The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-07-03

lion at Chicago, which nominated Mcclellan
and Pendleton
" l must go out oft tomorrow even
ing and>cannot attend the meeting at your
house. Allow me to say a word Mr. Lin
coin is already beaten. He cannot be cleo
ted And we must have another ticket TO
save us from utter overthrow. If we had
such a ticket as could be made by naming
Grant, Butler or Sherman for President, and
Farragut as Vice. we could make tightly yet
And such ticket we ought 10 have anyhow,
with or without convention.
LIHcoLN's NOMINATION SUICIDAL.
Not less emphatic was the response of
Lucius Robinson, dated August -. He
wrote:
Iapprehend that it is too late to prevent
the impending evil. In my Judgment Nc
Clellan will inevitably be the next President
unless Lincoln and johnson are at once with
drawn and General Grant or General Dix.
with strong and popular candidate for Vice
President, nominated in their places As
do not suppose that this can or will be done
l have not deemed it of any use to sign the
proposed call. The action at Baltimore on
the eth ofJune was the most stupid political
suicide that have ever known. 1t might
and should have been prevented. | do not
see how the dead can be raised
HENRY WINTER DAVIS ATTITUDE.
Henry Winter Davis was one of the most
vehement advocates of the scheme to substi-
IL. e
johnson, which he believed was doomed TO
certain defeat. He was particularly active
in distributing the cali for another conven-
ton, and under date of August p, only
week before the Democratic convention, he
wrote as follows:
MY letters from Maryland say Lincoln
can do nothing there, even where the Union
party is most vigorous, and everybody is
looking for a new candidate from some
where.
Il have letter from Wade. who is sam
guine, but he is W tn us of opinion that after
Chicago has spoken is the time to act-till
then cautian and preparation. ! am almost
IN despair at the loss of time occasioned by
4
| have done the best could. ask
ed Hickman to sound Cameron and Curtin
in Pennsylvania. think we have pretty
good start in New Y,rk and the n. +. States
Pa, Del, and Ohio and Michigan. If a
break be made there, il compels Lincoln's
surrender.
! DEACON SMITH AGAINST LINCOLN.
Richard Smith, the editor of the Cincin-
natl GG-aette, gave the movement his en-
| thusiastic adhesion, as the following extract
from letter dated August % shows:
The people regard Mr.. Lincoln's candi-
dacy as a misfortune. His apparent strength
when nominated was fictitious, and now the
fiction has disappeared, and instead of conf
dence there is distrust l do not know a
Lincoln man, and in all our correspondence,
which is large and varied, | have seen few
letters from Lincoln men. The thinking
people will vote for lrim, but not because
they like the candidate, but for the sake of
the cause. There il, therefore, of course, no
enthusiasm, and without this it is up hill
work in canvass. The Withdrawal of Lin
coin and Frem )nt and the nomination of a
man that would inspire confidence and in
fuse life into our ranks, would be hailed
with general delight"
REID AFRAID OF LITTLE MAG
Whitelaw Reid, who was then employed
on the Cincinnati Gazette, wrote the follow
ing on September 3 even after the fall of At
lanta and the Democratic Peace platform.
THAT which could do in the direction
you indicate has been done in inducing the
Gazette to come ont for Mr.. Lincoln's with
drawal. The article has been telegraphed
East, and hope has done some good. | will
be in Baltimore in few days. and will ex-
plain to Sir. Davis more fully than can do
now the difficulties that embarrass any
valuable action. We think Mcclellan and
Pendleton very strong ticket, and fear the
result
CHARLES SUMMERS VIEWS.
1T is clear that all who love their coun-
try, and wish to see it free, must act togeth-
er. There must be no division, To this end
we must all be ready to make sacrifices. 1t
may be that Mr.. L. will see that we shall all
be stronger and more united under another
candidate But if he does not see it 50, our
duty is none the less clear to unite in the
opposition TO the common enemy"
THE BOTTOM DROPS OUT.
Favorable replies were also received from
Amasa Walker, John Jay, C. Il. Sedgwick
and several others, all of whom expressed
their sense of the gravity of the situation
ID. S. Di ,kinson W o that viii ! e favored
the scheme he was restrained from signing
the call because his name had been canvass
ed for the Vice Presidential nomination.
Salmon p. Chase wrote that his views were
not very clear, though he admitted that the
time was one calling for wise counsel and
fearless action by patriotic men. Roscoe
Conkling opposed the scheme from the out
set, as did also j Collamer. J. S. Prettyman
would have been glad to see Lincoln voun-
tariIy withdraw, but was opposed to forcing
HIM from the ticket. This was the view of
numbers of Others quoted in this correspon-
| dence.
The capture OF Atlanta, and subsequent
Union success, supplemented by the decla-
ration of the Chicago Convention, caused
the bottom TO drop out of the whole move
ment.