The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-06-14
The New York Tribune on
Lincoln.

The Tribune received the nomination OF
Mr.. LINCOLN in the coolest manner. Its
article Of last Thursday morning was very
curious one Suggesting one Of the ruling
motives, undoubtedly, for the denomination
of Mr.. LINCOLN, namely, that many feit
"that to set Mr.. LINCOLN aside and elect
another President in his stead, would be
plausibly accounted an admission that the
secessionists had some excuse for their trea'
son"-together with some other generall
cations to the same point, 1t remarks:
ave ad nit the force of this considera>
ton but it seems to US far outDet9hed oy
one mat points to different choice, and
which we will here briefly Indicate
The sum of its reasons is-and it IS Ger
tainly of a formidable character-that the
life of the Republic is still in imminent
danger it has powerful and unrelentlng
foes (so the Tbune alleges,) within its &C.
tual jurisdiction the denomination OF Mr.
LINCOLN will intensity their opposition it
will be terribly earnest election campaign;
you cannot we'll clap all the opposition IN
to Fort Lafayette, so as to prevent their
active efforts for other candidates; they
will bring up host of charges against the
Republican candidate, which will be widely
believed, (on account of their indisputable
truth); and that "these charges will con-
vert passive into active and efficient hostil-
ity to the prosecution of the war;" this
state of the case it is which constitutes the
nomination what the Tribune evidently con-
siders a very unfortunate one, indeed.
The Tribune proceeds to say:
"That the President has made grave
mistakes in tho prosecution of our great
struggle, alta,e a,ca'e."
1t is certain that we are getting very
grave admissions of administrative wrong
doing from authoritative Republican sources
every day. Make note of this one
But, says the Tribune:
chat he meant to do wrong, no one
really believes" a..
The sum and substance of this is, that
Mr.. Lincoln has shown himself incompetent
and incapable; that he has made "grave
mistakes" because he knew no better, and
was too obstinate to take good advice. The
result of it all is, that, just as the Tribune
remarks:
"At time when the sore trials Of the
Republic should be nearly over, we feel
that some Of their worst phases are just be-
fore US"
Was such man a proper subject of re-
nomination to repeat these same mistakes
or to commit others, and so lead things on
from bad to worse. No wonder the Tri-
bune is dissatisfied. With very lame and
languid statement Of the trulsm, that what
ever Mr.. Lincoln might have done, he could
hardly have escaped detraction, it goes on
to sly: -...
"And now all the hates and spites and
sights and dsappointments Of four years
momentous struggle are to be conjured up
against him; and against not him only, but
against all who battle with him for the
overthrow of the rebellion.
We cannot but feel that it would have
been wiser and safer to spike the most SER
vicelble guns of our adversaries by nomina
ting another for President. and thus dispel"
ling all motive, save that of naked disloyal-
~, for further warfare upon this Admins
tration. We believe the Rebellion would
have lost something of its cohesion and
venom from the hour in which it was known
that new President would surely be in.
augurated on the 4th of March next; and
that hostility in the loyal States to the Ma.
tional cause must have sensibly abated or
been deprived Of its readiest, most danger
Gus VT apons from the moment that all
were brought to realize that the President,
having no more to expect or hope, could
henccforth he impelled by no conceivable
motive but desire to serve aud save his coun
try, and thus win for himself an enviabc
and enduring fame ...
From all this We infer that the Tribune
may, before many days be found support
ing Fremont, unless it should think it more
judicious to await the action of the great
Democratic Conserv alive Convention.
Mr.. WILKINSON, the Washington editor
of the Tribune, writes the history of the
LINCOLN Convention in terms of contempt
His letter appears in Fridays Tribune.-
Hear him:
1t is history in part of the admission
into the Convention as States, and into the
Federal Union as States, of Arkansas, where
under Banks We have been whipped not
only out of our boots, but out of our actual
political possession OF the soil sufficient to
elect hog-reeve-of Louisiana, where We
have political possession just so far. as our
30 FOUNDER Parrot guns will shoot, and not
one inch further-of Tennessee, where we
have jurisdiction aud political grip Just as
fishermen in Faudy have foothold between
the ebb and flood of the tide, and not one
inch more-of Nevada, Colorado, Nebraska,
scarcely hedged Territories, in whose be,
hall, when knocking at The Electoral Col
iege aud elbOwiDg older Massachusetts, opa