Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-06-30
Rebel Views OfOur Nominations
A Raii-spIitter and a Tailor.
Richmond and the 4th of July.
Davis Relies upon the
Democrats.
They W'tU Go For Place
and !Sp0iIs.
Their Interest is TO Weaken the
Union Armies and Break
Down the Finances.

IN Baltimore have renominatcd for Presl-
dent of their country Abraham Lincoln. the
Illinois rail splitter, and for Vice President
Andrew Johnson, known in the West as the
Tennessee tailor, one of the meanest Of that
craft; whether they shall ever be elected or
not depends upon the Confederate army al
together.
The people Of the enemy's country have
now .we Black Republican tickets" before
them; and the Democrats are to come yet.
All these several movement. we are obliged
to watch. and, it possible, understand--by
reason Of their possible effects upon the
war; otherwise we have no earthly interest
in the matter; and five were now OF peace
with that nation it would be altogether in
different to us what ape, or hyena, or Jack
ass. they set up to govern them.
The great army of contractors. then, and
office holders-in short, those who live by
the war, and on the country-have succeed
ed, at least, in starting Lincoln fairly for an
other race. 1t amounts 10 declaration
that those conventloners desire to see four
years more in all respects like unto the last
four years. They want no change at all; to
the present incun bents Of power and profit,
all works well enough as it is. They care
little, perhaps, about the ''Emancipation
Proclamation or the exact definition which
may be applied to Lincoln, as an immediate,
or essential, or contingent Abolitionist; care
little indeed, about politics at all, or princi-
plies, or the destiny Of their nation, or other
''abstractlons" of that sort; they are practi
cal men; and what they know and feel in
their inmost souls is, that four more years
Of reveliug at will in treasure and plunder
will make them all rich enough, them and
their descendants to the third and fourth
generation.
1t appears, also. that Lincoln and his
friends have been lucky, for so far, in the
i'll success OF Grant and Butler and in their
precise measure Of i'll success. IF either Of
those two had taken Richmond before the
Convention, then Butler or Grant would
have been nominated for President. If
they had been already utterly and decisive.
ly defeated. and their armies cut to pieces,
then neither Lincoln nor any other Black
Republican would have had the slightest
chance Of election. So essential was it for
the right guidance of the Convention in this
matter that Grant should not take Rich,
mOnd, nor be advancing in triumphant
Lincoin's organ" took care to publish at
length dismal account of the bloody defeat
inflicted on the Federals on the Sd of June,
and to express the opinion that it was a
most disastrous affair. This was true: but
the Times did not state it because it was
true. The Times stated it, notwithstand
ing that it was true, in order to lower Grants
stock in the Convention, just in the nick Of
time-and succeeded. Our soldiers who en-
the Sd strewed the earth in front Of their
intrenchments with 1900 dead and wound
ed Yankees, and there secured the non:ina
ton OF Lincoln over Grant
Lincoln, then, and his gapg have been
lucky, as we said, So far. But to win his
election.in November this indecisive work
of the Federal armies, neither tr.umphantly
victorious nor hopelessly cut to pieces
neither taking Richmond nor taken by
Richmond-wll not do at ALL Grant and
Butler are now at liberty to achieve the
most brilliant success they can, aud the New
York Times will not tell the truth any more,
when tits uniavorable to them. In fact,
the Lincoln party has been reconclsd to the
: delay in capturing Richmond by this consid-
Grafton, among others-that the Fourth OF
July approaches; and they are aware Of the
theory entertained by their cid Acquaintance,
Pemberton, now in high favor at Rich,
mond, and commanding the Notifications OF
the city, namely: that the Fourth of July is
the very best day to surrender place to a
Yankee army, because. in the warmth OF
their qualification at celebrating their ami
versary with triumph, they give good
terms. 1t is like approaching bon uicaRl
after dinner to ask him for favor. And
accordingly, the Yankee nation is now hold
ing itself prepared to pnt on its most graci
I Gus smiles and accord to us the same tender
consideration which has been shown to the
citizens of Vicksburg. Let them only haul
! ekos
and read their Declaration of Independence
ready elected President. In this stage OF
voice; and if it shall continue to battle, re.
pulse, and cut up the Federal forces, and
finally drive them from the soil of Virginia,
as we fsrventy trust, then this Baltimore
, nomination will not gain Lincoln single
, vote in November.
In that case who will be the next Presi
5 dent in the enemy's country? Not Fremont
, with his radical abolition" The era fol
5 that school of politics will be past. But
i there remains another party-the Demo
Gratis; they being also divided at present in
to War Democrats and Peace Democrats
but who would all be Peace Democrats il
the event supposed is, in the event o
! a total failure of the Federal campaign o
1864. Now the very latest intelligenc,
; brought us from that country by specia
channel informs us of these two furthe
facts: that the popular mind became at ono
!, violently agtated on the announcement O
this Baltimore nomination.; and that il
r Maryland, especially, disturbance was ar
) pretended. In fact, the Democrats of tn
i North, who have waited four years, not to
, patiently, trusting TO regain the power an
proft!which they but lately held to be
d Democratic Inheritance, must naturally b
a provoked beyond endurance at this audaci
\ Gus attempt of Lincoln and Seward to rid
e roughshod over them four years more. w
!. learn that the Democrats are now univer
d sally turning their thoughts TO Frankli
: Pierce and the Connecticut Seymour a
y their nominees for President and Vice
= President. To give them the least chanc
4 of eecting those two advocates of peac,
Grant must be defeated, the invasion mus
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