New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-06
WHERE WE ARE.
county.

| II is useless To attempt to disguise tie fact
patent to every Intelligent person in the
county, that for weeks past till quite re
+ Gently, there has been among all loya
people o good deal of dissatisfaction at th,
present aspect of affairs, and good deal of very
painful apprehension for the future. The events
Ofthe last three months, so different from the
I general expectation of signal and decisive
results Of the summer campaign, willis they were
the cause ofthis dependency, have justified the
foresight of those who advised against the As
sembing of the Union Convention in June.
Perhaps, had that Convention been postponed
tillSep,embcr, its choice Of a Presidential can
didate would have been the same as in June;
but, made in June, the feeling is that it was
premature, because it was made under the an
ticipaton Of events which have not been real
zed. and which, il il now seen, il was hardly
reasonable to expect. But the resulting effect
was widespread doubt Of the wisdom of that
nomination. not because ia" country did hoi
know as much then as it does now Of the char
acter Of Mr. Lincoln's Administration, bu, that it
attributed to it then an energy and judgment,
in the conduct Of the war which the past did
not Justify. button which, nevertheless, the peo-
pie chose to found unwarrantcd hopes and cx-
travagant expectations. With the Rebellion be
lieved 10 be at almost its last gasp, aud which
vigorous campaign was sure TO finish in ninety
days, where, it was said, could better stand
ard-bearer be found than ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Tor the coming political struggle Who so well
deserving 10 DO tho Nations ruler for second
term as he who has carried it triumphantly
through the war, and who will, before the leaves
fall, rec i.abliSh Union and Peace Such was
the popular feeling. or such it was assumed to
be; and, on the crest of this wave Of popular
dclusiOn. the Convention was held, and The
Presidential nomination carried. Bat suisse
quent events disproved the popular anticipa-
tons; and the strength (which was to be proved
by their realization, turned out to DC only
reactionary weakness in their diap-
poiniment. With disappointment came d..
spair quite as unwarrantabe as the extra'a
CANT expectations of four months ago; and ca
we sunk into lclhargy under the innuel %
Of hope deferred so our opponents rallied
with new strength born of our weakness.
Only those Of tho most vigorous Faith aud most
unyielding determination held out against this
general apathy; while the hall-hearted and
tho faint-hearted deemed that all struggle
was impotent against the vigorous opposition
setting in against an Administration in whom
confidence was so much shaken, and which it was
feared must be overwhelmed by party promis
ing TO lead the nation, in some way, out Of the
wilderness of INDIGESTION, of doubt and of imbe-
city. To those who demanded Peace at any
rate were added those who preferred Peace to a
pro,racted and runous war, which, it was feared,
could only end in disgrace and disaster. From
this positive temper on the one hand, and this
doubling and despairing spirit on the other, we
seemed Fastening only to defeat.
No careful observer Of pu,lic opinion for the
last few weeks can deny that this is true state
ment Of what its condition has been. No
rational man, we think can deny that it need
not have come about that had we not, to
use the slang Of the street, "discounted"
success and built upon an enthusiasm that was
yet to be created, had we patiently awaited
events, and made up our minds to accept disaster
if disaster was to come, resolved upon facing the
situation, whatever it might be, and then 90 in
and win with the best man we could find To lead
US to victory, whether Abraham Lincoln o.
somebody else, that we should have started or
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