Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-07-03
Democratic National Convention.

AS the time for the meeting OF the Demo-
cratic National Convention approaches, It's
deliberations are looked to with increasing
interest. There are some fifteen or more
distinguished gentlemen spoken of in con-
nection with the nomination for President,
but we are satisfied that four only Will go
into the Convention with much strength.
Mr.. PENDIEToN and Judge CHASE, of Ohio,
General HANCOCK, of Pennsylvania, and
Judge HENDRICKS, of Indiana, will each be
urged with ardent hopes upon the part of
their friends. Upon the presumption that
Mr.. PENDLEToN, who will have much the
largest vote in the earlier ballots, cannot
receive two thirds of the whole on account
of positive opposition in certain States to
his greenback payment of the public debt,
we still believe that the nomination fOf the
first place will lie between HANCOCK and
both names were on the ticket, with chances
rather in favor of the latter, as the Presi-
Dental candidate These are merely sur
misses, gathered more from the apparent
the opinions of others
It was at one time thought best that the
delegates from the Southern States should
take no active part in the deliberations of
the Convention, or in the ballots for can
didates. And we do not think yet that it
would be advisable for the South to unite
with a portion of the Northern States and
force nomination against the wishes of a
large minority, especially representing
Democratic States, but surely the South
is even more interested in the rescue of the
Government from the hands of the Jaco-
bins than is the North, while the distribu-
ton of the spoils can have no destinations.
We therefore believe that after full and
from the entire North, they are better pre-
pared to cast aside all personal preferences
and prejudices and support those candi
dates under whose banner victory is most
likely to be achieved. We believe that
such viii be their reception, and such CON
tiderce will be reposed in their judgments,
that the Southern delegates will be in
iuenced to act with that freedom aud indie
pendence which characterized the represen-
tatives of both sections in times gone by
The delegates from this section in the New
York Convention are among the ablest and
best citizens of our country, forming a
striking contrast with those to the Chicago
Convention, who were up, on each ballot,
to the highest bidder.
We suppose there will nothing transpire
in general political circles until the meet,
ing of the Convention. With the passage
Of the Omnibus bill, and the election by the
House of member of Congress from the
Ninth Kentucky Congressional District
over the Hon. JOHN 3. YOUNG, whom the
people had previously elected, the Congress
sional Jacobins have about exhausted the
entire supply of political capital on hand.
In the meantime, North Carolina and Geor-
gia State politics will increase in interest,
and public attention will be temporarily
Withdrawn from Washington and turned to
Raleigh and Atlanta. The political jay
hawks who will control these bayonet-sup-
ported governments will lead e. gay dance
for short time, but the people will rise in
their majesty, and at the ballot-box in
October and November, hurl them back to
their former insignifcance