Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-04-13
THE PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION.

THE PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION.
A Washington dispatch says that the
friends of Gen. Fremont do not now care
to have the Baltimore convention post
poned. They have probably come to see
that there is likely to be no great change
of popular feeling in respect to candidates
during the summer, and that there is
nothing to be gained by a delay of the
nomination. AT any rate this is reason
able view Of the subject. 1t might have
been better if the national committee had
fixed the time for the convention two or
three months later, but it is by no means
certain that change of time now would
be polite. 1t would be interpreted by
the enemy as sigu of hesitation and
weakness. And there is not much in the
idea most urged in favor of change.
that the events of the pending campaign
may tell for or against the most p.omi-
nent candidate. The campaign is to be
Gen. Grants, and not the presidents and
although the administration must neces'
sarily share in its glories or its misfor-
tunes. it is hardly to be apprehended that
any thing can occur either in the civil or
military conduct of affairs during the
next six months to damage the general
estimate Of Mr.. Lincoln and his cabinet.
The people understand them thoroughly
now. individually and as the executive
arm of the government, and have made
up their minds as to their merits and de-
merits Nobody pretends that the adj
innistraton is a perfect one, or that it has
had great faults; nor do we think that
any minded man can deny that it has
met and overcome tremendous and appal-
ling difficulties with great wisdom and
success. We can see now how something
better might have been done in some
things, but we cannot hold the admins
tratiop responsible for not acting in accor-
dance with events which no man could
foresec. The Union has been saved and
the rebellion crowded back to half its
original limits, and the reclaimed states
have not only been occupied and held, but
are in process of transformation into free
states by the act Of their own loyal PEG.
pie. All that has been gained has heen
held. and will be held forever for the Un-
ion and Liberty. No man can look back
to the days of doubt and terror through
which we have passed in the last
three years. and not feel that the govern
ment has done something that deserves to
be recounted with satisfaction and pride.
1t is easy to say it might have done more.
but it was not omhiscient, and was fear
fully weak when it entered upon the great
work assigned to it. Those who elected
this administration, at least, should Judge
it with candor and treat it with gencros-
ity. And We believe that the people do
SO, whatever may be true of the politi-
cha Springfield Republican.
d. Mrs. Eunice ID. Potter Of Sheldon,
rs years old, dropped dead, one day last
week. rr
ca There has been terrible excitement
at Burlington and Colchcster-streets bar.
fricadcd, &c.-over a case Of chicken pox
They thought it was "small' affair.
H6A persevofing poetizer in Orleans
county couldn't find publisher to prin,
his verse and SO learned to set type
and printed and bound the poems himself
g. A. M. Clark. Esq, of St. Adams
on Friday last sold u pair Of years OLD
Durham steers, for 5000, to Jerry Bach
elder. Esq, Of Waterbury, who regard,
them to be the latest in New England
They will be on exhibition in State Street
Boston, on Wednesday the 9th inst
Free Press.