Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-06-09
GRANTS Campaign-The Cleveland
and Baltimore Conventions.
New York, June |, 1864

city yesterday. i found great excite
ment prevailing, both in view of the
splendid campaign of Gen Grant, and
strange as it may SEEM in view also OF
the action of the Cleveland Convention,
which placed Gen, Fremont and Gen.
Cochrane in nomination for the Presi-
dency and Vice Presidency, upon radi'
cal and well defined platform of princi-
pies. OF the campaign of Gen. Grant
about which your readers will be duly
informed before this letter can reach you,
say nothing more, than that 1t Is pro-
ducing its legitimate effect here In re-
newal of hopes and confidence in the Ad-
ministration. 1t is not known what a
day may bring forth, but it is certain
that at the hour Of the present writing
the city is exultant in the near pros
pect of the capture of the rebel cap
ital, if not the utter humiliation Of
General Lees army if he ventures
a battle outside the entertainments of
the city and its capture if Lee allows
himself to be besieged within its fortiti-
cations. The news from the front is
awaited with the most manifest anxiety
and all the bulletin boards in the city are
closely watched for the latest intelli-
gence. A buoyant feeling is cheering all
hearts, and an effect upon Wall street
may be anticipated if the present current
of good news is continued.
1t was my purpose, particularly, to
say something in reference to the Cleve-
land Convention. The result seems to
disappoint nobody here who has been
posted as to the purposes of the conven-
ton. While much eXultation is mani
tested on the part of thepeace democrats
in the hope that it is to result in a hope
less division of the anti-slavery element
of the north, not much solicitude is
felt by those who will cast their for
tunes with the action of the Balti-
more Convention which is to meet next
week, and without doubt re-nominate
President Lincoln, with either Andrew
Johnson of Tennessee as Vice President,
or Daniel s. Dickinson of New York,
whose chances are said by the knowing
ones to be good. Dickinson's name is a
tower of strength among the War Demo,
Gratis of this and other states, and he
has strong friends. But Gov. johnson
is considered to be by many an equally
available candidate and his nomination
will be considered less sectional than tC
| make up the ticket from the free states
exclusively
The Cleveland junta which has nomina
ted Fremont and Cochrane can not make
any head against Lincoln and johnson
or Lincoln and Dickinson provided th'
Baltimore Convention is wise in adopt
ing platform. There can be no danger o
making ii too radical on the question Of slapery
The northern people are practically
unit upon that subject, They conside
slavery dead, and that it must be got rit
of, in the most direct and at the sam
time by the most practicable means. The,
are determined, moreover, that monarch
shall get no foot hold on this continent
| have no fear but that the platform il
respect to slavery, to be promulgated a
Baltimore will be satisfactory to tn
people. Wisdom in mere policy may die
tate, however, that in respect to our for
eign relations, the convention shoul'
observe silence, relying upon the wei
known and long established course O
the nation in times past, and leaving t
the future when the rebellion shall b
subdued, the settlement Of what mus
inevitably be Interior to it. The convic
ton is firm that moderate and wis
counsels will prevail at Baltimore, ant
that such a ticket will be placed in nom
nation, and such platform adopted, a
will meet with the cordial approval an
support of all loyal men. Mere office
seekers, and disappointed politician
may rally for while around the stand
ard of Fremont, but the masses will nc
be beguiled into dividing their forces i
the momentous political campaig
which is impending.
Yours in haste, d.