Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-06-09
RUTLAND HERALD.
FRIDAY, JUNE, 5, 1864,
The Cleveland Convention.

According TO the associated press DIS
matches there were in attendance upon
this Convention from 800 to 400 persons.
According to the correspondence OF the
New York Times there were just loo
present as participants, The remainder
of those present, if'the Times cores
pondent is correct, must have been
mainly Cleveland spectators. But
whether 1856 or 400, it is but flame
and impotent conclusion" of so many
different abored calls, aided by the Free
mont organs as well as by the New
York World, Albany Argus, and other
sheets of that stripe. 1t was even a
greater failure, both in numbers and the
character of its members than was an
ticipated 1t was mass Convention
without the mass. 1t was conven-
ton of delegates" so called, without
the delegates, unless person can be
said to delegate himself. 1t was con-
vention of German radicals and Ameri-
can conglomerates. They had as good
right to get together and undertake to
dictate to the great Union party who
should be their presidential candidate,
as would so many citizens of Rutland.
They represented only themselves,-from
1866 to 400 voters, more or less.
They nominated Fremont and Coch-
rane. Cochrane was present and We
suppose accepted his nomination. 1t is
presumed that Fremont will accept his,
though it is hoped for his own sake that
he will not. Fremont has been warmly
sustained before this by the Republican
party. If he accepts this nomination
his remaining friends must give him up.
For the matter of fact people will look
at it in just this light: the presidency
was not made for the benefit of any
man, but for the good of the country
the Republican or Union party was not
organized for John C. Fremont, but for
the Republic; men are nothing; the
party at the present time is everything,
for IN its success lies the existence Of the Union.
And they will also look at it in this
light every man who took$part in the
Cleveland convention knows - John
Cochrane knows - Fremont himself
knosos-that there is not the ghost of a
chance for the election of the ticket they
put forth; Fremont knoa0s that the only
possible effect Of his accepting the nom-
ination viii be to withdraw votes from
the regular Union ticket and so aid in
throwing.the country into the hands of
the copperheads. The copperheads
know it and urge on the movement with
a hearty zeal The people will see it,
and alas for all the one hundred and
ffty-six to four hundred, more or less,
Cleveland conventionists; alas rather,
for the half dozen of them who had ac-
quired some Bame-for the remainder
had never been heard of before, and in
all probability never will be again. The
people are for maintaining the Union -
they will sacrifice the integrity of the
Union organization, and follow the lead
of irresponsible malcontents when they
are ready to sacrifice their country to
copperheads and rebels,-no sooner
If Gen. Fremont, in the hour of the ma
tons peril, knowing as he does the only
effect it can have, accepts the nomina-
ton, and thus while protesting to be for
the Union, does all in his power to dis
tract and defeat the Union party, it will
be such an exhibition of gross and self
ish ambition, overlapping every dictate
of patriotism, as win utterly disgust his
every remaining friend, (and he has had
many an earnest one,) and bury him po-
litically beyond resurrection,
But whether he accepts or not 1T will
in fact have not the faintest effect upon
the result The people will be repre-
scented in the Baltimore convention. Its
nominees will be supported by every
patriot in the land. The people were
not at all represented in the Cleveland
convention, and its nominees will receive
somewhere about l56 to 400 votes, more
or less, according to the number of vot
ing participants who were actually