New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-05-28
PRRsrDENTrAL.


chosen Delegates to the Democratic National
Convention o. Chicago ard instructed them toI
support Gen. Mcclellan for President and Gov
Bramlette for Vioe-Presidont. eve believe
those of Tennessee had previously indicated the
Hon. Geo. W. Campbell for the second office;
and we presume those of Missouri would prefer
Gen. Frank Blair or acting Gov. Hall: and 50
with other States.) We very much doubt Gov
Bramette's consentng to train in this troop;
but Joshua +. Bell (who was nominated for
Governor before Bramlette, but declincd) would
probably accept; if not, Charles A. WIckhiie
(who ran last year for Governor, but ran SHORTY
doubtless would. If the McClellanites ,aro
badly in want Of a Kentucky candidate for
vice-President they will find some one ready to
make the sacrifice
The Radicals of Missouri have decided, by a
vote in Convention of 2ll TO ~, TO send dele
gates TO the Union Convention at baltimore.
We rejoice that they haze done so. Aud nov
we ask that Convention to give earnest rnpreju-
diced heed 10 their representations and accord
due weight TO their preferences, whatever they
may be- They have richly deserved this. The
creat mass of the Observation-Disclosures were never
members of the Republican party, but acted
and voted with one or the other Of tho Pro
Slavery parties down to the outbreak of the
| Shareholders Rebellion, when they Jaw thclr
ncighbors, friends and relatives, who were deyo-
tees of Slavery, unite with traitors and rebels to
divide and destroy their country. 1t was at
the north-wcst corner Of Missouri (St. Joseph
that the American flag was torn down and
trampled in the mre by a Pro-slayery ban
ditti in tho very outset Of tho struggle.
II was near st. Louis that the frsi
armed force was raised. cncampcd and
drilled in loyal State for the uses Of slave
holding treason; and it was here too, that the
| first effective blow was struck for the maintc-
nance Of the Union by surrounding and capturing
that force in It's camp. Rebellion in Missouri
had not even the poor excuse afforded by State
secesson; for Missouri emphatically and Of
ficially refused to leave the Union OF array her
self against its lawful authorities. But this
made no difference with her traitors, who could
not have "gone with their State" into tho ranks
Of the Rebel armies any more readily or heartily
than they went th,hor against lioir State.
They have mustered 40 strongly and fought as
heartily to destroy the Union as if they had
been able to force their State TO repudiate il.
Missouri gave Lincoln IL, C25 votes in all or
about one-tenth Of her entire poll. She gave
IL, sll votes for Emancipation in 1869, though
her soil was so devastated and her people were
80 scattered and decimated by Civil War that
they could poll but little more than half 50
many vote. as in 1860. She now elected an Anti
Slavery delegation and Legislature at the very
moment when New York, New-Jersey, Pennsyl-
wanna Ohio, Indiana and Illinois were carried
by Seymour, Parker, Ancona, Dawson, Cox
Pendleton, Long. Voorhees,, the Aliens, and
the Woods, eliciting cheers Of exultation from
the ranks OF Lees Army, and inducing Lord
Lyons to write home that the National integrity
was virtually given up, and that tho Democratic
vctors in those elections were ripe for Dis
union Peace. Such was the crisis in which
MISSOURI threw her weight into the Uncondi.
tiona Union scale, and, whereas her represent
atves in Congress had recently refused Com
ponsated Emancipation, their constituents now
voted that they would have Emancipation any
how, and did not wish the masters compensated
at all.
To stand for the Union in Missouri means far
more than in almost any corner Of the Free
States. II involves constant exposure 10 rob-
berry, arson and massacre-to q shot from your
neighbor skulking behind your line fence and
to midnight visitation from the murderous gucr-
rillas Of jeff. Thompson or Quantrell. We es-
innate that not less than Ten Thousand Mis-
souri, Unionists have been killed since the
beginning Of the War. and that fully half these
have fallen victims TO cruel, cowardly assassna-
ton, and that ten thousand Missouri dwellings
have either been destroyed or deserted. Such
are the influences which have educated and
nerved the Radical Unionists Of Missouri, and
they fully Justify our demand that their dele.
gates be accorded patient and unprejudiced
hearing in the Baltimore Convention.
That which is distinotively known as the
Albany call for the Cleveland Convention ap.
pears In our columns to-day, with somo new
and weighty names appended. Regarding this
Convention simply as advisory and as claiming for
its acts no other force than such as their ntrn-