Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-12
Hon. w. Mckee Dunn ON the Re.
publicauN Nomination.

Mckee Dunn of Indiana, one of the ables
and truest members of the present Con
gress, made handsome speech on tht
principles of the Republican party, aud OIL
its Presidential candidate. What he sait
of Lincoln particularly deserves to be quo
ted here:
the honorable gentlemen from Massachu
sets, (Mr. Train, at the commencement O
his speech bore you greeting from bis
State-from Faneuill Hall to Indeper.
dence Hall. bring you greeting from
Indianna. l bring TO you, dwellers on the
banks of the Delaware and the Schuylkill
greeting from the shores of the Ohio and
the Wabash; and the message which ]
bear is, that the election of Abraham Lin.
coin is necessity, if we expect to carry
on our Government in prosperity and
peace. (Applause)
In MIR. Lincoln we have candidate who
comes not before you as the result of party
Vaccinations and party arrangements. Two
weeks ago he was scarcely looked upon as
a possible candidate, not because te was
not equal to the demands of the times, but
because other names were more prominent
ly before the public, and because in his
modosty, in that simplicity of character
which has ever distinguished him, he stood
back, Knowing that when the public want
ed him, the public would call for him.
Applause, 1t is such men we want in
this country; not the men who climb up
to high position by daily struggle, with the
eye always fixed upon that elevation, but
the men who go bravely forward in the dis
charge of the daily duties of life, without
reference to what may be the effect upon
their own advancement. Such a man is
Abraham Lincoln, or "Old Abe" as he is
familiarly and endearingly called by his
neighbors and friends. Out West, fellow
citizens, we use that word old not signify
ing "aged,' but as a word of friendship
and endearment. This man whom we
commonly call "Old Abe," is only fifty
one years of age. He is the very prime Of
manly vigor, ready to take hold of the
helm of State, and guide it with frmness
in every emergency. A voice. "Just like
Old Jackson."] Yes, he is of the Old
Hickory stamp. He was trained in the
same kind of school as that in which Gen.
Jackson grew up. He was a Western pi-
oneer. He grew up among the pig trees
that stood thick in the Western forests
His early struggles were with the giat oaks.
But he triumphed over those giants of the
forests as he has triumphed over all the
giants he has since encountered. Applause.
Here is man who, in early life, had no
of education, who, when he
was boy, was a common loborer to the
farmes of his neighborhood. He was the
son of poor man, and had family early
thrown upon him for support. In the
woods of Indians, he went around helping
his neighbors to roll logs, to raise their
houses, to husk their cern, and toook part
with them in all the avocations of Life
1t was such an experience that made his
heart big. His heart was first educated,
and after his head. Applause. He now
stands an acknowledged leader, ranking
with the first men of bis State; and will
soon be recognized as among the first men
of this nation and of the world. Loud
Abbaluse. "Three cheers for "Old Abe."1
| heard some gentlemen inquire while
ago what kind of a statesmen he was.-
Now, there are some men who have an
idea that nobody can be statesman un-
less he has been great brawier before the
people; that no man can be great states
man unless he has been long while in
Congress-in my judgement, not a very
good school in which to train our Presidents
Laughter Itell you that in this nation
our virtues grow up strongest in the coun-
try, on the fields, and in the shops.
Ihave not lime, nor am I disposed to-
night to talk about tide platform which was
made at Chicago, and upon which sup
pose Mr.. Lincoln will stand. Iregard this
platform as in most repects admirable, but
have not very high b regard for plat
orms generally. l have seen them so oft
IN disregarded' that I have almost come
o view them as ingenius contrivances to
heat the people. Let mo give you an il
ustration. Don't you know that in 1852
he Democratic party, at Baltimore re-
olved unanimosly and uproariously that
he agitation of Slavery should cease,
10Th in Congress and out of Congress
Don't you know that in 1856, at Cincin-
lat, they reiterrted that resolution, and
hat tried to maka the same resolve again
lown at Charleston? Yet, since the day
hat resolution was first adopted, that par
y has done nothing else in the world but
gitate, agitate, agitate, this same irritating
uestion of Slavery. They would not let
rest. They forced it upon the country |
yerywhere and upon all occasions. This
uestion broke up the Wing party, it brok
p the American party, and at last it has
truck its hard head against the Democatic
ase, and shivered it 10 pieces. But beg
cave, gentlemen, to refer you to the his
ory of James Buchanan as President of the
United States, as a fair answer to the
uestion whether, after all said and done,
be man who is to occupy the White House
not the main thing9 laughter
Fellow citizens, l happened the other
ay to be in the Senate Chamber when
ne Hon. Mr.. Benjamin, Senator from
louisiana, was making speech, not very
iendly in its purposes nor very comfort
'g, l should imagine in its results, to the
onorable Senator from Illinois, Mr.. Doug
IS. l was struck with one passage of that
beech, which beg leave to read to you.