Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-06-29
POstpOnement of the Chic ago
Convention.

We were about to write an article on
the postponement of the Chicago Conven-
vention, but we clip the following from
the Philadelphia Age, that truthful and
reliable Democratic paper of the State,
and ask our readers to give the following
remarks careful perusal.
THE MEETING OF THE CHICAGO CON-
VENTION POSTPONED TILL AU-
GUST 80.
At meeting of the Executive Committee
OF the National Democratic Committee, held
in New York On the 22d day Of June. 1864,
1t vas voted that, in Difference to the desire
OF large number of the leading members
of the Conservative Union Democratic party
throughout the country, the meeting Of the
Democratic National Convention be post
poned to Monday, August 90, 1864, at
twelve O'Clock, noon, at Chicago.
AUGUST BELMONT,
Frederick 0. PEARCE, Secretary.
"Ihe National Democratic Committee
have acted wisely in posponing the meet
ing OF the Convention. This action WAS
not only just Difference to the almost
unanimous opinion Of the Democracy of
the Middle and Western States, but was
tilat which suggests itself as proper and
decorous to every man who feels that
there is higher duty in party than APP
preparation of spoils The Democratic
party could not afford to tarnish it's fame
by an exhibition of such gross indecency
as has just been perpetrated by the late
conventions of the Abolitionists, in huck-
sterlng and wlre-pulling for places whilst
thousands of their fellow-citizens are
lying manned and dying on the fruitless
battle-fields of Virginia, and the question
OF our defeat or success is still an open
one. No Democrat has time now to
think OF canvasses or of electioneerinc
His heart is with his suffering brother on
the James River; his eyes are turned with
an anxiety which permits no release of
watchtullness on the end of that mighty
struggle IT. which the fate of a continent
is being decided. The present moment
we all feel TO be no time for making po-
l1tcal nominations. Can ward process
ION recall US from the deathly tramp of
the armed contending hosts? Are we TO
be turned from the shriil reville or the
bugle blast of the laundering charge by
placarded omnibus full of droning
tronbonists? Amid the mighty events
now trans3iring, perhaps decisive of our
fate, and that Of our posterity, such
sounds would jar upon Democratic senses,
as the blatant voice of John Hook CRYING
" Beef Beef" did on the soul of Pat
rick Henry, in the full fervor of his pa
trlotic zeal. The time is too large, too
full OF big events, for such small aims.
such subordinate interests. A display of
personal selfishness beside an individual
coffin is revolving to our sense of decency
how much greater is our disgust and alb
horrence in such exhibitions over the
grave OF our country and our liberties.
The postponement of the Convention is,
besides, another evidence of the deep
foundations on which the structure of the /
Democratic party is laid. 1t has no one
man to exalt, no individual to gloryfy at /
the expense of its principles and the ma
tons interests. 1t is a matter of com
parltlvely small moment to it what name /
Is inscribed on IFS banners, for Its cohorts /
rally under an undying principle. Its
leader is sure to be faithful, for its fol-
lowers would fight under no other that
they have chosen him, stamps his adhe- /
sion to Its creed, as the mint mark on the /
com stamps It's purity, it can we'll afford,
therefore, to wait and watch the varying !
scenes OF the great drama now being
played before us-mighty movements,
which each day create new relations, dis /
place Old opinions, form fresh phases and |
different combinations of circumstances.
10 have refused to acknowledge these
elements, which go to the making up of a
Just decision on the questions which will
come before the Chicago Convention,
would have been to have willfully thrown
away the conditions of success The ac-
lion of the Democracy is never at fault
when it is not premature