Show what is th the object while the result of the cleveland convention if anything so wanting in all the elements of authority ought to be dignified with aach a name takes no one by surprise it having long been a foregone conclusion in the minds of the class of men whose it names ames figgie in its its proceedings that president lincoln must mlis t bo be defeated at any rate and by what means still it is painful to see sec that incorruptible honesty unswerving patriotism pati and we will venture to add a degree of success under most discouraging circumstances which but few men in his position could have compassed should all be so powerless powe iless to weaken the hostility and malignant hatred of a certain cei tain class of hotheaded hot headed fanatics in our wida midst now every member of that convention knows full well now cowand and know knew then that their candidate announced can never be elected tile the signs of the will of the people are too clear to 0 be for one instant mistaken and if anything were wanting manting to manifest what the result of in an election must be it would be found in the almost unanimous action lately published in our telegraphic columns of neaily all the legislatures of the various states by which president Pies pi ident lincoln was proclaimed the alia choice of the people for the presidency even the cumbrous and method of electing by an electo ial lotegand i lote etc otc and not by direct voice of the people poo PIC will ill not suffice to put any other candidate than lincoln into the presidential chair while to talk of the possibility of electing fremont I 1 well ell known and fully fathomed ns as he be is by a last 1 ast minority mijo rity of the people is most unmitigated trash and every sensible man knows it to be ao 0 but it may be said shrewd men were in attendance at that convention and they ther would not have lent their aid to anything that did not offer a prospect of success true trite we grant to a extent but what is the lind kind of success they aim at what is the object in view and ahat A hat good result do these men individually expect to reap from the issue we answer that a large number of the same men who hao baic aiom the very beginning been the firebrands fire brands of the senate the house use of representatives the forum and the political meeting finding it impossible to indoctrinate the with their wild theorizing theoti zing in politics and that he has more regard for his oath of office than for their peculiar phase of monomania that may be are determined to leave no stone unturned to oust him while to thebe there are added as allies all those of doubtful patriotism shaky loyalty and unstable political faith who by their previous manifestations of just those these qualities are quite convinced that while lincoln remains it at the head bead of affairs theio cheicis the icis is no show for them in the scramble for office and that in his distribution of tile the loaves and fishes no crumbs will iemann for them the gist class wish a man mail imbued with their theoretic delusions in politics the second any change whatsoever since chango change must give them tile in a show bhoj for office which at present they cannot hav bale e and the tv to 0 classes have united upon fremont in this convention not with any definite deli nite idea of carrying his election ele action but with the certainty that they are likely to divide the strength of the union men and that then 4 among among hands bands something some thim favorable to them sell es cs may turn up 1 which aich something in this case means anything ally thin that might defeat president lincoln this is their object and it is fit that the people should buik mal k the movement knowing full fill well uell that no such stich blow could possibly becal us its in our present conflict with rebellion as would be tho the loss of prestige to the union cause inflicted by an election which should carry oven even by implication to the minds of the I 1 ebels of the confederacy any idea of a wavering in the support accorded by the loyal masses to the previous arid and present policy of this administration and while wo we have no fears of trie tile result wo we warn the people fully and fairly of the nature of tile the evil work in which aich 1 these men openly and their supporters secretly have auvo been beca and aro now on engaged |