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The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
content from various anti-Lincoln journals of the party began to be heard, the independent Fremont legion began to bristle up, Greeley began to grumble, the meets of the Evening Post began to growl, and then came the bombshell of the Chase Pomeroy anti-Lincoln circular. Then there was a Cabinet crisis, and next there was an armistice between Lincoln and Chase, involving the graceful mock retirement of the latter from the Presidential contest. The late terrible speech against Chase by F P Blair, Jr, in Congress, and his immediate appointment by the President to an Important command in the army, and the House proceedings thereon, show that the conflict between the President and his Secretary is irrepressible. What next. The Chase faction desire a postponement of the Baltimore Convention till September, simply because they have been caught napping, and want time to intrigue and to buy up the trading politicians among the delegates to suit their purposes. Postponed or not, the Co