The Placer herald., 1864-08-06
The Baltimore Convention.-..An Inside
View.


The Baltimore Convention.-..An Inside
View.
BALTIMORE, June 9Th, 1864
FACTS PERTAINING TO THE SECRET HISTORY OF
THE CONVENTION.
The convention has adjourned. The long
agony is over. The obsequious body Of office
holders, and of present and expectant de
pendants upon executive favor, have s,tled
their own preferences, repressed their homes,
convictions of right, bowed submissively to
the will of A braham Lincoln, and nominated
him for reelection. Bat this convention,
subservient as it has been, is the most re-
maikable, If not the most important, politi.
cal assemblage ever seen in America. In
the haste OF writing what actually transpred
OF the outward and formal proceedings Of
the convention, many things were necessarily
omitted. The fulI history Of the convention
! requires, now, an account of some very re
malkable and highly significant features of
the affair, which have not vet been mention
ed. Some of these features manifested hem
selves III the most important actions of the
convention, namely, in the admission and
rejection Of delegates from certain states in
the tone and spirit of the platform, and in
| the nominations. Others of these features,
however, were kept carefully concealed, were
confined to secret delberalion; their very
existence was unknown to the majority Of
the delegates, and is not even suspected by
them now. And when the fullness of time
has come and the mask is thrown off, the
majority of the members Of the convention
will be astounded at the sharp game ;hat has
been played on them. and at the success
which will have attended the plots of those
who, they will then see, led them like lambs
to the sacrifce-no, they are not exactly
lambs-like buocks to the slaughter.
MR., LINCOLN SLEEPING ON VOLCANO.
Reposing on what he conceives to be the
unbounded confidence of the delegates in
himself, as expressed by the unanimous nom
inatlon on the first ballot, and on the belief
that he may count on the unwavering sup
port OF each individual delegate to the ex>
tent OF his ability, from now to the end of
the canvass, Mr.. Lincoln will sleep soundly
at nights, and indulge the blessed dream of
four years more of absolute power. Let
him not deceive himself He sleeps upon
volcano. He is sold If he depends for his
election upon the influence which the mem
'S' w WIS GVHN5HlipU are " DllID 10 Dtdl
upon the people, he will be 50 badly beaten
In the election that people will wonder at
his lnsuiferable vanity in supposing for mo
ment that he could be elected. If Mr. Lin
coin intends to be elected. he must 90 straight
to work, and leaving the management of the
war to General Grant. be must bend all his
energies to the political canvass He mnst
get up early and sit NJ late, take off his
coat, and work a great deal harder than he
ever did when he was splitting rails at fifty
cents day, at which time he was indeed an
honest man. There is only one mole by
which Mr.. Lincoln can possibly be elected.
Ii he permits the election in the states to be
free and unbranded he will be defeated by
the means that have alluded to in the first
paragraph of this letter. IL must call into
operation the machinery of which Congress
most unwsely gave him control, He must
see to it that The November elections in the
States of Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and perhaps
some Others, are conducted in tho same man
ner as the last elections in Delaware and
Maryland were. Pretexts for such course
will not be waoting at the time. 1t will re>
quire the presence of large army. Bat
there will be plenty of troops north OF the
Potomac and tho Ohio by that time.
PLOTS AGAINST MR. LINCOLN
Candidates at national conventions are
usually nominated in order than they may be
elected. Mr.. Lincoln was nominated in or
der that he might be defeated. II election
will depend upon three things: first, upon
the course taken by the friends of Mr.. Chase.
Second, upon the course taken by those deli
egates (aud the constituencies which they
represen) whose real preferences are for Ere
mont, but who for the sake of harmony in
the convention stiled those convictions and
voted for Lincoln. And third, upon military
success am far better qualified now to
speak Of the position in which Mr., Chase's
friends stand than at the time wrote my
last letter Well | reiteraie now what |
said then. The influence of Mr.. Chase and
of bis friends will not be used in favor Of
the election of Mr.. Lincoln, but will be
thrown with all the weight they command
and with all the power they can WELD in
favor Of that man who, in October next,
shall stand head and shoulders above any
other man in point of availability. 1t may
be Mr.. Chase himself. 1t is more likely to
be General Fremont. 1t will not be Mr..
Lincoln.
THE CHASE MEN PREPARING TO BOLT.
1t is not in times like these that party
ussges or patty rulers will restrain the action
of so powerful body of men as will rally
under Mr. Chase. To the shame Of the con-
vention be it said, that no sentiment, expires
sed in it was more loudly applauded than
that uttered by Mr.. Breckenridge, Of Ken.
tucky, that the right of revolution was incor
poraled in the Constitution, and that they
the Republican party, meant and intended
to change the form Of our government as
often as they pleased. The Chase men ap-
pIauded this sentiment with the rest. But
they did so with significant smile What