The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-06-30
The Baltimore National Conven,
ton.
AZ Described by Donj. +. Taylor.
Correspondence OF the c, icago Journal.

Correspondence OF the Z icago Journal.
BALTIMORE, June s, 1864,
To play Secretary TO the National
Union Convention Was no part of NV
crrand. The details of its action are
already before tho world; few touches
ethereal, few flashes over the wires,
and they were struck by lightning aud
Immortality together.
But may try To gvo your readers, in
u breath or two Of short sentences, II
rough sketch of tho scene. Wien |
reached Baltimore ON Tuesday evening,
an organization had been effected: Maine
and Or6gon had met together. and Little
Rhody sut ut the Golden Gate; a mob,
civil, loyal, purposciull, aud yet mob
had become an organ of roice, aud the
voice was ready Ia speak. The morrow
was to be u Pentacusi, and yet no Babel
Inspired with one hope, ono faith, one
love, they were TO have but one utter.
ancc. II was not dclibc rative body,
for there was nothing to be weighed. IL
was not an executive body. for there was
nothing TO be done. There was some.
thing to say, aud il said il. We all
knew what il would be, but We listened
for IL. Men traverscd half continent;
nay, men embarked on two oceans 10
utter IL.
So II all was on Wednesday morning
at 10 O'clock. FroLt Street Theatre is
thrown open for this strange drama with
one act; this act with one word in it,
The lofty ceiling is canopitd with the
flag; the stars hang in clusters from
column and wall, like ripencd fruit, that
once shonc on Bennington and Saratoga /;
on Vicksburg and Mission Ridge, the
strrs that will light the way TO Rich.
mond, and look down serene upon dead
rebellion.
And beneath the heaven of tho nug,
In one solid column that fills the body
OF the theatre, are the word bearers OF
tue loyal land. There is nothing strange
in the crowd that ! cun see; sprnklea Of
silver among the brown heads, brows
Of cure and eyes without cloud. Moth.
ing strange, until / ,hink that these
men represent every rood on the plane:
to-day, whose the flag blossoms pence
fully oui. Nothing strange, until think
that these men IRE only tongues To utter
the will right loyal and royal of men
Unseen; only the machinery for the Ides
Of November. Then, as think, the
then'r,'s narrow walls wild u uwsy and
melt US il they were mist, and there are
only twenty'sevcn Of us all; tweG'y.six
sovereign States aud the one, poor, lone
man who writes these lines.
forget the three semcirclcs Of men
and women, packed in bx and cutlery,
tier above tier, a zone and half human.
ity. | forgot to tell you thut the old
mechanics md tiukers in politics are
not here, nnd that tho halls Of Congress
arc not emptied into Baltimore. But
no matter for that; the gayel ofPresdent /
Dennlson ialls sharply; the Rev. Mr..
uaduls, OF ONO, makes prayer, to
which old Jucob Trout, of Revolutionary
memory, might have snid irrvent aIne n.
The Federal door is shut upon the Pal.
metto State with olang. It opens to
Missouri, and cheers greet her as she
comes. 1t swings wide again aud Ten.
ncssee has abundant entrance. There
are .eHrs In many an eye the world
counts cold, and dry as the rock of
Horeh before the prophet snloto il, as
Mr.. Maynard so touchingly gives thanks
for the loyal and bleeding hearts of
East Tennessee, and says, "It will carry
joy TO them like that of great victory
in the field Of arms" God knows they
need and deserve il all Was il not n
great thing to be in a hall so vast thar
the doors opened and closed only when
great States stood upon the threshold
And now comes tho Confession OF
Faith, losing nothing by tho clear, en-.
phatic utterance OF Henry ]. RAYMOND.
II cuts broad swath; it leaves not q
weed To wave its lonely head for any
Ossian to rave about. Cheers break in
all along, like the chorus TO a song, and
when, with the closing Resolution, a
warning glance is flung over tho salt
water, they nre all caught mp, like T. jah
IN chariot of fire, and adopted W III one
heart and nne votce. The day wears or;
the bricfcsl of days in all the culend r.
I, was ten. The clock is on the sfruk
Of two. The word they have come 10
saw is We, u"uttered. Pspnsylysnia
writes "Fnr President. Abraham Lincoln
~ Illinoisd' illinois is "a auiver 10 ssv
"Abrvham Lircol,, Of Illinois" II
could havo swept through ihs Convor-
tim like the June hurricane in Iowa,
few summers ago. Cheers fntter us.
iu' liner coun-"ls prevail. Saws NJ
Ravmonf,it has been asserted thar W.
viii ati"mnt 10 make The nomination rid
the whlTiwind of exclamation. Get us !