Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-08-15
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TO Abraham Lincoln, Esq.

To Abraham Lincoln, Esq.
DEAR SIR: You doubtless have just now
no lack Of frierds-the most of them sin
eers and worthy but some. it may be
otherwise. claim a place with the ma
jorIty. and therefore will not annoy you il
person. but will print. aud you can read OF
not.
You are now occupying position which
few men have the experience to appreciate
Among many millions il can be experienced
by only score Of men in a generation
The distinction of being selected as cho,
sen chief by the spon taneous acclsmations
of so maRy intelligent. sovereign States. il
very great one-and to you it is dOubly
great, because unsought
The gems which attach to the heredita ry
diadem of the Prinse of Wales are far less
lustrous than those which are beginning to
crystalline around your name. He was born
to his honors yours you have earned. lie
walks to throne in golden slippers, aud
in path made smooth by many royal foot
steps you have made your own gay, in
brogans, to a seat above him. He is Ins de
a king by statute you, more than a king
by personal merit He Is chosen by law ;
you, by love. His crown was made by the
job in some old. forgotten goldsmith 5
shop the laurels of yours are fresh
wreathed by myrIads of living hands. He
is to be set over an empire because he was
born in palace you, because you are the
friend of righteousness and truth Abra.
ham Lincoln, well done no wonder your
position is The admiration of the good, and
the envy Of the bad.
i was a locker on at the Chicago Conven-
tioD, and amid the wild exullation of the
thousands that greeted the final act, my
emotions OF the sublime constrained me 10
silence. My mind dsrted across the Great
Prairie to you and | thought of the torrent
Of complicated influences and responsible
ties about to be poured upon your head.
said to myself. VIII he stand up against nj
o. will he, like 30 many Of his predecessors
bend from his rectitude. aud add another
example To the melancholy illustrations Of
human weakness in high places? That
sudden bursting forth of the pent-up de-
sIres of a whole ration, upon one quiet
man. seemed fearful. could hardly sym
pathize with the excited gentleman at my
side, who with a stamp of his foot exclaim
EDO, how I wish / was Abraham Lin
coin tonight !"
The Presidency is an object of ambition
to many men, and it is an honorable ambi-
tion. But there are so few who can reach
il, that throng Of hungry demagogues,
like the dragon at the garden gate of the
Hesperides, have encamped on rhe thresh-
old of the White House. exacting tribute
OF pledges from every man who succeeds
in passing and thus it has happened that
whenever the Great Door of office has been
opened to Chief Magistrate, be has been
compelled to scatter the keys of all the
small doors among these Presidential par
asites, who enter, and remain to plague his
friendship, and vex him out of all his vir-
tues
But the people are bearing you to Office
above the reach of this hundred headed
monster, ard in way intended to leave
you untrammeled and ancontaminated by
his touch. Yet it is not to be supposed
that you, being human, are possessed of all
al "
are therefore open to advice. The object
of this letter is to suggest that as soon as
you are elected you will seize the first Of
fceseeker that approaches your door and
hang him on the post thereof-there to dan
gle as an awful warning to the whole ban
ditti. OF course | speak in figure.
Your advent to power will be hailed by
all the good and patriotic as the coming Of
a reformer. The AugeaR Stables are be
fore you. believe there is but one way
in which you can reach the pestilent root
/ from which has sprung the ovsrshadowing
corruption that has marred our national
fame and we'll nigh ruined the public NOR
ais; aud that is by inaugurating polio,
that shall treat emery instance Of oppliedsiss
for Office as conclusive epidenee in the applicant
Of unftaess 10 serUe.
You will thus be able TO secure your owl
tranquility, and maintain your cognomer
Honest; but which. | assure you, you car
never do. though pure pre- serpentin'
Adam, If you once parley with office seek
ers. You will thus be able TO fill you
Offices with worthy men; men who do no
run unsent; men called. like yourself, sn'
for the same reason and by exterminatinl
fock Of human cormorsnts, more vora
cious than Stymphalian vultures, you vii
gain TO yourself a greater than HerculeaI
fame.
} An opportunity is now within your reacI
Of acquiring more lasting and brillian
renown than is often permitted to any mol
tai man. May you so improve it, by ms
. king burnt sacrifice OF every Office seeke
: that henceforth. secular. as we'll sacre
= history, shall have the blessed example {
q a faithful Abraham.
} Yours. respectfully.
o ISAAC JACOB.
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