Political Parties | Fremontites
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1575
Cleveland Morning Leader, 7 March 1864
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1575 - L. Mar. 7:4/2 - The WESTLICHE POST and the NEUEZEIT, two German
dailies in St. Louis, have advanced the name of General Fremoni for
president. An attempt to nominate him at the national convention, which
will be held in Cleveland, May 10, will be made. The movement is a
further development of the convention of radical Germans held here last
fall. (2)
Index terms:
Fremont, General John C.; NEUEZEIT, THE (German newspaper); St. Louis, Mo.; WESTLICHE POST, The (newspaper)
1576
Cleveland Morning Leader, 23 March 1864
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1576 - L Mar. 23; ed: 2/1 - The whole radical German organization does
not amount to over 2,000 persons. "If the Germans refuse to vote for
Lincoln, it will but slightly affect results." (6)
Index terms:
Lincoln, Abraham
1577
Cleveland Morning Leader, 18 April 1864
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1577 - L. Apr. 18; ed:2/1 - Friends of General Fremont are to hold a
convention here May 31. People in the meantime are invited to enter upon
incessant propagandism from man to man tending to convince the people
that they must rely on themselves.
"The entire strength of the Union men must be combined in order to
insure an overwhelming defeat cf all adversaries." (10)
Index terms:
Fremont, General John C.; Union
1578
Cleveland Morning Leader, 9 May 1864
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1578 - L. May 9; ed: 2/1 - The sorehead convention will be held in Cleve-
land May 31. These anti-Lincoln inen will nominate a candidate for pres-
ident to run in opposition to the Baltimore nnminee. A glance at the list
of names will show a most incongruous lot of names, consisting of many
nationalities and representatives of all the old parties.
"A curt examination of the list will give one a good idea of the
reputation and calibre of the signers of the call - that they are with
one or two exceptions, most gloriously unknown to fame. They are all
evidently soreheads... mad against the Adulinistraticn about something."
(12)
Index terms:
Baltimore, Md.; Lincoln, Abraham
1579
Cleveland Morning Leader, 19 May 1864
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1579 - L. May 19; ed:2/1 The NEW NATION, a newly-born paper and an
organ of General Fremont, is devising means to crowd the Cleveland con-
vention with people. It advises that money be collected and carloads of
poor be shipped to the convention. A placard labeled, "Fremont and the
Cleveland Convention," is issued daily in many papers.
"We find it in the New York WORLD; therefore, we will undoubtedly
find it in all other Copperhead journals in the country." (6)
Index terms:
Copperheads; Fremont, General John C.; NEW NATION, THE (newspaper); New York city; New York WORLD
1580
Cleveland Morning Leader, 30 May 1864
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1580 - L. May 30; ed: 1/1 - "All signs go to show that the coming Cleve-
land Convention will be a most formidable gathering. Our Albany cor-
respondent, who has excellent means for knowing, states that there will
be from Missouri alone, two thousand delegates, of whom one thousand
will be from the city of St. Louis." "The above, from the New York
WORLD, is a sample of the kind of puffing bestowed upon the Fremont
Convention by the Copperheads. There is not a particle of truth in
the statement and it is published merely to assist in swelling the
numbers." - (6)
Index terms:
Albany, N. Y.; Copperheads; Fremont, O.; Missouri; New York WORLD; St. Louis, Mo.
1581
Cleveland Morning Leader, 30 May 1864
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1581 - L. May 30:4/5 - The Clevelard convention is to meet in Cleveland
tomorrow in the interests of John C. Fremont. They have no local habi-
tation, and no organization in the city is favorable to the movement. .
Probably there will be 500 to 1,000 delegates attending. . . . . (8)
Index terms:
Fremont, General John C.
1582
Cleveland Morning Leader, 1 June 1864
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1582 - L. June 1; ed: 2/1 - At the Fremont convention yesterday, a resolu-
tion pledging the Fremont party to the support of the Monroe doctrine
elicited more cheers than any other action of the convention. -
"If they will furnish an army of 200,000 men for this special labor,
we are quite certain that Abraham Lincoln will forward them immediately
to the theatre of their future triumphs - to the uplands of Mexico." (9)
Index terms:
Fremont, O.; Lincoln, Abraham; Mexico; Monroe doctrine
1583
Cleveland Morning Leader, 1 June 1864
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1583 - L June 1; ed:2/2-4; 4/3-5 - "Yesterday... was a great day for
politicians. It was the day in which (vide the New York WORLD and -
HERALD, the Chicago TiMES and the Cincinnati ENQUIRER), the greatest
political movement of modern times was to be set on foot, a new party
be formed, and the next President nominated - a day more fatal to
Abraham Lincoln than the Ides of March to Caesar. -- -
"The day certainly passed off with most remarkable quiet. Besides
the arrivals chronicled yesterday, but few made their appearance, and
the convention, for one so widely heralded and anxiously prepared for,
was singularly small in numbers and weak in talent."
The convention inet at eleven o'clock at Chapin's hall. "The two
thousand delegates from Missouri have not been heard from. It is sup-
posed that they stopped at Cincinnati for consultation with the proprietor -
of the ENQUIRER as to the best mode of defeating Lincoln. The two
thousand from New York were similarly missing, and the convention was
in numbers a very slim affair....
"There was also a 'most pleasant lack' of leaders in the convention.
Horace Greeley... was absent, and his absence was regretted by delegates
even more than that of the masses. B. Gratz Brown was also unaccountably
missing, and the convention felt the loss of his active and commanding
intellect. -
"From the first it was evident that there was a secret, but
irrepressible conflict between the friends of General Grant, including
most of the New York delegation and many from the Eastern States, who
were mainly of Democratic antecedents, and those of General Fremont,
composed mainly of the old abolitionists and the radical Germans,
and led by Coionel Moss, of Missouri."
E. Gilbert, president of the New York "Fremont" club, called the
convention to order and immediately nominated ex-Governor Johnston of
Pennsylvania as temporary chairman. Johnston was elected by acclama-
tion. B. H. Brooks of California and S. Wolf of Washington were
chosen secretaries. A committee on permanent organization, of ten
members, was appointed.
The number of delegates attending the convention was so small that
the committee appointed to enroll their names never made its report.
"We believe, however, that there were about one hundred and fifty dele-
gates present, of whom nearly half were from Missouri and wild for
Fremont, and ihe others mainly from New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois."
In addressing the convention, General Cochrane said, in part: "You
assemble here intending to support the army in the field, and at the
same time to organize a great civil army to fight for principles, and
to save for all generations the precious legacy obtained for us by the
sacrifices of the soldiers of the Union. The rebellion, it must be
suppressed; the Union, it must be preserved."
The nomination of Grant "was very faintly cheerei, and it was evident
that the name of the hero of Spottsylvania would pale before that of
the swordless general of New York.
"Nothing would do however, for the St. Louis Germans, who voted not
to recognize God's hand in war, but to nominate Fremont.
"General Fremont was nominated by acclamation.
"The 3,000 delegates, with whom the city was said to swarm yesterday
by the imaginative PLAIN DEALER, cheered heartily over the good work."
General Cochrane was nominated by acclamation for vice president. The
naming of the party was deferred until night when a committee, appointed
in the afternoon, reported the name of the new party to be the Radical
Democracy. Bird B. Chapman represented Ohio on the executive committee,
consisting of 15 members. (128)
Index terms:
Brooks, B. H. (California); California; Chapin's hall; Chapman, Bird B.; Chicago, Ill.; Chicago TIMES; Cincinnati, O.; Cincinnati ENQUIRER; Cleveland PLAIN DEALER; Cochrane, General George; Fremont club; Gilbert, E.; Grant, Gen. U. S.; Greeley, Horace; Illinois; Johnston; Lincoln, Abraham; Mass, Colonel (Mo.); Missouri; New York city; New York HERALD; New York WORLD; Ohio; Pennsylvania; St. Louis, Mo.; Spottsylvania, Va.; Union; Washington, D. C.; Wolf, S. (Washington, D. C.)
1584
Cleveland Morning Leader, 2 June 1864
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1584 - L June 2; ed:2/1 - The "Fremont" convention held here May 31 was
given wide publicity by the Democratic press throughout the country, but
its slimness and insignificance was a surprise even to those who knew how
feeble the whole affair would be.
The authorized delegates present did not exceed 200. Of the six
or eight individuals who manipulated the convention only General Cochrane
of New York was f any national prominence. -
The state of Missouri, in which a rabid red Republicanism finds ex-
istence, virtually controlled the convention.
The object of the convention, aside from gratifying a spite toward
President Lincoln, was to affirm a more radical policy than any yet
enunciated, and to put forward a man who will carry the policy into
effect.
Mr. Foster, the special champion of radical views, was obliged to
confess in his speech Tuesday (May 29) that the Republican party holds
the same views on the subject of slavery as expressed in the Fremont
platform.
The doctrines laid down in the Fremont platform, those that are
vital, will all be substantially affirmed at Baltimore, (the Republican
convention.) Their realization will be much sooner attained by a strict
unity of the Union party, than by such a disorganizing scheme as the
one inaugurated in Cleveland.
"We have commented thus at length, not from any apprehension, ...
but from the conviction that the Copperheads... will endeavor to fan the
whole affair into importance.
"The Convention, in a word, was made up of oily politicians from
New York, impetuous, hair-brained Germans from St. Louis, several
venerable abolitionists... together with an admixture of personal friends
and parasites of Fremont, all controlled by one feeling - that of hatred
for Abraham Lincoln." - - (18)
Index terms:
Baltimore, Md.; Cochrane, General George; Democratic press; Foster; Fremont, General John C.; Lincoln, Abraham; Missouri; New York; Republican convention (Baltimore); Republican party; St. Louis, Mo.; Union
1585
Cleveland Morning Leader, 3 June 1864
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1585 - L June 3; ed: 1/1 - The Chicago TIMES says that the Cleveland
Fremont convention at Chapin's hall had more than 2,000 delegates,
and followed by saying the convention hall was filled. The New York
WORLD writes that this hall will hold 3,000.
"The hall will not hold more than six hundred at the outside, and
at no time was it more than two-third full." - - (6)
Index terms:
Chapin's hall; Chicago, Ill.; Chicago TIMES; Fremont, General John C.; New York WORLD
1586
Cleveland Morning Leader, 3 June 1864
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1586 - L June 3; ed: 1/2 - The Cleveland Fremont convention was made up
of pro-slavery politicians like Cochrane, worn-out Democratic backs
like Bird Chapman, and thieving speculators like McKinstry.
They protest "love of the Union and hatred of slavery, while their
official organs, in essence as well as in appearance, are the New York
WORLD and the Chicago TIMES." (11)
Index terms:
Bird; Chapman; Chicago, Ill.; Chicago TIMES; Cochrane, General George; Fremont, General John C.; McKinstry, Sheriff; New York WORLD; Union
1587
Cleveland Morning Leader, 3 June 1864
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1587 - L. June 3; ed: 2/1 - Article 12, Sec. 1, of the amendment of the
constitution proposed at the Fremont convention says: "The electors
shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president
and vice president, one of whom at least shall not be inhabitant of
the same state with themselves." -
"Cochrane and Fremont are both of New York, and in the event of
their carrying their own state, the electors on their ticket would have
to take their choice between the two, being constitutionally disqualified
from voting for both." (4)
Index terms:
Cochrane, General George; Fremont, General John C.; New York; U. S. constitution
1588
Cleveland Morning Leader, 7 June 1864
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1588 - L June 7; ed: 2/1 - Fremont announced that in the event of the
nomination of Lincoln at Baltimore he will accept the nomination of
the Cleveland convention.
"Of course he will. The man who sent all his friends from every
quarter to the convention here to nominate him, at whose suggestion
and in whose interest it was gotten up, who paid its running expenses,
and who contrived and, by means of his tools, maraged the whole affair,
solely and entirely that he might receive the nomination, would not
be likely to refuse it." (6)
Index terms:
Baltimore, Md.; Fremont, General John C.; Lincoln, Abraham
1589
Cleveland Morning Leader, 10 June 1864
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1589 - L June 10; ed: 2/1 - "A letter of General Fremont's accepting the
nomination of the convention, seals his political fate, and dishonors
his name."
He gratifies the Copperheads' sympathetic feeling for the Rebels by
stating that he "does not heartily concur" in that portion of the Cleve-
land platform which sets forth that "confiscation of the lands of the reb-
els, and their distribution among the soldiers and actual settlers, is
a measure of justice." (5)
Index terms:
Fremont, General John C.
1590
Cleveland Morning Leader, 16 June 1864
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1590 - L June 16; ed: 2/1 - Fremont, in his letter of acceptance, says
nothing of continuing the war and is very guarded on the subject of
confiscation. He has already attracted the drowning Democracy. The
New York NEWS contains a letter signed "Peace Democrat," favoring the
nomination of Fremont. "It would not be at all surprising if this
should be done at Chicago." (2)
Index terms:
Chicago, Ill.; Fremont, General John C.; New York; New York NEWS, The
1591
Cleveland Morning Leader, 17 June 1864
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1591 - L June 17:2/1 - The NEW NATION writes regarding the Fremont and
Cochrane party that there is so little difference between them and the
Democratic party, that it would be easy to adopt a common ticket.
"The NEW NATION is right in saying there is no difference between the
two parties. They are alike as two peas, as the two Dromios, or as one
body with two faces that resemble each other." (2)
Index terms:
Cochrane, General George; Fremont, General John C.; NEW NATION, THE (newspaper)
1592
Cleveland Morning Leader, 4 July 1864
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1592 - L. July 4:2/1 - Mr. Phillips, having committed himself to the
support of Fremont, now regards it as his duty to defend the character
and work of the Cleveland convention.
Mr. Tilton of the INDEPENDENT, strongly opposed to Mr. Lincoln
before the Baltimore convention, after it, sustains him and criticizes
the men and spirit of the Cleveland Fremont convention.
Mr. Phillips felt obliged to lecture his young friend Tilton, who in
return fairly "picked Mr. Phillips to pieces" in a cutting reply.
"We regret to see a man like Mr. Phillips allowing his personal
prejudices against Mr. Lincoln so completely to warp his judgement on
questions so vital to the Republic. After this severe chastisement at
the hands of Mr. Tilton, we hope to see him converted from the error -
of his ways." (12)
Index terms:
Baltimore, Md.; Fremont, General John C.; INDEPENDENT (newspaper); Lincoln, Abraham; Phillips; Tilton; Union convention (Baltimore, Md.)