The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-05-22
neg~ A "wido awake" Lincoln club was

BEgH A "wide awake" Lincoln club was
organized in Cincinnati on Saturday night,
on which occasion, Judge Dickson, who was
chosen president, delivered the following
pertinent and eloquent address.
| Gentlemen | thank you for the honor
| you have done me in selecting me to preside
over the first Lincoln and Hamlin meeting
in the City of Cincinnati. Applause. /
| am for Lincoln and Hamlin. enlist for
the war. expect to be at the scratch on
| time and continue the contest until the enc
my throw, up the sponge. Loud and con-
tinued applause Republicans, let us re-
joice in the changed condition of our pros
poets. heretofore it has been our misfOr-
| tune to contend, martyr-Eke, for principle,
without the stimulus OF anticipated sue
cess. To-day all is changed. We speak
from the vantage ground of assured success.
The victory will be ours. Lincoln will be
president. Applause. The Omens are aus
picious. We have united, gallant, enthu-
siastic party, made up of the young, aged, and
the brave and the true from all other par
ties. Our opponents, where are they p
The broken fragments of that once proud
party now lie scattered from Maine to
Georgia, aud there may they lie iorever-
W tNC u pIdtiOtIu VI tAldL VIII
challenge the admiration of the good and
great everywhere. Our enemy travelled
in fearful agony for ten days and-n4iscar-
ried We have for our chief standard bear
er-"the noblest work OF Cod GAN Hon
Ksr MAN" [Cheers.l
Gen. Cass in his letter accepting the
nomination of the Democratic party in
l848 for President indulged in the self-com-
placent reflection that he was an exemplar
of the glory of American institutions, in
the fact that he had when boy left the
East for the far West, poor and unknown,
and yet had become the nominee of great
party for the first Office in the gift Of the
American people This reflection is far
more Justly applicable to AbraIn Lincoln
than to General Cass.
Gen. Cass came to the West, but he came
under the patronage of the Government,
federal officer and so skillfully did he fol-
low the Apostolic injunction, 4" Be all things
to all men, that for forty years, whether
Fedcralist or Republican, Wing or Demo
crat ruled at Washington, he hctd office, and
emerged from his long service with two
millions of money. Abram Lincoln, born
in Kentucky of poor but respectable parents,
early discovering that a Slave State was
not the place for him, sought his home in
freedom by the Ordinance of 81, and there,
with no patron save his own strong arm and
stout heart, commenced the battle of life
And most nobly has he fought! By the
sweat of his brow has he earned his bread
all the days of his life. He broke the
virgin soil swith prairie plow, drawn
by oxen, and mauled the rails with his own
hands that enclosed his ground. But he
did not stop here. In the culture Of the soil
he did not neglect the culture of the head
and the heart, but assdiously devoted HIM
self to the study of the best authors, to sci
ence and to the law. So that although he is
entirely self-taught, he has long stood at the
very head of the Illinois Bar, and in gener-
al information and political learning is sec
ond TO no public man in the country. He
has been much in public life in his own
State, always at the head of his party and
has served with distinction in Congress.
His character is without spot or blenish;
his integrity has in his own State passed in
to a proverb, Honest lis Old Abe" His
manners are gentle, unobtrusive, simple but
not rude; dignified, but not affected or Os-
tentatious. He is not elated by success.
lie has commanding intellect, of far reach
ing sagacity-and with & power of analysis
and close logical reasoning that is not sur
passed by any man III the nation. Above
all, be is right, and as decided and immova-
bic in his principles as III. everlasting hills.
Such is the man we have for our standard
bearcr-a NOBLE representative of our prin-
ciples an eNempitcation of the grow tn of
man under the influence of free labor--the
Cincinnatus OF American statesmen. Let US
rally around him, and bear him triumphant
ly to the Presidential mansion. Vehement
applause