The War of the Outsiders.

The National Republican Convention meets at noon to-day. The busybody’s occupation is about gone. The task of casting the votes and giving the opinions of the various States is resigned to the delegations respectively. This will be a harrowing circumstance to a large number of well meaning people. A Considerable squad of outsiders from New York were here yesterday alleging that Mr. Seward could not carry that State in November; another volunteer delegation were urging that Mr. Seward could carry both Pennsylvania and Illinois. On both sides these persons were much more vociferous than the delegates themselves, and committed themselves to positions pro and con with a violence which the delegates would never assume. Nearly all the bitterness of the hotel controversy during the past two or three days has been evolved by these self-constituted representatives of the people.—The delegations, so far as we have had opportunity to observe have been discreet and judicious, refraining from objurgation, and forming their opinions by consultation with each other, rather than with the blowers and strikers of this or that candidate, whom half fare tickets have provided with the means of displaying their loquacity before an unusual audience. On Monday night, the delegates having mostly retired, these guardians of the people’s rights fell to beating on the nomination of their favorites, and staked large amounts of imaginary bank credit, ideal dry goods and improbable farms on the result. Thus far no perceptible effect of their impertinences has been noticed.

SOURCE: “The War of the Outsiders,” The Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, May 16, 1860, p. 1, col. 1