The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-05-26

walk the streets and speak, write, publish
and vote by sufferance, not because it is
their right"
O. boo-hoo-boo hoo for the abused ''Dem-
ocrats and Fremont men!"
Postponmcnf of the National COnven-
--- ton.
We have received Circular Petition to
the National Executive Committee to the
Union and Republican PARTIES, for Post
ponment of the National Convention for the
nomination of candidates for President and
Vice President of the United States for the
ensuing term. The postponment is asked
for on the ground, that the country is not
now in position to enter into Presiden-
tial contest; that it is verv important that
all parties friendly to the Government shall
be united in support Of single candidate;
that upon the result of measures adopted by
the administration to finish the war during
the present spring and Summer, will depend
the wish of the people to continue in power
their present leaders, or to change them for
those from whom they may expect other
and more satisfactory results.
The Circular is signed by W. G Bryant,
Horace Greeley, Peter Cooper, Geo. Opdyke,
Francis Leiber S. B. Hunt Geo. P. Putnam,
and several other gentlemen and contains
a request that we sign the circular and re-
turn it. There are certainly some good
names attached to this petition-of men
with whom we have long acted politically,
and hope to continue to act for long time
to come But there are some things about
this matter, that we cannot see in the same
light that they do. We cannot see that
by the postponment of the nominating con
vention, the acrimony and duration of the
Presipential strife will be allayed and less
ened. On the other hand it strikes us thai
the worst part of the Presidential
strife will occur before the convention
The gentlemen who have gotten up and sent
10TH bLlIS ClICuldl pOLlGlOh SlAS" - N'AS-A
course, that much of the discord among the
friends and supporters of the present admin
istration will be allayed by the nomination
of a candidate for President. They admit
the Importance of union of all parties friend
ly to the Government, upon single can
didate, and we take it for granted that they
will gracefully yield to the will of a major
ity of the delegates of the people assembled
in national convention, whether thai
be held in June or October. That being
taken for granted, it seems to us that the
earlier the convention is held the less rancor
and personal feeling there will have to be
sacrificed in submitting to the decision OF q
majority of delegates. After the convention
we believe all friends of the Government
will they certainly should) unite in one
grand effort against the common foe instead
of fritering away the strength of the cause III
mutual elimination and recrimination, tc
the great delight of our enemies. These con-
sideratious we believe will do away with
the strongest argument of the petition.
We do not believe the issue of the pres ent
campaign,or the result Of the measures
adopted by the administration this spring
and summer, will decide the wishes of the
people in reference to the continuing il
power their present leaders. The people are
unanimously in favor of the denomination
of the present incumbent of the Presidential
chair-not so much on account of what HI
has accomplished, as from their beliefin his
perfect honesty and patriotism, and in thei
conviction that he has done and will do, al
in his power to crush the rebellion, and restor
the Union and with it, peace to the country
With this fully established, the result of thi
spring and summer campaign is not golnE
to affect the views of the people. They be
lieve, if it is possible thing to bring the
war to successful issue this spring Pres
ident Lincoln will do it, and if he canno
do it with his experience, they will not be-
lieve that some untried and inexperienced
man could have done it. True, the failure
of the spring Campaign to close the war
will give his personal opponents an oportu
tunity to stir up i'll will and opposition
among the less enlightened portion OF the
people. In other words the acrimony of the
Presidential strife may be indefinitely in
creased by the very course that these gen
tIemen would take to shorten its duration
and alIay its acrimony. True, such {
course might result in the nomination o
some other candidate, and we think that il
the main object of tie postponment Of thu
Convention. We must confess to being Sc
much one of ''of the people, that we are il
favor of the nomination of Old Abe, because
we believe he is pre-eminently honest ear
nest and patriotic, and because we believ'
he has shown himself capable under thu
most trying and difficult circumstances. Il
he has not the tact of the skiIlful demagoguC
and diplomat, he has those qualities of the
head and heart that are far more essentia
to the interests of the people.
| CRUMBS OF CNMFoRT.-We have heard
tell of picking crumbs Of comfort" from
the most untoward circumstances, and from
the most unlikely and unpromising places
but we have never seen so impressive an ex
ample of it as the following. Our cotempo-
rary of the Milwaukee Neags is noted for that
sort of thing but even he, never picked SC
small ''crumb of comfort" before The
Marquette Express is little, insignificant
sheet, but the most intensely democratic
and the most shamelessly disloyal, of any
rnnrnr. IN the State the Neace not excer,t cd