Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-06-16
THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.

nominated President LINCOLN for reelection to
the Office he now holds. Ply m
This result, has been SO long foreseen, and was
SO clearly rendered foregone conclusion by the
instructions under which the great majority of the
delegates met, that the announcement has failed to
elicit any surprise, to awaken the interest which
attaches to the proceedings of such Convention
when assembled under circumstances which call it
to ascertain as well announcethe prcponderant
sense of the body
The considerations which have dictated the re-
nomination of Mr. Lincoln at the present time are
apparent to all. A leading Republican journal Of
New York, presaging only q week ago the result
actually reached by the Baltimore Convention on
Wednesday last, found sufficient explanation of
such result in the fact that the Convention would
"consist largely Of men holding Office under the
present Administration, and who, by that bond,
are bound to partisanship which more disinter-
ested persons would deprecate and avoid" We
do not know how largely the Convention was COM
posed Of such persons, and cannot, therefore, ap-
preciate the weight that should be given to the OBJ
servations of our contemporary on this score, but
we incline to the opinion that aside from the
strength actually impaired to MIR. Lincoln's aspi-
rations for denomination by such adventitious
supports resulting from the present possession of
power and place, he is to-day none the less the
free choice of the great majority of his party and
that the Convention could not have nominate any
other man without defeating the present wishes of
those who compose that party as we'll in private life
rs in public station, And it does not require any
sagacty or nice analysis to discern the elements of
character which give to President Lincoln bis
hold on the confidence and respect of his political
supporters among the people, for even those among
his political opponents who most dissent from the
wisdom of some of his executive proceedings can
do Justice to the personal qualities which have
made him popular with different classes of men.
As our own views of public duty compel us to
hold, with many among the Presidents supporters,
that his denomination at the present time is pre-
mature, we have only to await the progress of the
events which shall enable US more clearly to az
preciate the value and force of his comparative
claims TO renewal Of the power he has welded
during the last four years. The chaos into which
former political combinations have been already
remitted by the stress of the times quite enough
to inculcate the duty of caution in attaching con-
fdence to any whose official merits and capabilities
are at the present moment undergoing tests which
NAV alter the estimates alike of political friends and
adversaries. That leading organ Of the Repubi-
can party, the New York Independent thus dis
misses and postpones the present consideration CT
Mr.. Lincoln's pretensions to reelection:
"As to its candidate, we have nothing TO say-not
word for or against Mr. Lincon-not word for or agans
any other whose may there arse for the good
and sufficient that nomination 10 june, no matter
who may be The nominee, will not be the oal and unater
able nomination To fact 1T is by means impossible, we
do not say probable that the action Of the Baltimore Con-
yenton will be- entirely set sside will depend for t
validity upon its rat6cston by future Convention We,
therefore, altogether dismiss the question Of the candi
dacyuseless TO be now considered, as cannot be now
settled"
The nominee of the Convention for the Vice Pre-
sidcncy has long held conspicuous position in the
politics of the country, and though we have uni.
fsrmly found ourselves in opposition to him, iden-
tilted as he has been with the Southern Democra
cy, We have never failed to admire the frmness
with which he resisted the seditcus purposes of
his political eonfederatcs in the winter Of lS60-6l
We are not apprized Of the considerations which
induced the Convention to ignore tho claims OF
Mr.. HAMLIN to n re nomination, but we are glad
that in looking elsewhere for candidate the Con-
vention selected who, by his geographical posi-
tion, will compel his supporters to renounce the
political heresy which teaches that tho insurgent
States are "out of the Union" or have ceased to
be estates" in legal and constitutional sense.
The platform Of the Convention does not pre-
sent any new or salient features, and deals rather
in common-places than in clear and cogent psliti-
cal discrim,r atoms At least such is our impress
sion on first reading Of the several resolutions
that compose it. As the practical value of the
platform in its most essential parts depends alto
Rether on the success of our armies in the field,
we postpone any discussion of its theoretical me-
rits, involving, on some disputed points, consi-
derations Of expedicpcy and constitutional law re-
specting which our opinions have been too repeat
edly announced to call for any renewed expression