Deacon Smith Against Lincoln.

Richard Smith, Editor of the Cincinnati Gazette, gave the movement his enthusiastic adhesion, as the following extract from a letter dated August 27, shows:

“The people regard Mr. Lincoln’s candidacy as a misfortune.  His apparent strength when nominated was fictitious, and now the fiction has disappeared, and instead of confidence there is distrust.  I do not know a Lincoln man, and in all our correspondence, which is large and varied, I have seen few letters from Lincoln men.  The thinking people will vote for him, but not because they like the candidate, but for the sake of the cause.  There is, therefore, of course, no enthusiasm, and without this it is uphill work in a canvass.  The withdrawal of Lincoln and Fremont, and the nomination of a man that would inspire confidence and infuse life into our ranks, would be hailed with general delight.”

SOURCE: The Herald and Torch Light, Hagerstown, Maryland, Thursday, July 25, 1864, p. 1