. Harper's weekly. NTH t:Fiv : HARPERS WEEKLY. [April 9, 1864. THE TOEN HARPERS WEEKLY. t, April 9, 1864. THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. HAS the Union Convention been called tomeet at too early a day ? There are someloyal journals which warmly insist that it has,and that it should be postponed until the first ofSeptember. Their chief argument seems to bethat we have a momentous campaign before us,which requires the hearty and united support ofall good citizens, while the discussion of- theclaims of the candidates will certainly distract rdlJ ,.un-:-.:

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. Harper's weekly. NTH t:Fiv : HARPERS WEEKLY. [April 9, 1864. THE TOEN HARPERS WEEKLY. t, April 9, 1864. THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. HAS the Union Convention been called tomeet at too early a day ? There are someloyal journals which warmly insist that it has,and that it should be postponed until the first ofSeptember. Their chief argument seems to bethat we have a momentous campaign before us,which requires the hearty and united support ofall good citizens, while the discussion of- theclaims of the candidates will certainly distract rdlJ ,.un-:-.:rnllv our edor!-. One journal, indeed, goes so far as to suggest thatthe coming campaign is in some seDse final, andthat if we do not crush the rebellion this sum-mer we shall relinquish the struggle—a viewwhich seems to us simply all the advocates of postponing the nomina- ?:;:,n ?! • 0, U, :\ ??;,?? :i\ will be the virtual defeat of Mr. Lincoln. Now, since there is a President to be elected in November, and since he ought certainly, in order to sec

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