The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-06-08

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! The Action at baltimore.
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lLiucOIn's denomination Fatal
| ''.L to the Country.
| GENTLEMEN: In answer to the letter,
which have had the honor to receive from
YOU. on the part of the representatives OF
the people assembled at Cleveland, the 3Ist
of Nav, desire to express my thanks Tor
i the confidence which led them to offer me
the honorable and difficult position OF their
candidate in the approaching presidential
election. .
/ Very honorable, because in Offering It 70
me, you act in the name OF great mum
Der of citizens, who seek above all Things
the good of their country, and who have no
sort Of selfish interest in view. Very DIM
cut because in accepting the candidacy
Won propose to me, am exposed to the
reproach of creating schism in the party
with which have been identified.
Had Mr. Lincoln remained faithful to the
principles he was elected to defend, no
schsm could have been crested and no con.
test would have been possible. This Is not
an ordinary election; it is contest for the
right even to have candidates, and not
merely, as usual, for the choice among
them, Now for the first time since l776,
the question of constitutional liberty has
been brought directly before the people tor
their serious consideration and vote. The
ordinary rights secured under the Constttu
tion, and the laws Of the country haze been
ciolated and extraordinary poaoeri has been
usurped bv tie Executive. 1t is directly be-
fore the people now to say whether or not
the principles established by the revolution
are worth maintaining. g.
If as We have been taught to believe,
those guarantees for liberty which made
the distinctive name and glory OF our
country are in truth inviolably sacred then
there must be q protest against the arbl-
trary violation which had not even the ex-
cuse of necessity. The schism is made by
, those who force the choice between q shame
full silence or protest against wrong. In
such considerations originated the Cleve-
land Convention. 1t was among its OBJ
iects to arouse the attention of the people
to such facts, and to bring them to realize
that while we are saturating southern soil
with the best blood of the country in the
name of liberty, We have really parted with
it at home.
II To-day we have in the country the abus
es of a military dictation without its unity
of action and vigor of execution. An ad
ministration marked at home by disregard
of constitutional rights, by it's violation Of
personal liberty and the liberty Of the
press, and, as . GROWING shame, by ito
abandonment of the right of asylum, q
right especially dear to all free nations
| abroad, it's course has been characterized
by feebleness and want of principle that
has misled European powers and driven
them to belief that only commercial in
terests and personal aims are concerned, and
that no great principles are involved in the
. issue. The admirable conduct of the peo,
pie. their readiness to make every sacrifice
demanded of them, their forbearance and
silence under the suspension of everything
that could be suspended, their many acts OIL
heroism, were all rendered fruitless by the
incapacity, or to speak more exactly by tht
) personal ends for sohich the aoar was npanag
ed. This incapacity and sel6shness pro.
duced such results as led European powers
to the conviction that the North, with its
superior population, its immense resources,
and it's credit, will never be able to coerce
, the South. Sympathies which should have
3 been with us from the outset of this wal
I were turned against us, and in this way the
, admin stration has done the country dou,
BILE wrong abroad 1t created hostility, or
at best indifference, among those who would
r have been its friends if the real intentions
. of the people could have been better known,
while at the same time it neglected no &C.
casion for making the most humiliating com
cessions.
/ Against this disastrous condition of Of.
fairs the Cleveland Convention was pro-
test.
The principles which form the basis Of it's
platform have my unqualified and cordial
appreciation, but cannot so heartily con
cur in all the measures which you propose.
do not belieos that confscatioa, extended to
; the property of all rebels, IS practicable; and
if it were so, do not think it measure of
sound policy. 1t is, in fact, a question be-
longing to the people themselves to decide,
and is proper occasion for the exercise Of
their original and sovereign authority. As
a war measure in the beginning OF revolt
which might be quclled by prompt severity,
| understand the policy Of Confscation !;
but not as final measure Of reconstruc-
ton after the suppression of an insurrec'
! ton.
In the adjustments which are to follow
| of
consistently be admitted.
The object of the war is to make perma
nently secure the peace and happiness of
the whole country, and there was but sin
gle element in the way of its attainment
This element of slaoery may be considered
practically destroyed in the country, and it
needs only your proposed amendment of
the Constitution to make its extinction
complete.
with this extinction of slavery the party