Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-06-16
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saen Papers ~ New York
On ehe late GOnventiOm.
The New York Tribune, Post. and Com
.n,rciai .idrsrtisr are the three leading
ad nioist,a,ion organs in the metropolis
The Tribune yields reluctant support y
Lincoln Tor Z. election. 1t sets out w nay
ing that nc has been nominated ofeasSe '"'
majority Of his partisans believe ana Ice
that Mr.. Lincoln ought to be recosn'Aeu an
deferred to as President in every part y
the country" In other wo'dS' Their h'gh
est aim is to secure personal qualification
10 Mr.. Lincoln rather than to achieve srea
purpose that will result favcrably to tn
national cause or, the personal wishes an'
interests Of Mr.. Lincoln are TO be mad
subscrvicnt to national interests. The force
Of this consideration, the Tribune argues, u
far outwcighed by its own rebound be
cause the very fact that the friends of Mr.
Lincoln insist upon revisiting for another
term his obnoxious administration upon
those politically opposed to him and those
in rebellion. will concentrate and intensity
the hostility to him and incidentally dam
ave the national cause with which his per
sonal interests are thus identified II then
concludes. 1--WE cannot but feel that i
would have been wiser and safer to spike
the most serviccable guns Of our advcrsar-
les bv nominating another for President. =
We believe Me Rebeiiion uo"hI hare iosf
soas Of its cohesion anil reaom from the houl
in which il was known that a new President
would surely b. inaugurated on the 4th oil
March next. We bow to
tn .ir (thc majority's) decision, and ardent
l., hope that the result may vndicate their
sagacity and prove our apprchensions un-
founded
L. another column Of the 7ribune, Sam
ucl Wilkcson, one Of it, editors, writes from
Baltimore over his own signature a history
Of the Baltimore Convention, extracts OF
which are not inappropriate here. Speak
iny Of the Rotten Borroughs represented he
says:
Arkansas, where under Banks we have
been whipped not only out Of our boots, but
ont Of our actual political possession OF the
soil sufi lent TO elect hog-rccvc-Of Lou
isiana, where We have political possess on
;lst 80 far as our 3o-pound Parrot guns viii.
,,n,l not an inch further of Tcnnrs-
go, were ~ have juris LECTION and polit
foo,bod haaffwy "a, a. fisherman in Fundv hav,
Tide. and not ono intIl'b and food Of tn
Colorado, Nebraska, scarcely nel. Nevada
ritories in whose behalf when knock TT.
at the Electoral College and clhowing olde,
Massachusetts, and younger New York in
their hot hunger and thirst after the re-
wards OF politics, not one word could be in
vented for public avowal save that their al
mission to the Convention wcu.,. help three
several schemes t. bring them into the
Union as States
AS to the Vice Presidency Mr. Wilkeson
says:
The New York Delegation would have
nominated him dickinson had they not
been confronted with the persistent objrc
ton that if New York had the Vice Prcsi
irnry under the new administration, VIZ.
S,icud c"uid not retain his piace in Me Cob-
int az &cretory Of State.
The Ere"ing Post nominally supports the
candidate. as it is Of course in duty bound
to do while one of its chief editors holds the
latest federal Office in New York-wc
from $4,000 to 100000 yesr ,rh
nounces the platform whic' but de-
candidate and the = II endorses that
ton and thu ..cts of his administra-
ticket =. throws cold water upon the
In the face Of the fifth resolution
it takes up tie verdict Of 50, 900 against U.
S. Marshal Murray, for the arbitrary pro-
ceedinys in the case Of Mr. Patrie. 1t says
'the decision is just and adds
Arbitrary arrests are hazardous cxpc-
rimcnts. The courts are open, and where
men feel that injustice has been done them,
they are very apt to seek--and quite certain,
IRE belifre, to obtain-justice .f,om item
Mr.. Patrie has done much more sensible
act than if he had gone home, and following
the advice Of certain coppcrhcad Journals,
attempted to stir ur riot. Those Journals
woul have acted much more wisely had
they advised all to obey the law, and to APP
peal to the law for protection, or for dam
ages if protection is in any instance with
hid.
Tn, Commercial Adcertiser assumes n
position of total indifference with regard to
the Lincoln ticket, and on the fifth resolu-
ton says:
It is the precise point where the Convcn-
ton might have spoken word against the
abu-es th,t have crcpt in; but they chose
to ignore and disregard the experience OF
the p,st three years. and to overlook arbi-
trary an unu>titiabe acts of the Admins
tration. which have been rcpuliatcd or crit
icz ii by its best friends II IS impossible
even Cor the staunche>t adherent of the Ad-
ministration to applaud oUHs arts and mea-
sures,' or to commend all the policy tina,
has ben adopted. Yet the resolution
makes no reservation.
The three journals quoted represent the
feeling and views Of a large mass of the
men wha cast their votes FOR Abraham Lin
cola four years ago They stand above the
hippant putting and brainlcss twaddlc Of
such stipendiary prints as might be named
by the score The Post is the only one vi
thu three that enjoys federal patronage in
tn, sanctum, but even that dc, IS not hinder
it from speaking rs above. The signs are
unmistakablc that the People as d.stin-
guishcd from office holders. office expec-
tantS, contractors and their friends and e.