Year: 1868

THE Pendleton faction of the Copper
head party tried to secure an earlier meet
ing of the National Convention than the
Fourth of July, but signally failed. Bel
mont, his implacable enemy, refused to
take any steps toward a change of time.
The explanation of this is that the opposi-
ton has not yet decided upon a candidate
The drift of public sentiment is toward
Hancock, but the "pins" for him have not
all been set. 1t is the hope of the Bel
mont-Seymour faction that by the Fourth
of July the anti-Pendleton forces will be
fully organized, and ablet to successfully OPP
pose the repudiationists.


In the meanwhile, the factions continue
their cat-and-dog fight. The Times of this
morning deyotes, as usual, column to
Pendleton, ringing the changes on the i'm
practicability of any scheme to win over
Republican votes by the nomination of a
military candidate. The Dayton Ledger,
now edited by Vallandigham, is a laborer in
the same cause Its language is more pro-
nounced, but its purport the same. We
give one paragraph to show the real aim
and spirit of the Pendletonians


''Of one thing. in our deliberative judgment
and deep conviction, all concerned may rest as
sured; and, therefore, Eastern conservatives





may take notice of it and govern themselves ac-
cordingy. No platform or candidate will or can
carry Ohio, or any Western or Border State, that
is committed, openly or tacitly, to the proscrip-
tion of the sagacious gallant and truly patriotic
men who refused to support the late civil war,
with all its evil and bitter fruit accommodating
every day. Let the Captain Cuttles of War De-
mocracy and Conservatism make anote of it If
the New York Herald proposes to support the
nominees of the 4th of July Convention, and ex-
poets victory it may as well cease its clamor about





hands with the Copperheads at once. On that
issue it cannot force Farragut nor any other intes-
can the New York World Upon this question
there can be but one condition of united effort
and successful fight, whether with a civilian who
Seymour, or a brave soldier who found himself in
the war and honestly fought. as he supposed, for
the Union. like Hancock and Buell-and that is
all who belong to and support the Democratic
party and its candidates, COMPREHENSIVE con-
stitute both the vital and the numerical strength
OF the party; especially in the West-wil have this
or they will have nothing"


The more of this kind Of plain talk we
have, the better Here we have the Ledger,
published in Pendleton's own State, ac-
knowledging that he opposed the war,
while the Times has the effrontery to in
sist that in Congress he "steadily support
ed the war" 1t is well known to all who
know anything about it that the Ledger is
right Mr. Pendleton would have taken
it as an insult four years ago to have been
claimed as War Democrat. With the old
Hebrew warrior, he would have indig-
nantly replied, "Is thy servant dog that
he should do this thing?" His record is
too notorious to be concealed. He was a
Copperhead of the most malignant type
and from this fact there is no escape II
the nominee of his party, he will revive
and center upon himself all the odium OF
copperheadism.-C Chicago Ecening Journal