Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-05-08
From the ton Ledger, April u.
acknowledgements Explanation Of his
Action ia the New York Convention.


A mistake in Judgment by Mr.. Nalland-
ingham caused the defeat OF Chase. There
was one hour in which, if Nallandingham
had not done anything Chase would have
been nominated. Seymours declination.
after he had been nominated by McCook,
WAS made in good faith, and would have
been received Us final had he had not been
overpowered by Vallandinghams furious
declaration that the public safety demand
ed the nomination of Horatio Seymour
If Seymour had not been nominated just
then the nomination of Chase would have
taken place within an hour.
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According TO onr information the facts
arc exactly the reverse of all this. Within
much less than zone hour" bad "Valland-
ingham not done anything" another man
than Chase would have been nominated
There may have been-no doubt was-an
unfortunate error of necessity; but there
was no mistake in Judgment. Certainly
Seymour declined the nomination in good
faith he was sincerely for Chase, and had
he pos sessed the presence Of mind and
boldness to have anticipated '-Vallanding-
hams furious declarations" so-ca]lel (of
which We had just had previous notice, J
| by concluding his speech with the suggest
| ing of Chase, VaIlandingham would have
been silent; similar scene would have fol-
lowed, Chase have been nominated, and
President to-day, and the Democratic
party, with its bold, brave men at the
front. in power. After the multiplied
treacheries and stupidities of the Demo
cratic managers from October, 1867, to
July, 1868, there was but one thing which
could and would have commanded success
the nomination of Salmon P. Chase,
who, unlike Andrew johnson, had brains
enough to comprehend that if he was to
overpower the strong-minde6, strong
willed audacity of the "Copperheads'' of
the Democratic party. He was not nomi-
mated; wherefore and by reason of the pre-
misses, Grant and his relatives now hold
place, if not power; while Seymour crops
his hay, milks his COWS and churns his
butter near 'pent up Utiea;" Blair, in
silent retirement, no longer even a rail
road director. chews the cud Of sweet
and bitter fancies over Grants profound
ly hidden capacity to develop himself into
an American Caesar, cleaving to the White
House till carried thence corpse; Pendle-
ton from the heights of 'Bowler Place."
calmy surveys, with musing eye, the green
backed slopes and pastures of the valleys
Mill Creek and the Licking; Mclean
creates pleasant parks along the Roman
nosed de clivities of Deer Creek; while Val
landingham, no longer concerned about
that ''great hereafter" whose slow paced
movements he has delivered over to
history, contentedly hurls his furious de-
clarations at courts and juries IN the vi
cinage of Burnside's raid, vindicating the
rights and redressing the wrongs of those
venerable gentlemen of ancient family and
renown, John Doe and Richard Roe-the
aforesaid Seymour, Blair, Pendleton. Nc
Lean and Vallandigham, with divers others
'to the grand jurors unknown" being all
sweetly oblivious to the fact that New
York Convention was ever assembled and
each consoling himself with the heavenly
reflection that
"When wicked men bear sway,
The post Of honor is a private station"
This consolatory reflection is as essen.
tial as it is gratifying for no party that
has the audacity to elect Carl Schurz to
the S nate can ever be beaten by party
which stones its prophets and rejects its
martyrs,