New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-21

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The Platform adopted by the Black Republican
Convention at Chicago was, comparatively, so
moderate in its character that we predicted the
defeat Of Seward as the nominee, and the selection
of some one less radical in his notions like Bates,
Cameron, or Lincoln. The game number of the
Crescent which contained our prediction recorded
also its verification, and announced that the Con
yenton had chosen as the standard bearer of the
party the Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois.
Lincoln is chiefly known to the country by his
participation in the great contest in Illinois two
years ago, wherein be and Douglas were competi-
tors for seat in the United States Senate 1t will
be recollected that an active canvass Of the whole
State was made by the two candidates, both of
them speaking at every prominent point, and FREE
quently "tackingn each other upon the stump
after the fashion that prevails in the South. When
the smoke of the battle cleared off, it was found
that Douglas was successful, though by but slim
majority. 1t was conceded, we believe, on all
sides, that Lincoln conducted the canvass with dis
tlnguished ability, and that no other man in the
State was SO capable as himself of encountering
the intellectual Giant Of the Northwest.
Some years previously Lincoln served one or
two terms in the lower house Of Congress, but
made no impression there as man of ability. In
1855 he was candidate for vacancy then exist
ing in the Senate from Illinois; but he was said to
have been cheated out of his election by the supe
rior tactics and treachery of his competitor, Trur
bull, who was a recent convert to the Black Re-
publicans from the Democracy, and who is now a
colleague Of Douglas in the Senate, and man of
marked ability.
In his canvass with Douglas, Lincoln took some
oxyfra In 1tnai ., rf1a
spects he repudated the accepted doctrines of the
Black Republican party. As instances of the lat
ter he declared that q stakeholder was fully en-
titled, under the Constitution, to the recovery Of
his fugitive slave--and that, if member of Con-
gress. he would vote for the admission of slave
State into the Union, if satisfied that slavery was
fairly introduced and acceptable to the people.
On the other hand, however, he went fully as far
as Seward in propounding the doctrine OF the g ir
repressible conflict, and did not hesitate to de-
clare that in his opinion the relations Of slavery
and afreedom were incompatible in the same
government, and one or the other must eventually
disappear--and he did not leave US in doubt as to
which one he thought it would be, and ought
to be.
In his party relations Lincoln was Wing up to
the time of the organization of the Black Republican
party-and his moral and personal character, SO
far as we know, is unexceptionabie. He is a self
made man, several years of his early life having
been devoted to ministering to the thirst of the
Hoosiers in the matters Of toddies and juleps. 1t
is reported that Douglas in of their discussions
inadvertently reproached him with an allusion to
his early pursuits, when Lincoln replied that the
only difference between them was that while he
stood on one side Of the bar, the Little Giant was
generally to be found upon the other-bnt we do
not avouch the truth Of the anecdote
We regard this nomination as perhaps the
strongest one the Republican party could have
made. In this view of the case it becomes, more
than ever, the imperative duty of conservative
men, Of all parties and all sections, to combine
together for the defeat of this dangerous sectional
party, and its final overthrow and destruction,
| Their real purposes and objects, however con
| cealed and CLOSED over by the smooth language
| of their Platform, have been too plainly avowed
| and too distinctly foreshadowed, to permit us tc
doubt their ultimate Intentions. If successful the
| institution of slavery is to be attacked in every
conceivable mode-for nothing else will satisfy the
| fanaticism at the North which oyershadows every
just and conservative sentiment. If the Unior
| nominations at Baltimore cannot combine the con
seryatism of the country, North and South for the
defeat of this sectional ticket, some other mode
| can doubtless be agreed upon by which this END
may be secured. In this crisis of imminent peril
to the South and the Union, we should take coun.
sci of our own safety and the unselfis patriotism
| of the people, rather than be made ministers to
the ambition and Vaccinations of juggling politi
ciaUS.