612
Cleveland Morning Leader, 23 May 1864
(ed; 9 inches)
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p.2, col.1
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612 - L. May 23; ed: 2/1 - "As the time draws near for the Baltimore conven-
tion, the unanimity of the popular feeling for Mr. Lincoln become more de-
cisive than before. Nothing has been so much feared by the copperheads as
his renomination. They have therefore been industriously at work for months,
endeavoring to undermine public confidence. Their savage onslaughts have
been stayed for a few weeks by the important events transpiring; but their
former malignity was not misunderstood. The integrity, purity, and ability
of the President, the universal confidence of the people, have been powerful
reasons with the opposition why he should not be renominated.
"From every quarter come the evidences that these qualities are being
appreciated and that the people are unanimously in his favor.
"From every quarter of the country where there has been any expression,
it has been overwhelmingly in favor of Mr. Lincoln. The hot beds of Aboli-
tion are the most earnest in his support, and yet there are certain
gentlemen who affect to be in favor of a still more radical candidate.
In view of the fact that the soundest anti-slavery men of the nation are
in favor of Mr. Lincoln's renomination, it little becomes the mal contents
who are to meet in this city to prate about a more radical anti-slavery
policy. They can come before the Union men of the country with but
little grace and still less hope of popular approbation. Henry Ward Beecher,
in writing to a distinguished Indiana politician at Washington, says what
will be endorsed by all good Union men:
"In the present exigency, in view of Mr. Lincoln's past administration,
the wision he has shown, the inoral purity of the man, the great and just
confidence which the people put in him... I am full and strong in my con-
viction that he should be our next president." (9)
Elections, Campaigns and Candidates / United States
Index terms:
Beecher, Henry Ward; Indiana; Lincoln, Abraham; Union; Union party; Washington, D. C.