Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-06-08
Correspondence ofthe View York World
BALTIMORE, June ,
wao ARR TO COMPOSE rHE CONVENTION.

WHO ARR To COMPOSE fHE CONVENTION.
The arrangements for the National Replbl-
can Convention, which i to assemble here on the
Tth inst, are nearly completed so far as this eity
IS concerned, and but little remains to be done,
except for the delegates 20 come here and take
their seats and obsequiousy register the edicts
OF executive power for that Is all they will do
when they do come. And before | write an
other word let me stop right here ard ask par
don OF the intelligent readers OF the World for
using the words delegates, and Republican"
and national. in this connection. use these
honored words in connection with this wreiched
affair, in this and subsequent letters, under pro
test. and a mere matter of convenience. The
delegates who will come here will be the cring
ing, fawnng sycophants of executive favor. aud
more than bali OF them will be the direct ap-
pOintees of Dir. Lincoln himself. Even those
who have been honestly elected were required,
before their election, To pledge themselves To vote
for Mr.. Lincoln, and 20 support no other candi-
date whatever. ro matter now eminent, capable
aud available he might be.
The delegates in this convention will not re-
present the views or wishes Of the people in the
States from which they come, but the views and
wishes of Abraham Lincoln alone This fact
was ascertained in every instance before they
we're allowed to become delegates The i'm
mense and irresponsible power welded b. the
President has enabled him TO do this He can
Law his hand upon each individual delegate and
say with truth, This man is the creature OF my
will. and his action in the Convention will be in
obedience TO my Instructions" Such are the
delegates in general. | shall have something TO
say of some of them individually, and particu
larly OF one or two. who are exceptions to what
have said.
The administration, in obedience to whose be
hests this Convention will assemble, having
changed the form OF our government from a re-
public TO military despotism, it -, of course, an
impudent cheat to apply the epthet " Republican"
to their party 10 their Convention. And
they have destroyed the nation, aud rendered the
reunion of the States impossible as long as they
remain in power they have shadow of right
to speak of their Conventions as a national" or
Union" Convention.
THE ARRANGEMENTS BEING MADE AT WASHINGTON
The preliminary movements OF the managers
| of the affair are being conducted very quietly
although with no attempt at secresy-attempts
which would be futile. Indeed, there is SO little
to be done by the Conv ention. aud it il so well
| understood what that little is that it could as
| well be done ia of the parlors of the White
House as here if il were not for the sake of pre-
serving appearances for little while longer
All the arrangements. from day to day, are being
| matured az the executive mansion, and by the
! friends and advisers of the President. The wire
| pullers and bottle-washeTS are there not here.
| 1t is only two hours ride from one city to the
other Thedelegates have begun to arrive. But
they do not stop here, except long enough to en-
gage their rooms. They hurry on to Washing
| ton, where they see Mr.. Lincoln, renew 20 him
the assurances of their fidelity loyalty and devo
| ton, and receive their final instructions On
Monday morning, perhaps a. early as Saturday
night, they will be back here, and then the fun
will begin.
EFFECT OF THE ACTION OF THE CLEVELAND CON
yENTI0N.
The action of the Cleveland Convention is
regarded by the Lincoln men as the most unfor-
tunate event that could have happened to them.
Up to the last moment. firm their reliance
upon the actual power of the President, and upon
the success of the schemes which they had on
foot, that they INDUCED the hope that the Cleve
land Convention, after presenting strongly the
claims of Mr. Fremont in the form of an ad-
dress, and after making formidable demonstra
ton OF the strength of Fremont as it exists all
over the country would, for the sake of harmony
and the unity of the party, refrain from making
a nomination, and adjourn to Baltimore. Such
were the hopes that were INDUCED till yesterday.
and large sums of money had been expended in
order that they might be realized. But yes,er-
day the long faces and gloomy visages of the
Lincoln men told how deep and bitter was their
disappointment The nomination of Fremont
and the platform adopted Cleveland is felt to
be severe, some even 90 so far as to say
fatal, blow. Not at the nomination of Lincoln.
That of course is secured. But at his election.
CONSEQUENCES OF THE NOMINATION or FREMONT
Ii Is felt by the more calm rational, and intel
ligent supporters of LincoA. that the nomination
of Fremont. and the platform upon which he
stands, will draw to him so large proportion of
the voters of the Republican party, to say moth
ing of the votes of the War Democrats. which
they allege, he will also receive, that Lincoln
will be left in the lurch at last. The views OF
these men, am satisfied. are we'll founded, and
are worthy of consideration They are old poll
ticians, some of them old Wings Their action
will have great weight in the convention and
YOU ought TO hear the energetic language in
which they denounce these new pledged politi-
clans who affect to consider Fremont aud his
platform as "a mere bagatelle They are sen
sible enough 10 see. and candid enough TO &C
knowledge, that Fremont can draw to himself
tens of thousands of votes which Ender no CIR
cumstances would be cast for Lincoln-the votes
of men who are disgusted with the incompetence
ana weakness of a President who has so little
self-respect as 70 admit that he is incapable of
guiding events but is the slave Of circumstances:
the votes of men who wish 20 see in the White
House "A gentleman of refinement and educa-
ton, and who do not wish to be made To blnsh
any longer at the vulgar Jokes and equally vul-
gar associations that have contaminated the ex-
ecutive mansion; the votes OF men who remem-
Der Miss Lane. and Mrs Pierce. and Mrs Polk
and who desire TO see as the successor of Mrs
Madison. lady who will not forget the dignity
and the duty OF her high position.
TlE FREMONT PLATFORM THORN u LINC0LN's
SIDE.
But what gives these old politicians the greatest
concern is the platform adopted bv the Cleveland
Convention. lOu may Judge how great is their
alarm on this point, when tell YOU that. under
their advice, Mir. Lincoln himself would, at this
moment, gladly go and stand upon that platform
1t ne had not 50 positively committed himself 10
principles so directly opposite Mr. Lincoln's
stupid and pg-headed obstinacy in suppressing
newspapers and the right Of free speech, in tramp
ling the right of habeas corpus. in encourag-
ingSall sorts of peculatiOn and extravaganza, in
iamey submitting 10 national insults, 10 blSely
abandoning the Monroe doctrine. and in pretend
ing % reconstruct States only in order 20 Sc
cure their electoral votes. are all felt to be so
many nails In his political coffin and - many I
hooks on which the friends of Fremont have
adrojtiy seized and by which they will raise their
candidate To the coveted seat of power. unless T
extreme measures are taken 10 prevent H. Re /
speci for individual liberty. the maintenance OF
the personal rights OF free speech and the habeas 4