The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

FOR THE CINCINNATI REPUBLICAN.

Until I had read the Gazette of yesterday morning, I had supposed you were quizzing in your assertions that Mr. Hammond was about reforming himself in politics. But now I begin to think 'tis true; for he is becoming good natured and facetious, and that's a sign he has at present an impulse to forsake his old censorious and calumnious course. He does not condemn the project of holding a Convention for the nomination of candidates-for divers reasons, perhaps. He well remembers the caucus by the self-styled "National Republicans," in Cincinnati, last year, which he attended, and in which a nomination of National Republicans "dyed in the wool," was made, with a hope--a forlorn hope-of defeating the democracy of the country: and it is very rationally surmised, that although he "obligingly" sneers at Democracy, he intends it to be received half in earnest and half in sportive humor, that he may, as the event may require, say-it was all a joke.

But I took my pen up to say a word respecting the convention; and I will leave Mr. H. with the single suggestion, that there will be a fine opportunity, at Heckewelder's, on the 24th, for himself and others, who are not determined to stand out in their contumacy of the people, to attend and make known their abjuration of aristocracy, and exhibit their tokens of reformation.

What is a convention, like the one proposed to be held at Carthage? Is it an engine intended or calculated to mislead the people? Is it unfair— deceptive—or in any wise mischievous? How? I ask. Here are some thirty or forty citizens, many of whom have received the suffrages, the confidence and the approbation of the people, as well tried and faithful servants—with others of all classes, as well mechanics and laborers, as merchants and farmers, —who recommend to the people to meet and commune together on the subject of electing their public agents, that suitable persons may be agreed upon as candidates, that each section and neighborhood of the county may be advised, not how to vote, but who are the candidates most acceptable to the people at large; that they may not waste their suffrage upon unpopular and unsuccessful aspirants for office, who put themselves in nomination, or procure it to be done by intrigue, and who might, but for an interchange of sentiment among the people, foist themselves into office, amidst a diversity of candidates, by a vote, perhaps, of one fourth of the electors. At the township and ward meetings, to elect delegates, every democrat attends, who feels an interest in our elections, and freely speaks and freely acts. At the Convention, every delegate expresses, as far as he knows, the will and pleasure of his township or ward, and thus a selection of candidates is made: and the people are then left as free as before, to vote for whom they please; there being no other principle to bind even a democrat to vote for the candidates nominated by the convention but his voluntary, free will, to save the offices of the people from the hands of their villifiers and their enemies.

Who is it that objects to this method of bringing candidates before the bar of public opinion? Surely it is not a democrat; for the system is of the purest and most holy democracy—that system which would impair the yoke of British tyranny; and, when aristocrats object, democracy has cause to rejoice; for her enemy is where she would place him, out of her fold.

CADMUS.