The change of time for holding the Republican National Convention will have the effect, if not of reducing the number of candidates, of checking the zeal and obstinacy with which they will be pressed.

The Savannah Republican, alluding to the recent action of the Virginia Legislature, says: "Under this state of facts, we take it for granted that the Southern Convention must necessarily prove a ...

In 1860, Lincoln was nominated as the presidential candidate for the Republican Party at a convention held in Chicago, at a ...