The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-06-16
Democrat writing to his paper from Bloom

Democrat, writing to his paper from Bloom
ington, Illinois, under recent date says:
1.-The Republicans of Illinois only ask
one other boon to make their cup OF salts
faction run over. They do desire the nom
ination, by the Baltimore Convention, of
Stephen Il. Douglas. / have not seen
prominent and well-posteo Republican in
the State who does not express the hope
that he viii be nominated-so that the peo-
pie of that State may have the opportunity
to pass their judgment upon man who,
more than any man living, is responsible
for the present slavery agitation in the coun-
try. From what have seen, my delieer
ate Judgment is that, against Douglas, Lin
coin will carry Illinois by. 1000 majority:
and that he will carry it against any other
man by $4,000. There is no greater hum
bug than the pretense of the Little Gil
ants great popularity in Illinois. The
truth is, much of the present zeal of his
followers for his nomination, grows out of
the fact, perfectly notorious out here, that
he is hopelessly insolvent, and that his
creditors have no hope of reimbursing them
selves, except on condition of his election
to the Presidency. This last hope the
nomination of Lincoln has made less sub
stantial than ''an empty dream"
Mr. Henry j. Raymond, in letter to
the New York Times, of which he is the
editor, says, as the result of brief visit TO
that distinguished gentleman at Auburn,
that Senator Seward will finish out the SEN
atorial term for which he was elected, and
then retire from public life. 1t is Mr.. RS
opinion that no entreaty viii turn him from
the execution of his purpose.
All the Opposition papers of Indiana.
including eight or ten that supported Fill
more in 1856 have come to the support of
Lincoln and Hamlin.
In a leader on the Chicago nomina-
tons, the ". o. Bee says that 'in thus
acting, Black Republicanism has evinced
base iugratitude, but crafty and prudent
policy. It has treated its founder most
vilely, but il has added materially to its own
prospects of success
More than ten thousand persons were
present at the Republican Ratification Meet
ing held at St. Louis on the evening of the
22d inst. Frank P. Blair, Jr., and others,
were the speakers. Mr.. Blair said:
'In entering upon the canvass of 1860,
we do so with buoyant hopes. In holding
the first ratification meeting in favor of the
nomination of the Republican party, in a
slave State, we take the lead of host of
freemen throughout the Union. We have
infinitely more at stake in this contest than
the people of any other State. This you
will all admit. We, being in Missouri,
have a mission before US, not only to pre-
vent the extension of slavery in the terrific
ries of the United States, but we have to en-
franchise Missouri. (Applause, and cries
of we II do it, too
The Fort Wayne Times, hitherto indie
pendent, hoists the names of Lincoln and
Hamlin, and justifes its action by candid
and able article, commencing the course of
Indiana and Pennsylvania at Chicago.
The New York San, the oldest and
most widely circulated penny paper in the
United States, which has never been Re-
publican paper, has the following on the Re-
publican nomlnatlon ---T-----z -.
The first impression produced among our
city politicians, that the rejection of Mr..
Seward, by the Chicago Convention, was a
blunder, has been removed by subsequent
reflection. 1t is now admitted that Mr.
Lincoln's nomination is strong one, and
that he will receive the united support of
the party. He is, emphatically, man of
the people, and owes his present proud po-
sition to his own efforts and energy. That
he would, if elected, make good Presi-
dent, we do not entertain doubt.
His chances of an election are certainly
good unless the Democrats show more wis.,
dom at Baltimore than they did at Charles
ton. The people are tired of being ruled
by professional politicians, and they would
rather vote for man like Mr.. Lincoln, who
holds, in measure, an independent posi-
ton, than for an old party leader, who has
friends to reward and enemies to punish.
The Republicans of Dayton, Ohio,
had rousing meeting on Tuesday evening
last, to listen to the Hon. Thomas Corwin,
who delivered speech two hours in length.
The Journal says he referred to the action
of the Chicago Convention, to his own
course there, and to his preferences in re-
gard to the Presidential candidate. Of Mr..
Lincoln bespoke in the highest terms, as an
honest, upright, able man, who, if elected
would administer the Government with a
strict regard to his constitutional obliga-
tons. and with determination to mete out
equal and exact justice to all sections of the
Union. He said he believed the admins
tration of a Republican President would
serve to convince the South that the charge
of hostility to it, which was attributed to
the Republican party, was without any
foundation in truth. In Mr. Lincoln, the
candidate of the party. he expressed the
utmost confidence, as man who would do
right in every emergency, and in whom the
people might repose entire confidence.
One of the editors of the Boston Trav-
eler, who was at the Chicago Convention,
writes the following in an editorial in that
paper of yesterday:
at may not be generally known that the
direct cause of the nomination of Mr.. Lin
coin was dispatch received by Mr.. Kelly,
of Philadelphia, from the American organ
ization of that city, requesting PennsylVa-
mia to go for Lincoln as against Seward. and
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