The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-01
CALEDONIAN.
The Nomination and its Reception.

Sufficient time has elapsed since the nom
ination Of Lincoln ard Hamln, for US to
have received accounts of the manner in
which it has been received in nearly all parts
of the country.
That reception has been most cordial I'd
enthusiastic. in fact it has never been para
leled on any precious occasion of the kind
The people everywhere hailed it with the dis
charge of neutrality-suspicious.
Examinations. and every demonstration usual
with people filled with sudden and over
whelming JOY at the occurrence Of some s:ea,
event, realizing ardent aspirations in the
present. or foreshadowing events in the fu-
ture, calculated to ditEuse JOY and sladnc,,
throughout vast community.
All seem to feel that better nomination
could not have been made-whether we re-
gard the sterling qualities of the men select
ed for honesty. intelligence and ability or the
prestige which surrounds their names III the
public mind that it is ore eminentiv fit to
have been made, and one destined to cuIn-
nate in glorious success.
Our accounts from the great North West.
where Abraham Lincoln resides. glow with
an ardor and enthusiasm that know no
bounds-the prairies are Il on fire the pco-
pie seem moved by singh impul>e-an al
most unanimous determination to throw off
BY herculean Effort the shachles of the cor
rupt slave Democracy. This sprit cannot be
crushed out nor smo,hered
The distracted Democracy will be utterly
poweress before il. Even if Douglas should
be nominated at Baltimore by the Northern
wing of the party, and this is the mos; his
friends can hope fer. he will be unable to
stay the tide or to carry in all probability Il
single one Of the seven North Western states
which, together give Sc electoral votes In
his own state his party have been beaten at
the two last biennial elections, and that It
will be beaten next November. whoever NAV
be its standard bearer, no reasonable mai
can doubt.
We have no disposition to disguise the
fact that large portion. perhaps ma Ios:ty
of tie delegates to the Chicago convention
assembled there with strong preferences for
that eminent and favored son of New York
William II. Seward. His vote on the two
first ballots especially indicated that prefer
ence on the part. not onl Y Of tie delegates Of
his own great state, but Of those Of many
other states. All however were aware of the
fact, that in his long and distinguished polit-
lcal career. a career marked by unrvaiIed
talents-broad and stateSmani!ke views
great couetesy and lbcrality towards oppo-
nents-and an incorruptihility never sulled
even by suspicion--le had become the tar
get of the enNenomed shafts Of pro-,lavcry
malice. Prejudiccs had been ensenercd il
the minds Of so called conservative mcrI-ot
men who though fully sensible of the ce>-
sity of rescuirg plundercd and sutcrin.
country from the further deprctla,ion> Of an
incurably rotten Democracy: yet starile al
the very word abolilionism as If it involved
some monstrous political hcre,y not to be
tolerated
This class Of men, ard it is 10. a small
one, though they entertained the highest re-
spect and even admiration ior William II.
Seward COULD not yield their deep rooted
CONVICTIONS, that he was on some points as
sailable so far as to detract materially from
his availability in what are called the doubt
ful states
The delegates mainly of PENNSYLVANIA, In
diana and Illinois entertained these views,
and therefore urged rrrsis;cn,ly and earnest
ly the expedercy and policy OF taking up Il
candidate less open to the objections alluded
to, and Yet not less attached to the great dis
tiEctive principles Of Eepublicanism.
In Abraham Lincoln such candidate was
found. The delegates from the states above
named gave the strongest possible assuran-
ces that with his name upon the standard
they would carry their respective states a
galnst any man the corruptionists could
bring out. They were equally confident that
with Seward they could not
These considerations no doubt determined
the course Of our own delegates. VINO after
giving complimentary vote toc uur own en-
inert fellow citizen, Judg. Col!amer, on the
very next ballot went in body for Lincoln.
1t was not, We feel assured, that they loved
Seward less, but they loved the cause mere.
Many Others were controlled bv similar con
siderations.
They were right. The ticket is rot only
every way worthy one. but it is destined to
win. This conviction is nearly universal.
Leading Douglas papers declare that if the
South persist in the course inausurated at
Charleston, of insisting upon slavery y!at
form for the territories and a reputation of
Douglas as candidate, utter destruction to
the party is inevitable. They urge on their
brethren in the South that not single free
state save California can be saved to the par
ty. They are no prophets, but they are en-
TREY right in these predictions.
Neither are we prophets, but We predict
that the cotton states will not swerve one
hairs breadth from the position they have