Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-10-06
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1864.
MR. LINCoLN's RECORDING. 1.

.onal friends and oficehoIders of President LIN
COLIN began to agitate for his re-nominaton by the
Republican party, Mr.. HORACE GREELEY, the ed
itor Of the New York Tribune, in public appeal
against the expediency Of such step, wrote as
follows:
Shall 70. reaonnats Mr.. Lincoln and endea0or re.
roduce 80 far as may be, 1860 in 1864 My judgment
dicates different policy, different purpose do not
Seieve that the which true Intelligent regard Tor
the Presidents own happiness and fame would pre-
emptory withdrawal from public life on the 4th OF March,
1866 the closing year of his Presidential term would be
one of the proudes and happest of his life. But
lot him be candidate for denomination and re-esc
tion, and all this will be sadly different The disas-
ssrs The burdens the debts, The hopes deferred Of the last
three upars uil all be reDiped to his prejudice and pa
rsaed before the pubic eye 10 has injury It viii be in
sisted long be without too ready coniutat on
that his eeraom implies repetition OF az that 'oas un
fortunate and discrediab The recent hstoryof
trs ,oih nterninaJe ,oar and imsasuabe debt. The
facts that jackson and Clay alike condemned the reelec
ton of President in Office that both parties have assert
Cd the of the oreterm prnce that no Pre
sdept has for thirty years reeeced though several
have sought be- will all be considered to his dlsadvan
taae; the popular belief that the reelection OF Pres
dent involves the retention in Office OF the great mass OF
his sppointees-every thing would work against m"
Such were the public considerations which in
duced this warm political friend of the President
to oppose his denomination, with the possible con-
tipgency of thereby perpetuating for four years
more "the disasters, the burdens, the debts, and
the hopes deferred" which have marked his Ad-
ministration of the Government during the pre-
sent term Every thing" says Mr.. Greeley,
would work against him" 1t is impossible to
find terms more expressive in which to convey the
writer's sense of Mr.. Lincoln's want of qualifca-
tion for the high oce to which he was raised four
III
Sear, ago, and to which he again aspres by favor
! of the Baltimore Republican Convention.
\ Now that he has been placed in denomination
before the people, Notwithstanding his repeated
nledpes to decline e-electon, and Notwithstanding
the reluctance of large part Of his political friends
70 see him in that attitude, it becomes our duty to
investigate with candor the claims on which he
challenges the popular suffrages, that we may
see how far Mr.. Greeley was right when he iden-
tiled his past Administration Of the Government
vitR " disasters, burdens, debts, and hopes de-
ferred" And to this end we propose to take arevieW
Of the military and civil career Of President Lin
coin during the last three years and half that the
people may Judge whether, in the idea Of Mr..
Greeley, it would be expedient and wise "to re-
,roduce 1860 in 1854" We commence with hi'
Military Record
The Hon. Henry j. Raymond, the editor Of the
New York Times, and the bicgraphcr of Mr.. Lincoln,
thus refers in his History of the Administration
Of President Lncon" to what he calls the Presi-
dents military experience. We quote from the
18Th page of the volume, where Mr.. Raymond
says: o
= io,n, untaa and n
tain He was efficient faithful officer watchfu OF his
men, and prompt the discharge OF duty and hls courage
ara patrotisA ,hrank from no dangers and hard'hPs
Thus the chief OF our armies has not been
without his bit Of military eIperence--much more, IN
fact than the most OF brgader generals had had be-
fore the commencement Of the war.
AS Mr.. Lincoln's biographer appears to lay
much stress upon this military experience Of the
President qualifying him to fll the responsible
most of commander-in. chief of the armies Of the
Union at the present time, when million of mea
are ip the field we are sure that the reader would
like 70 sec Mr. Lincoln's own estimate Of the mill
tsry experience SO highly priced by his admring
b;ographer Accordingly, we quote from speech
delivered by Mr.. LINCOLN in the House Of Repre-
scntatiyos IN the 9th of July, 1s48, as found in
the Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 1,t Ses-
sion of Both Congress, page l,042 Weinfcr from
it that Mr.. Raymond magnifes the position of Mr..
Lincoln ID the Black Hawk war, as it seems that
he carried musket and not sword in that cam
paign Mr.. LINCOLN said:
"By the way, Mr.. Speaker, did you know that am
military hero? Yes in the days Of the Black Hawk
war fought bled, aud came away. Speaking of Gen
t,asss career reminds Of my own was not at Still
mans defeat but about it as Cass was to
Hnlls surrender and like him the place soon after
cards It quite cerian that did not break my sword
tr had none TO break but bent musket pre- y badly
ON one OCCASION If Cass brke his sword the idea is he
broke il in desperation bent the musket by scci.
dent If Gen. Cass went IN advance ofsme iu picking
xvhorteberres guess surpassed him in charges upon
the wild onions IL he saw any live fighting Indians il
xyas more tban did, but had good many bloody strup
rlss with the mosquitoes and, although tainted
from loss Of blood, truly say was often very
hungry Mr. Speaker it, should ever conclude to do what
ever our Democratic friends may suppose there s of black
cockade Federalism about me, aud thereupon they ha
take me up their candidate for the Presidency protest
they shall not make fun Of me- they have Of Gen. Cass
By attempting to wie me into military hero"
As it is not the Democrats but the Republicans
who have committed the imprudcnce of first taking
MP Mr.. Lincoln as their candidate for the Presi
dency, and of now writing him into military her
on the strength Of his experience in the Blacl
Hawk war, we hope that in respect for his protes
they will equally have care not to make fun
Of him on subject as to which in 1s4S he SCENE