| Show the nomination from all parts of the country the news reaches us that the people are delighted with the llie nomination re of president lincoln by the baltimore convention and that the name of andrew johnson of tennessee will prove no unworthy support ir if such were needed to the ticket of all real and genuine union men As to the nominee of the convention at cleveland to abuse is not N ft e have nothing say our forte and strong words would be necessary to characterize properly the course pursued by him when the circumstances of the country are taken into consideration however we can afford to be generous our nomination which is in this instance tantamount to an election is all that we desired the rest follows as a matter of course and it in no respect matters how bow our opponents may fuse or coalesce how many how few or what candidates they may bring into the field they cannot in the remotest degree interfere with the reelection election re of president lincoln for the ensuing ensulo term of four years now this is just as it should be our president has under difficulties of a magnitude such as no ruler in the worlds history has ever had bad to encounter acted all along for the best and it is believed sincerely by the people that be has done the best that could be done with the means at his command amid all the conflicting and vituperative elements that have existed at washington during and since the last presidential campaign president lin coans personal reputation and character have been unscathed his honesty unquestioned and his patriotism la in addition to all this ho he was once dahly elected by the people and the fact of his hia election was the flimsy pretext made use of by the people of the south for withdrawing from the government and should we now before crushing the rebellion thus undertaken oust him from the chair even though to elevate a man still more obnoxious in sentiment to the south as a ret ro ceding step from the consequences which they declared aiom ft om the first to be involved in the election of lincoln or any other republican our people have now DOW sufficiently shown them that it is not our intention to desist from arms until the rebels shall have been completely subdued routed and humiliated so much as to the physical agencies cies and now we have shown by the nomination and shall still further show by the election that the moral element clement against which they arose in the first place is if possible even more difficult to contend against than the physical no defeat to the union arms no victory to southern guerrillas and cute cut throats could h hive we brought to the leaders of half the joy that would have been manifested by them on learning that president lincoln had been overs laughed by the convention at baltimore for these reasons and because we are for the union heart and soul without reserve and under all circumstances we join with loyal men everywhere in their rejoicing rejo icings at the nomination of our honest president for whom we predict a succeeding four four years of just such quiet as should follow the turbulent years during which he be has bag held the helm of state |
