Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-06-13

thing. 1t was likewise feared aud hoped
that Jim Lane and his radicals from Kan
sas, aud Drake and his radicals from Mis-
ouri, would open out the question of negro
in the casslof The MoutaI q
territory question in Congress : but 10 such
thing happened. Il wHsilikewise coujec-
tured that the mixed delegation sent from
South Carolina. headed by Brig. Gen.
Rufus Sexton, a white man, aud tailed by
Robt. Small, q negro, would, if all other
1istracting elements failed, prove the evil
wedge. But no such thtug. The deIega.
ton IRON South Carolina was not even in
the committee's report admitted 10 the.
floor, aud the Convention raIlfed the report
With signal emphasis. Never did a ION
ventiou Seemingly have Soylla and Char.
ybdis more plainly confronting and threat
ming them-but see how smoothly-how
speedtly-how all but unanimously aud
how hArmOniously both the rocks aud the
CULTS were avoided. Such escapes are
worthy to be instanced as showing how
complete and bow oVer-ruling was the Oue
sentiment that bound together the ConVen-
ton, viz, the determination to know moth
ing else but the imperrilled cause of the
country. . .us lee
With view to breaking up the CouVen-
ton and making it failure, the partisaus
of Fremont caused TO beprofusely scatter
ed along the seats of members a circular
coutaiug question for A6rahns's trienGs'-
the substance of which you will hud in
Fremonts letter accepting the Cleveland
nomination. But the questions were as
silently and efectually ignored as was
Fremont's 'letter-and as much SO as his
nomiuAtion has been and will be. All the
efforts of those in bis interest fell dead,
and it ever there was literally and truly
n dead cock in the politicel pi. it is now
Major General John C. Fremont. Not only
have he and his partisans been utterly up.
set by the proceedings and platform of
the Convention just adjourned, bnt so like
wise have the waiting and watching cop
perheads been ruefully set back 10 their
hopes. One of the first evidences of this
is seeR in the Washington letter of a cop
perhead paper herein which the proceed
iugs of the Democratic club at national
headquarters are given. 1t is proposed, 1
see, to adjourn the Fourth of July.Mc-
Clellan Chicago Convention for a logger
period, and in the meantime to devise vays
and. means for uniting all the odds and
ends OF anti Lincolnism in one aggIoner-
ated whole, regardless OF principles or pro-
fessions. Salisbury, who staegers into
the Senate Of the United States, drunk,
and daunts pistol in his side pocket, was
the principal speaker. Think you that
such desperate move under such goddess
and unpriucipledn leadership will succeed?
Never. The copPerhead Organization, in
GLIDING its Fremont reinforcement, will
perish ignobly with this summers political
aud war campaign.
The nomination of Andy johnson, by the
Convention just adjourned, was one OF the
same sort of occurrences as the nomiua-
ton of Mr.. lincoln, viz: sort of spon
taneous falling in with the popular impul-
ses. On the frst day the re nomination of
Hsmlin was considered as scarcely doubt.
full. Pennsylvania was for him, and SO It
was supposed, would be all New England.
But New England went to pieces on him,
apparently without a struggle to prevent
it. Whether the ab lndonment on her part
of angEasIern, man was caused by the
SdmiLtauce of the Tennessee delegation.
which, at the time was Interpreted as a
johnson vote, is more than l can tell
Certain 1t is that she dropped Hamliu
with the least possible manifestation Of
regret. Some people tell me thst the Vice
President has no friends, and no force
within himself. They say further that one
half his time he does not preside in the
Senate; that he has large lumber yard in
Washington, where he spends much OF his
time in specializing in lumber, newly arri.
rived to his order from the State of Maine,
II this is so, he has probably by this time
been made 10 realize that such fidliug in
Rome is duly appreciated by the represen.
tAtiyes of the American people.
determined effort was made, by not a
few TO nominate Daniel S. Dickinson, of
New York, for the second place on the ticket.
IL
viz: former hard shell democrat, auuouu-
ced and euIog,zed his name. But it was no
go with the Convention any more than IL
bad been with the New York delegation,
themselves, in caucus the day before. Dick
insou, could not be forgotten, as the com.
petitor, who 10 the seceders' Convention in
THIS city four years ago, closely pursued
/ Breckenridge for the Presidential nominA.
ton. Neither ought any such man to ba
| forgotten in such times as these, and
10 such matter as the possible presiden.
cy Of these United States We have had
one John Tyler. In addition to this para.
mount consideration, it was considered as
asking the soft shell democracy OF New
fork-men like Preston King, who had
been terribly abused and prosecuted BY
Dickinson in times past-to swallow an
unnecessary pill. Add the same conside.
A0S'OH oPPAGN " Tue douglas men OF the
west, who had been dealt with in the same
way. 1t was felt that Mr.. Dickinson, right
and sincere as he might now be in his able
advocacy Of the Union cause, had in times
past been very wrong and very insincere.
The same feeling that made Massachusetts
only give Butler two votes, viz: want of con
overwhelmingly defeated Dickiu-
son. Moral retribUtion asserted its ancient
and world.preserving sway in both these
cases.
By virtue of such nominations as that of
Lincoln and johnson the county has given
an evidence to the world that the United
States of America, whatever else may be
falling them, are losing nothing of their
Partially for essential democracy, Two
men are before the world for our two high.
est positions who were born poor and OBJ
scure; who had not the advantages of edu
cation; one Of whom could not read at the
age OF twenty-on years; one of whom split