The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-08
The National Convention.

Sundry suggestions have been made
through the papers in regard to the
place of holding the next Republican
National Convention. Editors in
Chicago, indianapolis, Cincinnati,
Pittsburg, and st. Louis, claim that
each of these cities is most accessible,
and has already, or will abundantly
provide the most ample accommoda-
tions. But ell of these evidently
speak upon interested motives. They
desire their respective cities to realize
the profits and the notoriety resulting
from the Convention, and what ting
say will therefore have little influence
in deciding the question It must be
determined by those who have no
such motives or interests.
Chicago we take to be out of the list
entirely. Our National Convention
was held at that city in 1860. And
the . Peace Democracy" In 1864 pro-
claimed their infamy from that city.
We shall no doubt hold our next one
elsewhere For several reasons we
vote in favor of ST. Louis. Missouri
! is a Republican State. It was the
first slave State to be thoroughly re-
! generated. 1t has proved its fidelity
through trials and dangers. greater
and more general than any other loyal
State experienced. There was civil
war 10 Missouri IN its intensest form,
and its loyal citizensicame out of their
fierce struggle for life. having achiov-
ed success and crowned with honor.
They have ever since maintained their.
fidelity with zeal and courage. They
have not only been true, but. have
been SO amid greater dangers than
other people of the loyal States have
encountered.
And St. Louis has also been a.
thoroughly loyal city, and still re-
mains such Thanks to the sturdy
patriotism of its German population,
ST Louis loyalty to the Union has be-
come a household word everywhere
throughout the land. These are facts,
and deserve such general recognition
as the holding of our convention there
would give it.
St. Louis, too, is on the west bank
of the Mississippi river, it is in the
Louisiana purchase, it is west of the
original limits of the Union, it is in
the center of the new and regenerated
Union the Union in which slavery
has been rooted out, and with liberty
made UNIVERSAL; it is the seat of the
first great contest about slavery, and
is itself the great monument to the
absolute freedom of all races in our
midst. We therefore indorse the
proposition to meet In st. Louis.
We think it is fitting our first
National Conven ton to nomin-
ate the first President of a re-
generated nationality should be
held at a city where cluster so
many memories and so important
links in the history Of the past, and
where so much promise for the fu-
ture abounds. We would nominate
our candidate on soil which, in 1860 |
was defled by Slavery, but which has
since been censecrated to liberty, and |
which was first to be so consecrated !
mainly through the efforts of its own
cltizenss We would mark the event |
as an epoch, both of our wonderful /
growth and our late return to the !
principles of republicanism. The con-
vention should meet at St.sLouis, be- !
cause no other city is itself the monu-
ment of such events.
It. Louis is quite as accessible as
any other city Of the West. The diff
States is not worthy of consideration.
And that very distance is an argu-
ment in favor of the selection. It
will do the Eastern delegates good to
get as far West as possible. 1t will /
serve to impress upon them better
idea of the vastness of the country, |
and, our westerns growth, importance
and proper influence. 1t will enlarge
their ideas somewhat, and that en-
largement will have a good effect up
on their action. When they have |
travelled through our fertile, popu-
lous and prosperous central States
to the west bank of the Mississippi. |
they will begin to comprehend |
that they are acting for a great peo-
pie, and. he better prepared to act |
wisely and periodically for the good |
of the whole. They will lose some of /
their mere local feeling and preju-
dice, and realize what a vast world l
there is beyond the Limited sphere
men are so prone to Imagine includes |
and should govern ALL
These are some of the reasons why /
we prefer St Louis to any city thar
-has bcen named They are such as
cannot e. offered In favor Of any 9th
er, and, toour mind, they overbalance
any that c o be presented in f.vor of I
others We trust st. Louis will he 4
selected, and we will guarantee that z
the Republics of that city will prove I
that the choice was a wise one by +
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