Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-05-30

] VaoS- liz seS1uiiJ anu CdiHSSSiy OPPOSS'
the annexation Of Texas, and labored witt
all his powers in behalf Of the Wilmo
Proyiso In the National Convention o
l84S, of which he was 4 member, he ad
vocated the nomination of General Taylor
and sustained the nomination by an activ,
canvass in Illinois and Indiana.
From 1919 to 1854 BIr. Lincoln was en-
gagged assiduously in the practice of his pro
fessiOn, and being deeply immersed in bust
ness, was beginning to lose his interest il
politics, when the scheming ambition ant
groveling selfshness of an unscrupulou:
aspirant to the Presidency brought about
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
That act of baseness and perfdy aroused
the sleeping lion, and he prepared for new
efforts. He threw himselfat once into. the
contest that followed, and fought the bat
tie of freedom on the ground of his former
conflicts in Illinois with more than his ac-
customed energy and zeal. Those who
recollect the tremendous battle fought in
Illinois that year, will award to Abraham
Lincoln fully three-fourths of the ability
and unwearying labor which resulted in the
mighty victory which gave Illinois her Re-
publican Legislature, and placed Lyman
Trumbull In the Senate of the United
States. During this exciting campaign
Mr.. Lincoln pressed the slavery issue upon
the people of Central and Southern Illinois,
who were largely made up of the emigra-
ton from Tennessee, Virginia and North
Carolina, with all the powers of his mind.
He felt the force of the moral causes that
must influence the question, and he never
failed to appeal to the moral sentiment of
the people in aid of the argument drawn
from political sources, and to illuminate
his theme with the lofty inspirations of an
elOquenee pleading for the rights of hu-
manity. A revolution swept the State
For the first time a majority of the legis-
lature of Illinois was opposed to the Dem
ocratic administration Of the Federal Gov
A United States Senator was
to be elected in the place of General Shields
who had yielded to the influence of his less
serupulous colleague, and, against his own
better judgement, had voted for the Kansas
Nebraska act, The election came on. and
4 number of ballots were taken, an al
most united opposition voting steadily for
Lincoln, but the ti-Nebraska Democrats
or Trumbull. Mr.. Lincoln became appre-
lensive that those men who had been elect
d as Democrats, though opposed to Judge
Douglas, would turn upon some third can
lidate, of less decided convictions than
Judge Trumbull, and possibly elect SEN
tor who had little or nothing in common
With the then inchoate Republican party.
10 prevent such a consummation, he went
ersonally to his friends, and by strong
ersuasion, Induced them to vote for Trum-
ull. He thus secured, by an act of self
acrifce, a triumph for the cause of right,
nd an advocate of it on the floor of the
'enate, not inferior in earnest zeal for the
rinciples of RepubliOanism, to any men,
er of that body.
Some of his friends on the floor of the
legislature wept Ike children when con-
trained by Mr.. Lincoln's person appeals
} desert him and unite on Trumbull. 1t
proper to say in this connection, that be-
Eeen Trumbull and Lincoln the most cor
ial relations have always existed, and
nat the feeling of envy or rivalry is not
be found in the breast of either.
From his thorough convictions of the {
rowing magnitude of the slave question, {
nd of the need of a strong effort to preserve a
le Territories to freedom, Mr.. Lincoln was
nong the first to join in the formation
the Republican party, although the pub t
: opinion around him was strongly ad- I
,rse to that movement. He exerted him \
If for the organization of the Republican /
rces in Illinois, and attended the first a
epublican Convention held in the State. c
lis was in Bloomington in May, 1856 t
is speech in that Convention was Of sur C
ising power and eloquence, and produced y
eat effect. In the contest of that year, h
r. Lincoln was at the head of the Illinois o.
'ctoral ticket, and labored earnestly,
'ugh vainly, to wrest the State from the Z
lsp of the .prOslavery Democracy, with L
walking magazine of mischief" as ell
uglas has been appropriately called, at ed
head III
We need not refer to the GREAT CAM ~
IGN of 1858, so fresh is the recollection tn
all readers, farther than to subjoin the re
ult of tie vote on members of the Legis- Pc
ure, to wit
or ABRAHAM LINCOLN - I25 ,275.
or STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS l2III9.
By reason, however, of the fragrant ap. on
tionment of the Statein Legislative Dis br
It's, by which a majority of the members Pr
always elected by minority of the ga
pie, Mr.. Douglas was, as is well known, do
1rned to the Senate ~ oP
Abraham Lincoln in private is literally an
mpeaehablc. Among all who know ide
/, his most acceptable, and at the same the
. appropriate sou5yiqpet. is that by ING
ch he is most widely known: twl
"HONEST OLD ABE" to
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Why is the practice of praising children oh;
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