention history of the Convention.
II is history in part of the admission into the Con.
yeuen rs States and into The Federal Union as States
Of Arkansas where under Banks have been whipped
no, only oe Of our boots but ont of our actual political
possessjon of the soil sufficient to eject hog reoycof
Lou.iana where have political possession just so
far as our 3O-ponnder Parrot guns viii shoot and not
one inch frtherof Tennessee, wheRwe hare lurisdio'
zion end political grip just fishermen in Fundy have
fohod between the ebb end food Of the tide and not
one inch more-of Nevada Colorado Nebraska
scarcely fledged Territories, in whose behalf when
knocking OF the Electoral College and ehoTing Older
Massachusetts and old NeWYork IN their hot hunger
and thirst after the rewards Of politics lot one word
could be invented for public ayoWa save that their adj
mission 10 the Convention would help three several
schemes TO bring them into the mon as siaiesi do
not care now to write the history Of this chapter in
American politics 1t bide is tine. We have the
war on our hands, cur hearts, eye. and on our lips
Iteegraphed TO THE TRIBUNE from half hour 10 half
hour the history of noble report of the Committee
On Credentials presented by Preston King which nd
pi,.ed the Radical delegates from Missouri, and shut
ont Of the Convention the Rla, faction from that out
ragged S.aie-a report which substantially excluded
from seats all the delegates from all the States in
The Southern Confsderacy who impudently stuck ont
for acceptance credentials comforting representative
character which had been virtually conferred upon
themselves by themselves How Preston King repu-
dated his report and how he stretched out his hand 70
LII m nd Ing into the Convention through cracks and
holes all these misrepresentatves Of Rebel States
briefly told You over the wires do not care 70 tell you
Of the trembling Of the New.York politicians voice
when he faced the Convention and endeayored 70 give
fusiiGos lions for denying, without cooke the
soemuy determined policy Of the Convention through
tie Committee of which he had been shrewdly made
tie Chairman. The discipline Of the Convention was
equal 70 his necessities lie sustained and he has
gone ito history as the founder Of political precedent
wholly unnecessary to the accomplishment Of It's pur
pose and fraught with reciprocal dangers to tie SOW
regDty Of the Federal Government and the independ
shce Of the States.
The nomination Of Mr.. Lincoln had been made an
inevitable necessity months ago. There remained To-
da fl the Convention only to recognize this necessity
en- to associate with him the ticket candidate ior
tie Vice. PRESIDENCY This was the labor, this the
ehicanc Of the Delegations Locality has now pre-
srptive right 10 influence our political conventions
and TO New York in all political struggles IL conceded
some Of the rights Of Empire. The President to be
taken from the West the Vice Presidency was conceded
70 the East and the nomination Of the candidate FOR this
Office was either by consent or preconceIted
arrangement rendered 10 NewYor The unielteIed
choice Of the people Of that State would have been DAN
IEL S. DICKINSON and the New-York Delegation would
have nominated him had they not been confronted WIN
The persistent objection that If NewYork had tie vice
Presidency under the Administration. MI seward
could retain ms place in the Cabinet as Secretary OF
State. This objection fatal 10 the desires oil MI
Diokinsons friendsfatal 10 them within the New-fofk
delegation fatal TO them within the Convention at large.
Or The Vote for Vice President New York cast % bal
lots for Andrew johnson of Tennessee for Hannibal
Hanlia aud g for Dickinson This is brief history Of
On important event. i DO not care 10 enlargeit
To raao1uffor Uerc Wri.fep and renortnd