Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-06-12

{ heart with new confidence in the Justice of on
! cause and when under his powerful blow. th,
large Democratic majority of Illinois dwindlee
down To nothing There | saw him do wha
perhaps no other ia the nation Ia hav,
done There | learned to cnnfitie in the pafr rio
and defender of profound conFIctiUnS TO esteem
the statesman and 10 love the Inau-(ireat az .
, plause
And. now, saw him again surrounded by
the Committee of the National Convention " he
had come To lay into his hands the highest Lon.
or and :he greatest trust which political par
~ has To bestOw-an honor which he had not
thought of ia his bard-fnught battles which be
) had not craved and had hardly been sanguine
enough to expect. There he stood silently ls-
iening Ia the address of our chairman: his eyes
downcast; in his soul. er APPS a feeling of iu>,
PRIDE struggling With the overawng conscious
De>s ot responsi blllty. Then he answered thank
ing them for the honors bestowed upon him and
accepting the leadership the great struggle,
not with the exultant tone OF one who ina,
achieved personal triumph; not with the POM
pQNs airs and artificial dignity of one who j.
conscious OF standing upon the great stage OF
the world. bat with thai u.atfect cd modest SIM
plicIty of man who is strong IN the conscious
ness of his ability and his honest intention to
do right.-A pplause.
Many of th se who now rrorn Ell him had
voted for other Candidates IN the Convention.
and some, still laboriug under feeling of per
sonal disappointment, had come there, not with
out some prejudice unfavorahle 10 Mr. Lincoln
But hen they saw a man who had worked hi.
way from the hHruhiest station in life TO his pres
ent eminence. not by FAST speculations or at-
venturous effort. not on the wing of good luck
but 10y quIe', steady labor, unswerving fidelity
| To principles and his private and public duties
by the vIgor of his genius and the energy of his
characterize man who had won the confidence
| OF the people aud was now lifted upon the shield
of a great national party. not by ingenious com
! binatIous and adrolt management but by the
! popular Observation-Disclosures bv promises un-
! pledged TO any body and anything but the peo-
| pie and the welfare OF our country, his hands
free to carry out the honest dictates OF his pure
! conscience. life behiaj him, not only above
! repr"ach, but above suspicion. problem befnre
hIm. f.. the solution of which he was eminent
4 ly fitted by the native virtues of his character
/ the high abilities of his mind. and strong hon
est purpose. then they all felt, that with this
I pure and patriotic statesman, all those great
qualities would return to the White House
which makes Republican government what 1t
ought to be--a government founded upon vir-
| tue enthusiastic cheers--Anj eastern
delegate, who had voted against him III the Con-
venilon. whispered Ia m. in tone of the high
est satisfac:inn: "Sir. might have done a
more daring thing. but we certainly could not
have dVue a better thing. = Prolonged ap-
! plause.
/ ! cannot fnd words strong enough 10 dcsg
nate the Stiffness of those who sueerlngly affect
eel to see IN MI ltfcbIn tuI a second or tillTu
rate man. who. like Polk and Pierce had been
taken up merely for the sake Of expediency-
Let them AK Mr. Dot gas, from whose hands
! he wrested the popular majority in Illinois let
them ask those who frt the magic touch of
hls lucid mInd and honest heart let his de-
tractors ask their own honest secret misgivings
and in their own fears .hey will read the cause
of The Joy and assurance of his friends. \ p
pIau~e They whistle il order to keep up
their courage; bat mcthiuks it'll, a dolefu sornd.
Laughter aad cheers SO then. we stand be-
fore the people with the platform of flee labor
and upon II a true representative of free labor
rs candiiaie for the Presidency. On thIs at
titude We challenge our enerie, To the battle.
On or flank we are threatened by the Con
stttutIOnh Uuinn -uoudescrIpt by that party
Of dry hearts and dead weights. who recently
assembled a. Baltimore and conscious of their
inability 10 make a plat form adopted sentence
from Il Fourth of July Grafton is their common
creed, aud will in all probability circulate Mr..
Everett4 Mount Vernon papers as their prncI-
pal campaign documents. Great Laughter and
cheers They know no orjh. no South no
East. West. no anything. and leas, of all they
know thcms les. Laughte ] See them march
ON. ready To charge, gently anG with iUrbearauce.
lest they step upon somebody's toes, and siowlN
and noiseeS1y. lest their own soldiers frighteu-
ed by their own lmpetuosIty y, suspect themselves
of sinister designS-tnr theirs Is an army which
by the accidental explosion of percussion cap
might be thrown into the most frrhtiuI dIsor-
der. q eat laughter and applausel 1t Is said
hat one of their candidates cuBtempiateS deciI-
ming the nomintIon. Let him we'll ponder wlri'
he Is doing Let him MT wiz! his accustomed
rashuess III political matters skip over awful
a responsibility; upon his resolution
may pepend difference Of FIVE TO ten votes at
the next national election. Shouts of laughter
and applause
In front we face the Democracy Thanks to
the restless Impaiience Of Mr. Douglas ambition
and to his uuscrupulous duphcity. the Democrat
! ic party is fsst falling to pieces. Cheers. In
deed. We are greatly indebted II that man
When. BY the Nebraska bill and he invention
of the popular sovereignty dodge, he tried TO
gain favor Of the South, he helped build up the
Republican party of the North. and when by
refusing to ackuow Iedce:the logical consequen-
ces of his own position. he tried retrieve his
own fortunes at the North, he disorganized the
Democratic par. NJ the South. And even lately
he demonsIral ed the exisience Of The irrepressi-
ble conflict more clearly aud iorcbly, with due
Difference to GOV. Seward be II SAID. than ten
Rochester speeches could have done. He l.
like the fellow who. IN order To get At the apples
that hung rather high, cut down the tree. Ap-
piauSe.
Yes. that man has done much OF our work and
he done it voluntarily. gratis. for uo.hrux. Let
Us be hunes euough to confess IT for, Sir.
really do no, see why the church should refuse
to acknowledge its obligations to the devil.
l. it net owing 10 his laudable exe-tons that
democracy
two platforms and nary candidate Ia fact
when taking all his kind services injo cou>iier-
asinn / au allnuss S,rry ef ever having said any
thing agains, that man. But The tht+4, I, dOue
sud Mr D,ugla, must be satisfied Ia as hum
bile an apology A. am able TO Offer.
The first attempt II the Democracy to unite
upon i platform and 10 nominate candidate
failed. II coald not bu; fail a. long some OF
them insisted on laying doN = party creed tina;
mean, something \ democratic Platform IN
order TO be satisfactory. mast mean nothing and
every thing, a. the Cincinnati platform did
fCheersJ Bot 'hey will try again to repress the
the irrepressit le cunt'5ct which RACES ~ their
own ranks, and as ;he day for doing :. they
have with great proprieiy chosen the loih OF
June the anniversary OF the battle 81 aierIoo.
AnulauSe.- What the result OF that Conveu-
t:au vii be- whether one of the cunie-ttug fac
fi6ns will carsy the dag. or whether they will
succeed in uitinc t!el by coneedIng 10 one
the platform and 10 the other the candidates,
thrs-cilaal ing each other II ;temrlng to cheat
the people j. a matter 70 "a OF supreme lRIIf-
terence TIE Democrats unsiou oiedly thought
they had dsne very s-gsart 'hIng IN sdJuurnIng
their Convention v-ltEaut nominating a candI
date. - r. 70 deprive at a supposed adFan-
ta.-e of knowing what antagonist shall bave
Ia deal with. without being aware of 1t. they
have indeed done q great thing for ~ for they
have obliged u % rely fur stc1ess uuan .he POS
itire strength Z our 5ais-, instead Of the acci-