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The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], The National Union Convention. (search)
The National Union Convention. --The Federal National Executive Committee, appointed at the Chicago Convention which nominated Abe Lincoln for President, held a meeting in Washington City on the 22d, Senator Morgan of New York presiding. The object of the meeting was so fix the time and place for holding the next National Convention. The attempt to have it called at Columbus, Ohio, was abandoned. Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore, were taken into consideration, and it was finally agreed that the Convention should meet in the city of Baltimore, on the 7th day of June next.
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Suffolk. (search)
r. Who shall deny, after this, that everything has its uses? It is true we are not informed whether the electoral body always selected the best man, but that is a pitch of perfection which is not uniformly attained even by universal suffrage. The present Chief Magistrate of the United States, for example, might have been just as well selected after the fashion of Hardenburg as by the votes of his actual constituency. We recommend the Black Republicans to settle the claims of their various aspirants for the next Presidency by sitting with their beards upon a table and giving the virtuous and intelligent parasite a fair chance. As he generally selects the dirtiest specimen of humanity, it would be amusing to witness his perplexity between Lincoln, Fremont, and Banks. But, on the whole, we are inclined to think the choice would fall on the same head that the United States people have chosen, and which has furnished bed and board to political parasites for the last four years.