The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-30


oentlwas completed with q peculiar fervo,
ana force. It would have been made yester.
suay Il 1t had not been necessary to observe
certain prophecies. A hundred aspirants
were eager to claim the floor to initiate the
nouinallon. The Soldiers and Sailors Con
seheion laid their endorsement upon the
eanie yesterday afternoon, and an attempt
was then made to ratify it; and when at
,ass uhoer the wise pilotship of General
nawiey, President of the Convention. the
honor OF lnaugurating the nomination was
assigned to General Logan, the manner in
Mnlcn ne performed his duty proved at once
the wisdom of the delay aud the sagacity of
Seheral' Hawley's selection. The only
dramatic effect I have seen in Chicago
pertaining to the Republican convention
was when General Logan's motion WAS car
REQ. The rear of the large stage of Crosby's
opera House was hung in deep festoons of
tue American flag, and the moment General
Logan's motion prevailed these were slowly
upii1ted, disclosing beautiful picture, with
the White House in the distance and two
Pedestals IN front, upon one of which was
inscribed the democratic nominee for
PRESIDENT in 1863" and the other occupied
ny General Grant clasping the genius of
Liberty by the hand, and over all the two
words, Match him." the figure pointing
to the vacant Democratic pedestal. The
effect, electrical as it was, was increased by
the loosening of beautiful dove, painted
IN red, white, and blue, which gracefully
sailed around the tiers of the vast building
and finally returned to its resting place
the emblem of perfect Union triumph, and
as perpetual Union of peace. Then mag
nifcent band struck up first "Hail to the
Chief and afterward Rally Round the
Eiag, the whole audience o infrsg III the
cAoTus, amidst repeated applause and wav-
Ang OF hapdkerchiefs. The speeches of the
fchairmen of the different State delegations
as these were called, ratifying the nomina-
~tlon of General Grant, are in themselves
notices for successful Presidential cam
palgnE>some of then, poetic, many unique
and al OF them expressive.
General Grants unanimous nomination,
responsive to a universal demand, made the
Vice Presidential contest most interesting
In other days the selection of the second
officer of the Republic was mere ceremony.
and he who sat in the Senate was regarded
as a pageant or a fiction; but General
Grants conceded claim to the gratitude of
his countrymen, and Andrew Johnsons con-
coded infamy, conspired to make it unusually
important that the second officer of the Gov
eminent should always be equal to occupy
the position of the first, Hence the intensi-
ty of the struggle for that office.
A thousand pens will describe the scene
that ensued. Suffice it to say that every
candidate was tittingly championed. No
one will have right to complain of his
friends. Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania,
though assaulted and traduced by men who.
if they had rallied to his support, would
have certainly made him the most prominent
of those put forward, may we'll point with
pride to the manner in which his delegation
adhered to him. may seek another occa-
sion to refer to the influences which have
dwarfed and which must continue to dwarf
the great State of Pennsylvania in these
quadrennial conversations. If we were not
able to carry him, however, we at least pre-
vented the triumph of his enemies. Nothing
ever surpassed the devotion of the friends of
Wilson of Massachusetts,, Wade of Ohio,
Colfax of Indiana, and Fenton of New York
1t is an historical, as it has become
philosophical fact, that if Wade had been as
sure of being the immediate successor of
Andrew johnson as Ulysses s. Grant is of
becoming the ultimate successor, his selection
would have been easily and early accomplish
ed. General Wilson was enthusiastically and
steadily sustained by the most of the New
England delegations and large body of the
men, and Governor Fenton had the
advantage of a close, compact, and we'll Or
ganized party from his own State, which
made rapid prnselytes; but Schuyler Colfax
soon became an object of general inter est
His friends were not among the loud parti-
sans. They made no noise and excited no
Like their candidate, they were
pleasant, agreeable, and interchangeable. They
seemed to wait for the moment when his ri
walls might exhaust themselves upon each
other; and that moment came after the third
ballot, when, upon the withdrawal of Gov.
Curtin, Pennsylvania took the initiative. and
after a decisive vote for gallant Ben. Wade,
threw solid unit for the Speaker of the
House, and so scaled his triumph.
And that the success of his nomination
will he followed by the success of his cleo
ton, no one who peruses the open volume
of this wonderful Western sentiment can
doubt. l hope have not been carried away
by all have seen in this the palpipating heart
Of our grand American Republic; but no
one who visits here, and studies the charac |
tcristics of this people, and secs that they |
are committed by their interests, their IN
stincts, and their convictions to the Repub-
ican party, can question that the candidates
who secure their confidence will also carry |
the votes of other sections. The name of
Colfax silences objections, extinguishes ri |
valries, consoIidates factions, and organizes |
victory The pledges of tine delegates 1t is
very easy to perceive, in the enthusiasm of
these shouting and surrounding multitudes,
are certain of realization. One of the strong
Copperhead hopes has been to seduce the
West with Pentlleton and reputation but
the name Of Colfax dispels any such sinister
and when to this assurance is
added the plain fact that the South is ready
% contribute to the increased majoritics OF
Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Missouri, MINES
,ta. Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana, we of the
Middle States, without counting New York
md New Jersey, have enoug h electoral votes
o dispel all loyal spprehensions. There is
something magnetic in the new candidate
or Vice-President. Stern in his fidelity to
MS party, early and earnest in the express
on of his convictions, and always on the
,icket line of thought and action-a nat
lral leader, because an educated newspaper
nan-he is girded around with the fortunate
AGILITY of being favorite with his friends,
md an object of respect to his enemies.
There is nothing in his character to invite
,ttack or to attract criticism.
A moral rectitude without stain, political
consistency without flaw, public and a
private department without suspicion. his
q a rounded character, without salient
POINTS. And when these are added to the
attributes of the severe, straightforward,
md simple minded soldier who heads the