UNITED STATES. 



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6. The perfection of a sound system of national 

 currency. 



7. Such subordination of States to the General 

 Government as shall secure a true nationality. 



8. A general adherence to the practise of the GOT- 

 ernment for thirty years as respects the one-term 

 policy. 



P. Thorough protection of individual rights, includ- 

 ing the right of free speech, a free press, and the 

 habeas corpus. 



10. The support of a liberal protective system of 

 foreign emigration. 



11. Extension of aid toward the construction of a 

 Pacific railroad. 



Mr. "Wilkinson, at the conclusion of Mr. 

 Pomeroy's speech, made some remarks eulogis- 

 tic of the existing Executive and his Adminis- 

 tration, saying that if Mr. LIXCOI.X did not ad- 

 vance as fast as some might desire, one thing 

 was certain he never retraced a step once 

 taken. 



On March 25th, a movement was made to 

 obtain a postponement of the meeting of the 

 Baltimore Convention, by an application to the 

 committee, as follows : 



XEW YORK, March 25. 

 To tfa National Executive Committee of the Union and 



Republican parties. 



GEXTLBMEX: The undersigned, friends of the Gov- 

 ernment and supporters of the present Administra- 

 tion, respectfully suggest to you the propriety of re- 

 considering your recent action calling a convention 

 of the Union and republican parties at Baltimore, on 

 the 7th day of June next, to nominate a candidate 

 for President of the United States for the ensuing 

 term. 



In the opinion of the undersigned, the country is 

 not now in a position to enter into a Presidential con- 

 test. It is very important that all parties friendly to 

 the Government shall be united in support of a single 

 candidate, and that, when a selection shall be made, 

 it shall be acquiesced in by all loyal sections of the 

 country, and by all branches of the loyal party. It 

 is equally clear that such unanimity cannot at' pres- 

 ent be obtained, and it is not believed that it can be 

 reached as early as the d;iy named by you for the 

 national convention. 



Upon the result of the measures adopted by the 

 Administration to finish the war during the present 

 spring and summer, will depend the wish of the peo- 

 ple to continue in power their present leaders, or to 

 change them for those from whom they may expect 

 other and more satisfactory results. 



Whatever time maybe gained will be an advantage 

 to the countrv, inasmuch as it will allow the forming 

 of a better informed opinion on these subjects. 



In the opinion of the undersigned, whatever will 

 tend to lessen the duration and allay the acrimony 

 of the Presidential strife, which is always exciting 

 and disturbing in proportion to the length of the 

 canvass, will be an advantage to the countrv. 



In periods of war and great civil revulsions, time 

 is reckoned by events, and months are as years in 

 the periods of peace. 



With a pure and patriotic desire to serve the best 

 interests of the country, and in the belief that they 

 will be best served by a postponement of a political 

 convention to the latest day possible, we respectfully 

 ask that you will reconsider your action, and name a 

 ay for the assembling of the national convention 

 ot earlier than the first day of September next. 

 Respectfully your obedient serv;. 



W. C. BRYANT, Wir. K. STKOXG, 



J. McKATE, WM. Crr.Tis XOYBS, 



GEORGE P. PCTXAM, LORENZO SHERWOOD, 



GEORGE OPDTKE. 

 VOL. iv. 50 A 



Dist. 19, A. H. Bailey. 

 18, James A. Bell, 

 17, Albert Hobbs, 

 15, James M. Cook, 

 Kolger, 



3-, N. M. Allen, 

 80, Wilkes Anecll, 



S. T. Havt, 

 -'. Dan II. Cole, 



N. Y. State .- 



Dist. 21, Cheney Ames. 

 II. Hastings, 



_. 1>. Strnnir, 

 6, Wm. Lai in beer, 

 jr., 



1'k Jutland, 

 24, K. Cornell, 

 9, II. K. Low. Con- 

 testant. 



The above list, says the X. Y. "Tribune " of 

 April 2">th. "contains the namesof two-thir 

 the Unionists chosen to our present E 

 ate. Others, who would doubtless have signed, 

 were not in Albany when the above signatures 

 were given. We understand that but two Sen- 

 ators declined to affix their names." 



Tfce views of the Abolitionists at this time are 

 expressed in the following statement of the 

 'Xational Anti-Slavery Standard": 



Mr. Garrison has intimated his opinion, in his own 

 paper, that Mr. Lincoln is on the whole the most un- 

 exceptionable candidate likely to secure an election. 

 Other eminent Abolitionists have pronounced even 

 more decidedly in favor of Gen. Fremont. And yet 

 others, we believe, incline to the party of Mr. Chase, 

 should the Republican Convention ttirust the nomi- 

 nation upon him in spite of his reclamations. But 

 all these inclinings come solely from the belief in the 

 minds of these several men, that their candidate is 

 the man best fitted to finish the great work appointed 

 to this generation to do, or to leave undone at the 

 price of ruin. Not one of them will retain his alle- 

 giance to his favorite chief a moment after he has 

 been seen to falter, or after a truer leader shall ap- 

 pear in the field. It is not Lincoln, or Fremont, or 

 Chase, or Butler, that they consider chiefly in thi 

 regard, but the slave, whose interests only they are 

 to consult, and whose champion only they look for 

 when they cast about for a fitting Hea'd to the Nation, 

 In their private capacity Abolitionists will exercise 

 their perfect freedom of individual opinion. 



On May 6th, the following address uf Rad- 

 ical Republicans in favor of Gen. Fremont to 

 the people was issued, inviting a mass conven- 

 tion at Cleveland, 0. 

 To tie People of the Unite! States. 



After having labored ineffectually to defer as far 

 as was in our power the critical moment when the 

 attention of the people must inevitably be fixed upon 

 the selection of a candidate for the Chief Magistracy 

 of the country ; after having interrogated our con- 

 science and consulted our duty as citizens ; obeying 

 at once the sentiment of a mature conviction and a 

 profound affection for the common country, we feel 

 ourselves impelled on our own responsibility to de- 

 clare to the people that the time has come for all 

 independent men, jealous of their liberties and of the 

 national greatness, to confer together and unite to 

 resist the swelling invasion of an open, shameless, 

 and unrestrained patronage which threatens to en- 

 gulf under its destructive wave the rights of the 

 people, the liberty and dignity of the Nation. 



Deeply impressed with the conviction that, in a 

 time of revolution, when the public attention is 

 turned exclusively to the success of armies, and is 

 consequently less vigilant of the public liberties, the 

 patronage derived from the organization of an army 

 of a million of men, and an administration of affairs 

 which seeks to control the remotest parts of the 

 country in favor of its Supreme Chief, constitute a 

 danger seriously threatening to the stability of repub- 

 lican institutions ; we declare that the principle of 

 One Term, which has now acquired nearly the force 

 of law by the consecration of time, ought to be in- 



