The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-07-26

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has not aimed at the Presidency could
possible have written and said, at the
various points of his political life, exactly
those things which give him strength TO-
day, and 60 to show him the most perfect
representative of the Republican platform
of 1860 there 10 in the country. Neither
he nor his friends could desire to change
his record at al. It shows him, rs q
Wing, the same auti-slavery man be is
to day, aud proves that he has been gui'
ded in straight course by the principles
thoroughly seated in his life.
While in Congress, his votes upon the
questions growing out Of the Mexican
war were always on the side Of freedom
and with the Northern Wings. He &C.
counted the war unnecessary, in agree
ment with the whole Intelligent opposi.
ton Of the North. But something more
than his votes upon the Mexican war
question, has been found in his congres.
sional record. It seems that Messrs.
Wendell Phillips 4 Co., those politi-
cal Ishmaelites whose hand is against
every man, particularly if he wishes veal
to a government which they hato, have
ascertaired that he introduced measure
for . stringent fugitive slave law, applic-
able to the District of Columbia. When
tho discovery was made, it looked badly.
and very naturally gave his friends serious
apprehensions of its effect upon his pros.
poets. But they looked up the record
, .sev, and found that this measure for q
fugitive law was attached and merely
incidental to q bill introduced by himself
for the gradual abolition Of slavery in the
District of Columbia. The provision for
the return of fugitives vas made for the
purpose of removing objections to the
bill, one of which was that if slavery
should be abolished in the district, it
would become the resort aud refuge of
fugitives from the adjoining slave States.
The bill itself showed the anti slavery
character Of the man, and the provision
was simply made to enable him TO carry
his most bene6cent measure, for without
it, he could hope to accomplish nothing
So it turns out that Wendell Phillips &
Co. have unwittingly been the means OF
discovering that which proves to the
country that Abraham Lincoln, thirteen
years ago, was as much Of an anti-slavery
man as he is to-day, and that he then
took an active and leading part in the
endeavor to free the District Of Columbia
from tie presence of the accursed insti
tuition.
Thus has it proved with everything, so
far, pertaining to his record His let
tiers, models of condensation and remark
able for their power of statement, all tend
to illustrate the genius of the man and
the consistency Of his life. His letter
upon the Massachusetts, two years amend
ment and the proposed fusion of the
American and republican elements, was
an apple of gold in picture Of silver
1t Strengthened out that matter in the
light of a sound, strong Judgment
Judgment proved sound and strong by
events that have since transpired. Thus
it was with his letter to the Jefferson
supper in Boston-as literary document
one of the most remarkable we have ever
met. In one brief letter he summed up
aforementioned that he knew him, bad
weighed his principles and could state
them, and exhibited the difference Be
tween the man worshipped by the Dem
cratic party and fhc Democratic party it,
self in modern times. 1t is safe to chal.
lenge the production of any specimen of
modern epistolary literature that, in the
same space, contains and suggests SO
much as the Jefferson letter.
No. Is A.. T;n~oI. IL -:.. -
letters AMI shaped his congressional rec
ord with reference to the position he
stands in to-day, he could have done no
better than be has done, yet nobody be-
!icves or mistrusts, that he thought Of
the Presidency. So with his Illinois
campaign. He was put forward by the
Republicans Of illinois as their champion
to enter the lists with Judge Douglas
put forward as their strongest man.
The prize that he struggled for was not
the Presidency, but a seat in the Senate,
yet, had he been ambitious for the former,
he could not have spoken better for him.
self, or done more to show his fitness fol
the post to which he has now been nom
mated. His exposition of Republican
principles in those remarkable discus.
sions are the best things in the presen
field of campaign literature.
There are some people who honestly
regard Abraham Lincoln as second rat
man who cones into favor by the rule 0
expediency His productions show hin
to be one Of the foremost men of tn
time. Beyond this, if any one suppose
that On unobtrusive lawyer, living in
small town, can by his personal powe
snd native worth win to himself and hol
the enthusiastic admiration and love 9
the largest party in the State Of Illinois
and do it all without brains, he show
, how poorly qualified he is for judgmeu
10 the matter. The man chosen from q
others to meet Judge Douglas was tn
, ablest man, and the manner in which h
! acquitted himself did honor to the estim
ate Of his party. This man is the Re
: : publican candidate for the Presidency
and, thank God, is to be elected.