Show OPENING OP OF THE CAMPAIGN As we may b be ray dreo breo by opportunity r we purpose to f ri before our oar oil readers the opinions of we varied schocia as of politicians opticians in the north on the candidates for the next Fresi presidency dency there neen nean ceyer neer was a time lime in the nations history wah rufen the thil american people 54 bad a more obliga obligation tio n to dascha discharge rge than that nobes bea before gre cre them at the election in november next before that time there wil be an immense amount of pipe laying 0 and wire puring 0 for particular candidates and as each gentleman is trotted out for public adra adin ration the nation will hav hai e terribly changed i it tt tte tto 0 sketches of men and their politics are not of rival with the news from the seat feat of war from late eastern papers we it otice the pio pro proposed posed election reelection re of mr lincoln is the subject of gheral interest A formidable army of comfortable ins are eloquent in bis his pra praise praises isee and a greater bost best of 0 hungry 1 outs outa are clamor clamerus cla cia morus for other candidates the new york tribune that has always been cedi edited credited ted with having elected mr air li coln coin to hea big bi a pres nt unpleasant hono honors lii rii takes an early start in in opposition to his reelection election re ald abd and d discourses is in this wise we propose b here ere to consider cons iier lier briefly the main reasons urged in the state resolves and letters herewith bere here with given for ter re nominating mr LINCOLN they will be lound substantially as follows 1 I mr lincon linco n har hat ia well discharged the cespon t acs ics of his exalted station I 1 this is true we are among those who wo led ked bard to elect mr lincoln and we are with the manner in which his public duties dulles have been discharged Hs he has been patriotic honest and faithful ile he has done nil nia utmost to serve and save saie the country I 1 true he has sometimes erred cried in judgment and made m mistakes stakes who has not nol lie ile la is not infallible n not nov ot a genius not one of those rare great greaf men mert who mould their age into the similitude of their own high character cassise abilities and lofty aims but considering his bia antecedents a d his experience of public affairs consid considering consi dring ring ling that few or none of us anticipated he the terrible tir tr war which abich he be has been compelled to wa wae wale wage 11 c and the treasonable fa factiousness which has confronted and resisted him even in the loyal states we are i siire onre the verdict of history in his case wll wil be well done good and faithful berv antl anti the luster ot bis his many good deeds will far out livet livette be memory of bis mistakes and faults to this extent then we agree with mith the legia legis 1 latureo and conventions that have presented him as their favorite for reelection re election if lie it is the first choicer chofre choice for the next denzial term gfa oga olf a large majority of ilose those iho tao idue have thus thug yar far supported his hit and the war we consider this also quite true atwould It would woula ba be strange indeed it he were i ot in the fearful ordeal through which we hav have e passed his eis place has necessarily and uniformly been fust first in the thoughts of the bryal millions his name first after gods in heir their praye prayers is to bay aay that knowin knowing far more they more of 0 and ana anatel tei fei feel tel a warmer attachment to him than to any other living man attis 1 ia is only oaly saying that he be has not proved an utter dib dis and failure bus but ye vye dissent altogether from he the deduction tion ilon that mr air LI lt coin coin coln ought to be because the loyal masses not having begun seriously to think of the prospective P aiesi esi dennial contest bavo have not yet fixed upon some one ene elbe eibe else to succeed him in his high position and aia we consider the signatures sigra tures of members of L gisla turea to letters to the president commending 6 his hig official course and asking him to run tun ag again aln ain aa a but decisive indications ns ot at an unbiased choice no doubt a 4 great majority of those who to gether netiler triumphed as unionists in the state elections or of 1863 if required to vote for president derit tomorrow to morrow would vote farmr for mr lin cai whey they wol wo woi id dhave have no no fair opportunity to make another choice but so the he great body of the federalists of undoubted undoubtedly adly preferred john jotin adams tr fr t r 3 et run ning ding him defeated and broke down their had they supported john jay they would have triumphed and had bad ve before arre trie them long years of power and use useful wl neds nesa 1 eci Soa a great maju majority rity ot of the nati nal republican of 1828 preferred john quincy adams fr f r a secor secord d te temi tami ml but they were beaten with hm him nevertheless more disastrously than they could have bave been had be given givin place to ilg henry ri clay so martin van buren was wa the undoubted first filst choice cf of the it bodinof the in 1810 18 1510 10 while gea 11 aribon arrison was not the first clice ch olce oice of ti tile tila J e whigs yet harrison beat van buren more 0 than clay could have done the party that gratified its ila preference was routed rou teo tei the party that sacrificed its is preference was sweep invy loVy triumphant and BO so in the elect elections lons ions respectively of polk and pierce but we need not pursue these illustrations III HI it has bee beeb n settled we think well weil ell eil ee settled by iby the deliberate acion action of both polita political cal cai parties that a president erit ir it office ia is notto not to be reelected re elected unless under the pressure of extraordinary circumstances s it was for over forty years the general rule lule to elect for a second term for the ladt thirty years no prisident president has an amendment of tai tb e king d a president iu in eligible fora for a second term has hab has been often arged rg edae we think not widely better betten leave tace waltter where here it is is in in the hands of the people i they will at long intervals interval decide that a necessity for election reelection re exists when none such is obvious and pressing they will decline to reelect re elect we do not see how cow this could be I 1 improved 1 the practical question then is is thie this has hir bir MT air lincoln proved BO so transcendently able and admirable a president that all consideration of the merits abilities and berv bert services ices of 0 bers hers should be postponed or forborne in favor of hla hia election reelection re this is a question whereon pending the definitive selection cf I 1 our candidates there should be the utmost freedom of opinion and expression we answer it in the negative heartily agreeing i taht air lincoln has done well we do not regard it as at all demonstrated that gov chase gen tremont fremont gen butler or gen grant cannot do as well we freely admit mr Lincol nd ns merits but we insist that they are not such guch as to eclipse and abd obscure those of all the statesmen and soldiers who have aided in the great work of saving the country from d eruption and overthrow and if others have done as well in in their respective Bp spheres heres then we hold hod hoa boa that the geneua at 0 our institutions the salutary one term principle winch has been established by the concurrence of each of cur great parties and by the action of the people overruling over ruling either in i turn counsels the choice of another from among our eminent unionists for president from froin and after aftel march 4 1865 such are our convictions we place them before our readers in company with those of the legislatures and conventions which have indicated an opposition conclusion at aid d ask that jud meat be rendered in accord with the pre preponderance pond erance arance not of authority but of reasons california politicians are lectured in another style by the tie san francisco bulletin Bulle dulle tm secretary chase declines to be coni considered dered a candidate for the pie this alpar eltiy leaves the fild clear for mr lincoln for the times have p produced pod no man of such towering 0 fitness to command our armies or i shape our po icy that the public sentiment spontaneously calls caus anra lim fouth forth to take lake the place which mr air lincoln bab baa filled so much mma tetter better than his best friends anticipated there was a tama when N P banks was spoken of as a very natural candidate but his tua popularity has hag not enjoyed the vigorous grow grobb b that was expected of it lt ile he has done well whatever has been entrusted to him alid and it is not too late yet for the breliant success of his bis texas expedition to bring him aromi j bently out and set him anthe on the biro birn seat of candidates G ant seems a good deal farther off from tt tte e position of 0 a prom sing candidate than lie he d d a month ago making him lieutenant general has laid the abe responsibility of the conduct of the war upon bib bis aboul shoulders dere ani and devolved on him that most moat fearful of all undertakings the creditable handling of the army of the potomac anything short of the most illustrious success during daring the spring campaign n puts an alp arp in his path to the i white house nothing abates the spice of i butlers orders or detracts from the pungency 1 j sot of his bis letters but every week that he stays at i fortress monroe and leaves R camond the quiet capital of at the confederacy lessens the formidableness of his competition fremont is laid away on so high a shelf that one feels indisposed dh posed poseA to apologize apologise apol ahot ogise for naming bira hira in in this i connection saward seward who four tout years ago was wag the choice of california and so heat hwat heartily vily tily her choice that the guns which thundered outtie out abe salute over the nomination of lincoln seemed I 1 to desecrate the hills that sullenly robed their i echoes back is by common conse consent tit including no doubt bis his owa own quite unnamed for the tie I 1 position now lincoln al ne stands up prominent and preferred the compromise between 1 rad had and conservatism satis satia 1 i facto y to that prime abolitionist william 1 i loyd lloyd garrison and equally so to that con serva tive ex oricio montgomery blair the man ot of the times original ee centric eccentric reliable i righteous the sin tin nt of the averaged american people it looks now as if no other I 1 I 1 man could possibly grow grov fast enough to overtake I 1 him I 1 I 1 in ili iii the affections of the people or seem to their cool ripe judgment BO so fit to occupy py for four tour years tb th chief executive chair ICU the new york independent henry ward I 1 becchers beechers Be echers caper feeling seriously the great questions v which must occupy the urain brain for forthe the next four years calls for a new man nan but having no idea where to fiad fidd him invites hla hia co religionists to look 1002 out and do some watching and prating praying between this and the election whether intended to stimulate the faithful in in the earnestness of their calls or to f frighten 1 I ahten away incapable candi I 1 I 1 dates or a litte lift I 1 e both ways is not stated but 11 W B presents a busy time in store thus tha TI the he next Adminis administration ifft if it shill begin under bace ea ce will have its bands hands more full of various labors than under a continued war government has a cohesive power during war greater than during t peace A notional nit ional lonal peril I 1 such aa as the american revolution or the present rebellion consolidates all ail al lloyal interests 9 fusing all ali mens minds minda into a si single rille purpose and comp compaction the tha governa government tinto into a terrible ll 11 strength lut iut but peace with its diversity of inte interests r eats dividing ard ar d eca ter lenng in copular bym sym athy the boien ing cower ic will be a harder task to unite parties under the next administration than it has been UP UG der this it vw ivill require a finer statesmanship to conduct the nex next administration than it has this thia great hrvat otate statesmen ain aln are few in arly eny col cou try like great poets but few as they are we must make diligent search to find one for the next presidency what a complication of problems will tha next four years bring nothing less than the establishment and security of human liberty the reconstruction of a broken republic the adjustment readjustment re of the rights of the scales and alid of the federal government the status of the negro and his conversion into a citizen the punishment of treason the re ownership of southern lands the mexican quantion the monroe doctrine duct the nit motional ional lonal finances finance the absorption of a disbanded soldiery back into citizen chip the fixing upon a standing army large eno enogh enoich gb to defend liberty and nt not large enough to menace it these and many other problems forseen and un unforeseen forseen are the unparalleled difficulties the next adminis meet and master so solemn becomes the question of at the national leadership that sober men may well ask even three short months in advance who a s sufficient for these things the man therefore who comes bearin bearid bearing in his hand credentials for the next pre presidency a ider lder cy must demonstrate aa as his first tol token en ot of fil fit foneta ness nesb a 1 sublime allegiance to god liberty and human rights a reverent mind heightened to the nobert no beat conception of the toe funch on of government menttie the grandeur of justice and the nobility I 1 of man the chief object of ot government stops short of nothing less than the uplifting of humanity I 1 and coleridge ought to be once more 1 alive to teach statesmen their forgotten functions A government like ours in which the general principles of equality Ii liberty berty and charity give spirit to the laws needs neels as its true administrators men of profound religious convictions men upon whose ghose hearts are graven the two tables of the law love to god and love to man A friend of ours lately came back from washington saying the treat creat lack there is of a positive faith in go 11 but I 1 m ahat hat fitness have men lacking such a faith to administer what ought lo 10 be a christian government no man is fit to stand at the head cf ef men icen who does not cot sit at the feet of go 1 the only ruler who rules sublimely is be is whose hose soul ig 13 touched of the holy ghost and who so borrows greatness from heaven thaes VT haila the ship hip of state S tate tosses on a rough sea the bells will soon ring a change of watch who ehab shau take the next turn at a the helm let him be the barest safest man han to steer in a astora stai star m i ibe rhe L e surest man nan to find the way wa yinto into luto port ani and safe anchorage give ua us the wisest head lead the stoutest arm the bravest and may god keep the hipp the boston statesman on the a subject says it is no longer doubtful that mr lincoln will be opposed by a portion of his hia own part pirt and the most radical portion at present this opposition among americans is working under ground by secret wire pulling and shows itself only here hero an I 1 there but among the radical germans it is fast a suming organization the idol of thib thia element t in missouri is senator gratz gnatz brown who it in 1 an elaborate address urged the pcs itin D that thab 16 ve we are the revolution and the germans who embrace the doctrine are atre marshalling themselves not only in missouri but in other states directly against mr lincoln reno initiation and tor for fremont thus thug the 1 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