Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-06-15

| holders and Of present aud expectant dependents
upon executive favor, have stihed their own
Preferences repressed their honest convictions of
right. bowed submissively 10 the will OF Abraham
| Lincoln, and nominated him for reelection.
/ The World has contained full accounts of the
proceedings. But this convention subserylent
! a il has been. is the most remarkable il not the
most important political assemblage ever seen
| in America. In the haste OF writing what &C
taally transpired of the outward and formal pro-
| ceediugs of the convention, many things were
necessarily omitted The full history OF the
convention requires account of some
.cr5 remarkable and highly significant features
OF the affair. which have not yet been mentioned.
Some of these features manifested themselves in
the most important actions of the convention,
namely, in the admission and rejection of dele
gates from certain States, in the tone and spirit
of the platform. and in the nominations Others
of these features, however. were kept carefully
/ concealed were confined TO secret deliberations
| their very existence was unknown TO the majority
of the delegates, and il not suspected by
them now And when the fullness of time has
come and the mask is thrown off. the majority of
the members of the convention will be astounded
at the sharp game that has been played on them
and at the success which will have attended the
plots of those who. they will then see, led them
| like lambs to the sacrifce-no, they are not ex-
actly lambs-like buIlocks to the slaughter.
Mr.. LINCOLN SLEEPING on VOLCANO.
Reposng on what he conceives to be the IN
bounded confidence of the delegates in himself,
rs expressed By the unanimous nomination on
the first ballot, and on the belief that he may
count on the unwavering support of each ndvid-
ual delegate, to the extent of his ability. from
now TO the end of the canvass, Mr.. Lincoln will
sleep soundly at nights, and indulge in the pleas
| ing dream OF four years more OF absolute power
| Let him not deceive himself. He sleeps upon a
volcano He is sold. If he depends for his cleo
| ton upon the influences which the members of
this convention are 10 bring TO bear upon the
people, he will be so badly beaten in the election
that the people will wonder at bis insutferable
vanity in supDosing. for moment, that he could
be elected. If Mr. Lincoln intends to be elected
he must so straight TO work. and, leaving the
management OF the wRr 70 Gen. Grant, he must
| bend all his energies to the political canvass He
must get up early and sit up late. take off his
| coat and work great deal harder than he ever
did when he splitting rails at fifty cents
day, at which time he was indeed an honest man
There is only one mode by which Mr.. Lincoln
can possibly be elected. Ii be permits the cleo
tons in the States to be free and untrameed he
will be defeated by the means that have alluded
| to in the first paragraph in this letter He must
call into operation the machinery of which Con
gress most unwisely gave him the control. He
must see to it, that the November elections in the
States OF Pennsylvania New Ork New Jersey
| Ohio, Indiana Illinois. and perhaps some Others
are conducted in the same manner as the last
elections in Delaware and Maryland were. Pre-
texts for such course will not be wanting az the
time IL will require the presence of "A large ar
my But there will be plenty of troops north of
the Potomac and Ohio by that time.
PLoTs AGAINs Mr. LINCOLN.
| Candidates ut national conventions are usually
nominated in order that they may be elected
| Mr. Lincoln was nominated in order that he might
be defeated His election will depend upon three
| things FIRST upon the course taken by the
friends of Mr. Chase Second upon the course
taken by those delegates (and the CONSTITUENCIES
which they represent) whose real preferences are
/ for Fremont but who for the sake of harmony in
the convention, stfed those convictions and voted
| for Lincoln. And third, upon military success.
| am far better qualified now to speak of the po-
sition in which Mr. Chases friends stand than at
| the time ! wrote my last letter. Well. relate
| aQW what | said then The influence OF Mr..
Chase and of his friends will not be used in favor
of the election of Mr. Lincoln, but will be thrown
with all the weight they command, and all the
power they can WELD. in favor of the man who,
| in October next shall stand head and shoulders
above any other man in point OF availability.
| It NAV be Mr. Chase himself IL is more likely
to be General Fremont. Ii will not be Mr. Lin
coin.
THE CHASE MES PREPARING TO BOLT.
1t is not in times like these that party usages
party rulers will retain the action of so power
| full body OF men will rally under Mr. Chase.
| To the shame of the convention be it said that
no sentiment expressed in it more loudly APP
plauded than that uttered by Mr. Breckenridge.
of Kentucky. that the right of revolution was
| Incorporated in the Constitution, and that they.
the Republican party, meant and intended to
change the form of our government as often as
they pleased. The Chase men applauded this
sentiment with the rest What did that all
mean? 1t meant that when the time for action
came, their action should not be hampered by
| party usageS or party rules: and that il was not
TO men who thus talk slibly about 'Constitu
ton torn into ten thousand pieces" and who
denied that our national life depends upon
maintenance of that Constitution (and these we're
the very words used by Mr. Breckinridge)-that
it was not TO such men that they would look for
the guidance of their political action.
MASTER SPIRITS or THE CONVENTION.
Among the master-spritS Of the Conven ton
were Hon Henry j. Raymond Mr. Tremaine
and Preston King OF New Yark: Simon Came
ron and Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania and
Senator jim Lane. of Kansas Mr. RAYMOND
] D.
and it fearful error on the part of Mr..
Lincoln not TO have insisted that this should be
/ SO. But this apart Mr.. Raymond displayed far
more knowledge of parliamentary law, and more
ability in the management of deliberatve assem-
blaSes, than any other delegate on the floor.
/ The most eloquent speech of the Convention
/ unless that OF Dr. Breckenridge alluded to be
considered so that of Mr.. Tremaine In IA
vOr of Daniel ) Dickinson for Vice President
! Mr. Cameron and Mr. Stevens both exerted them
selves to the exclude the delegates from the rot
! ten -boroughs. but only succeeded in the case of
South Carolina: and | am assured that it i a
positive fact that the delegates from South Caro-
| lima would have been admitted. had IL not been
for the influences which these two gentlemen
brought To bear upon the committee on creden-
tials. through Governor Reeder And now mark
this prediction. Before the end of October the
New York Times and Tribune will join the Gin
cinnati Gazette in supporting John c. Fremont
for the presidency. and the war Democrats of
New \ ork INSTEAD OF going for Lincoln. as Mr.
Tremaine said they would il Dickinson was nom
inated) will support either Fremont the nomi
nee of the Chicago Convention.
WHAT THE DELEGATES THINK or THE MILITARY
SITUATION
have said that Mr. Lincolns election depends
upon military success What mean is. that this
i what is believed by the influential members of
the convention. the men whose efforts secured his
nomination. and who do not desire his election
/ These mon know Or least they helieve that