National Opinion

The Strength of Sham Democracy.—The Cincinnati Inquirer, the home organ of Mr. Pendleton, in giving decided reasons why Mr. Chase cannot be elected, says:

We do not understand how a democratic candidate can hope to be elected without the assistance of that body of sincere men who opposed the war from conviction, and those convictions have been rather confirmed than unsettled by the events of the times, and the persecutions they have undergone. Loose talk, boasting and ante election gasconade is one thing and facts another. Presidents have been elected by votes; and to ask men to sustain a proposition which is abhorrent alike to their convictions and their feelings, is not the way to secure their assistance. We commend such consideration to war democrats and to the boys in blue, who are appealed to, to sustain the democratic party and its candidates. The Union party organized the forces of the Union to suppress the rebellion; it sustained the hands of the Government, assuming all the responsibility and odium of that course.

Senator Hendricks seems to have no disinclination for official honors. He is now a United States Senator; a candidate for re-election to that position; a candidate for Governor, for Vice President, and he stands a fair chance of being nominated for President. What a predicament he would be in if he should succeed in all his aspirations!