Annals of Cleveland

Illinois

Abstracts: 5

620

Cleveland Morning Leader, 9 June 1864 (ed; 11 inches) ~ See original
p.1, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

620 - L June 9; ed: 1/1 - Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, and Andrew Johnson,
the citizen of Tennessee who rose from a tailor's apprentice to the U. S.
Senate, yesterday at the Union convention in Baltimore were renominated as
president and vice president, respectively.
"As surely as the sun shall rise on the morning of election day, so
surely shall the overwhelming voice of a grateful people, speaking in its
majestic might, declare that Lincoln shall retain the seat which for four
years he has filled with such honesty, ability and patriotism." (11)

Elections, Campaigns and Candidates / United States

Index terms:

Baltimore, Md.; Illinois; Johnson, Gov. Andrew (Tenn.); Lincoln, Abraham; Tennessee; Union convention (Baltimore, Md.); U. S. Senate

1583

Cleveland Morning Leader, 1 June 1864 (ed; 128 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2,3,4 ~ View at ChronAm

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)

Political Parties / Fremontites

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.)

1640

Cleveland Morning Leader, 1 December 1864 (ed; 3 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1640 - L Dec. 1; ed: 2/1 - One immediate result of a Union victory in
Illinois must be the abolition of the black code of that state. Under
the existing laws, free colored men are punished by being sold as
slaves for 12 months, and persons who harbor colored freemen or slaves
are penalized heavily. "We presume this law must now be a dead letter,
but it still disgraces the State and the Legislature should immediately
repeal it. We are about to abolish slavery by amendment to the Con-
stitution, but we must also rid ourselves of the Slave spirit in the
free North." (3)

Politics and Government / Illinois

Index terms:

Illinois; North; Union

1706

Cleveland Morning Leader, 7 April 1864 (12 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.3 ~ View at ChronAm

1706 - L. Apr. 7:4/3 - Letters by express is a new and important arrange-
ment by the American Express co. The envelopes used for this purpose
are the regular three cent government-stamped envelopes, with the pre-
paid stamp of the express company on them, stating that carriage and
delivery of the same is paid to and from their offices in the states
of New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Illinois,
Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota.
(This appears to be the first attempt at "special delivery" of letters.)
(12)

Postal Service / Special Delivery

Index terms:

American Express co.; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kentucky; Michigan; Minnesota; Missouri; New York; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Wisconsin