To A Voter

We aasume that you regard Abraham Lincoln as unfit to be President. We 1 liave a right to assume it. There is ' not an intelligent man in America ' dav wbo thinks him fit for the office. ' This is confessed. Tbere is no attempt on the part of bis supporters to represent him as fit for the office. Thcy do not pretend to praiso him. You neyer hear or rend an argument for hiselection based on the idea that he has proved competent. On the contrary, up to the date of the Baltimore convention, almost the entire party now supporting him, rid ieuled the idea of renoniinating him. If the statements of the party press are true, he was nominated only by paekiug the convention with omce-holders,_ and buying delegates. Mr. Chase's friends asscrted, printed and published this statement. It is theirs originally, and we have only to endorse it. Now, what hns occurred since that date to make Mr. Lincoln any better worth the support of an honest man ? Can any man, with a olear conscience, say that he is willing to trust the country for four years more in hia hands ? Do you feel ready to do it. You feel in your heart that there is little, if any, hope of sucoess for the Union cause with Mr. Lincoln at the head. If vou were to speak out frankly the secret thought of your soul, you would say that you don't believe he can save the Union, even it you do not believe that his election will prove ruinous. This is the present condition of vast Dumbcrs of rniuds. It is a remarkable fact, unparalleled in history, that the candidate for the Presidency is one in whom hts own party have no confidence, and the only chance of electing him is by covering up and hiding the free at tacks made on him witbin a few weeks by all the various classes and kinds of men who now seem to waut him elected. A most curious party ? The Tribune, whioh calis Li.ni a "sorry joker ;" Bon. Wade, who pror.ouuces hun a usurper, and devoted to personal ainbition ; Fremont, who charges him with the highest crimes ; Chase, who has told ihe trulh about him through the Pomeroy circu lars, and in a hundrert other ways ; mon who last summer deolared that be had never been and never couliï be fit for President - all trying to convince tl. e people that they wero mistaken, that they did not say what they did say, that it is better after all to voto for Liucoln, yet not one of them saying a word in favor f Mr. Lineoln's character or capacity to-day ! Nor is it possible for any one who supports Mr. Lincoln for re elcction to name anything n bis record which is worthy of praise. He has done nothing to entitle him to praiso, and his advocates carefully abs'tain f. om praising níni. Reviewing what we have written, we put tho question distincily to the reader. What escuse can yon have for not openly supporting MoGlcllan ? What excuse e:ui you give to your pwn conncience for fiecmiug even to acquiesoe in the choico ofsuch a man as Mr. Linciln? How will you reproach yourself if ho should be re-electcd ? Í5P Tiie Union, the onu couditiou ol' peace, we ask no more, - McQkllan.