Year: 1864

MONT.-The Radical Democracy held their
Convention at Cleveland, Ohio, as per an
nouncement, adopted platform and nomina-
ted John G. Fremont as their choice for
the next President and John Cochran of
N. Y. for Vice President The platform,
as will be seen by referring to the eastern
news in another part of our paper, has sew
eral clauses which smack more or less of de-
mocracy. 1t is platform which will unite
the radicals of the Ben Butler school of pol
itics (who love to style themselves Demo-
crats) and the more conservative Wendell
Phillips Abolitionists. The Phillips faction
are the more conservative, because they are
willing to make compromise with the
South whenever the "tOp root of slavery is
cut" and when American citizens of African
descent are admitted toperfect equality with
the inferior white citizens. When this is
accomplished they will just IS leave have a
Republican form of Government as a Mon
archy They will not be particular about
the management of the Government if
Cufy shall get his "rights" The Ben
Butler wing embraces the anarchists, the
monarchists, the Jacobins, the plunderers
and despoilers Of every grade and hue. They
90 in for general con6scation, destruction
and blood no compromise with traitors as
long as there is any spoils to satiate their
gluttOnous appetites for gain. The Phillips
wing Of the party is by all odds the most
humane and least Objectionable of the two
The party, as a whole, care nothing about
the Constitution of the United States ex-
cept to advocate those clauses which will
protect them from personal danger in the
North The party will be valuable auxil-
larry to the true Democracy for the reason
that they are in favor of free speech and
free press, and opposed to the suspension Of
the haJeas corpus writ in loyal States They
will oppose military interference with cleo
tions, and as the abolitionists can talk louder
and longer than any other class of men they
will, in connection with the National De
mocracy, be able to secure an impartial ex-
preston of opinion in the Presidential con-
test at the ballot box. With the bold and
radical Fremont as their standard bearer, the
abolitionists bid fair to poll at least half the
votes at the Presidential election that have
heretofore been cast as unit with the Re
publican party.


Mr.. Lincoln's Convention, which meets
at Baltimore, cooked and primed, can do
nothing else than nominate Uncle Abe for
President, as the delegates, almost to man,
go pledged to effect that end. 1t is certain
that Mr. Lincoln will be the nominee; but
what the tenor of the platform will be is not
yet foreshadowod Fremont has always Ia
ken the lead of Lincoln in emancipation
negroisms, although the latter has followed
up slowly to the same stand-points. 'Free-
dom" has been the cry which animated the
entire Union party since the commencement
of the war, and as Fremont has been the
acknowledged leader and freedom-shrieker
he will head off the old joker on that plank
The Lincoln party cannot come the "conser-
vative" dodge for they once occupied that
ground in the beginning of the war and de-
serted it for radicalism and almost all other


sms, and consequently if they should again
take a conservative stand no one would be-
lieve that the policy would be adhered to
for any length of time. 1t looks as if Mr.
Lincoln will, by the force Of circumstances,
be compelled to fall back upon "centraliza-
ton" and his favorite hobby of military
necessity" for platform. Upon the broad
| (though not remarkably liberaD ground of
military necessity Mr. Lincoln might stand
chance to gain the Presidency, but upon
a political platform and by the sufrages of
the people he would certainly be beaten.