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Cassius NJ. Clay. Ky.
Carl ShurZ, Wis.

Gideon Weller, Conn. Cassius NJ. Clay. Ky.
ThOs. SpOOner, Ohio. Carl ShurZ, Wis.
5. Meredith, Ind. A. j. Stevens, Iowa.
Asa l.. Jones, Missouri DIV. Cheesman, Cal.
Austin Blair, Mich. John Mckeesick, Mimi
U. b. Judd, Ill. W. G. johnson, Oregon.
ID. Henderson, Texas o. IL. Irish Nebraska.
VIM. A. Phillips, Kansas. JOS Gerdart, Dis. of Col
The President, Mr.. Ashmun, then, in a few brie
remarks, returned his thanks to the Convention
1or the honor it had conferred on him. He fully
endorsed the character and ability of both of the
no inees, and expressed the conviction that
victory must crown the efforts of the party in No
vember.
The Convention then adjourned sine die, with
nine hearty cheers for the nominees.
HOW THE NOMINATIONS WERE RECEIVED
As was to be expected the reception of the
news of the nomination, the Republicans exhibited
great excitement throughout the North and West.
The usual pyrotecnics were burned and guns fired.
COMMENTS THE PRESS.
From the Boston (old line Whig) Courier1
Friday, May Is, will long be remembered by the
men OF Massachusetts the day on which the
Republican party was executed Since the death
of Webster, we have not seen men so sober and so
sad, in this city. Had the Capitol Beacon Hill,
from some hidden cause sunk into the crust of the
earth-had the Court House turned round-had
the City Hall and the Old State House moved arm
n.arm on visit of ceremony to the Custom House
all these unnatural things combined could not
have produced so profound a sensation as did the
unlocked for announcement that Abe Lincoln, OF
Illinois had received the nomination of the Repub-
lican Convention at Chicago. Such was the intense
sadness OF the Republicahs-sO real was their de-
preston and wo, that Democrats could not find il
'"ei' ne@''' 70 nnaNe ''sh% oi 'He'r "l''c''on
The grand trouble with Mr.. Lincoln will be, tha,
there Is no reason whatever for his nomination and
none can be alleged, except that he resides in the
q a VaruS Slino inHa tn nerir
OF the candidate of that great Republican party,
which, upon high professions of political and moral
principle, has come forward with the avowed pur
pose OF taking possession of the government, o
lnstitutng vast reforms in national affairs, and
In tact, OF Carrying out grand political and socia
produced most ridiculous mouse
To talk about success for the Republicans will
such candidate, would be the mere faulty of thu
understanding.
From the Boston Advertiser Republican,
The intelligence that Mr.. Lincoln was nominated
on the third ballot at Chicago, yesterday afternoon
came upon no small part of the community
surprise. 1t may be frankly said, that to the arden
friends of the chief competing candidate it was al
unwecome surprise. The tenor of the proceed
ings on Thursday had led to the belief that Mr. Sew
ards prospects had upon the whole improved il
spite of the immense outside pressure, and that hi
friends had the leading position. II was the ole
story, however, which has been told in many a con
be warm and narrowly contested; new and singular
causes of division have complicated the issue in
manner to perpleX all calculation, but we are as
sured that the next President OF the United States
will be Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and that NJ
States, not even the State of his adoption, will b
warmer in his support than the States of New
England.
From the Ne,o York Participation.
The Convention could have made no choice, WI
think, which, along with many demonstration
of ardent approval, would have been met with s,
few expressions of dissatisfaction.
W. From, the Ne'S York Courier RepaJIiean:l
We need not tell our readers that William II
| Seward first choice, and that our labor ha
been that he should be the nominee of the Chicag q
| Convention for the Presidency. The Convention
however, has decided otherwise, and we bow to tn
| decison,-bOw with the greater cheerfulness mas
much as, although Mr.. Seward whom we conside
the first great representative of Republican princ
| pies, has been defeated have in the nomination
of Mr.. Lincoln, no erpediency candidate.
From the NelU York Tribune Rela,JIicGn
We need hardly say that the election of Mr.. Lin
coin, though it cannot be accomplished without ar
duous and persistent efforts, is eminentlv a thin
that can be done. The disruption of the Democratic
party, now less likely to be repaired than befor,
his nomination, the fact that he put forward by
one of the doubtful States, and nominated in grea
measure by votes of two others, namely, Pennsyl
vania and New Jersey, the universal desire of thu
country to settle the veXatious Slavery question in
accordance with the views of the Fahers-all thest
are powerful in behalf of the Chicago ticket.
From the NeaC York Journal Of Commerce Democrat
II there is any one in the Union who is repre-
sentative in the Republican ranks who EN-
bodies in a greater degree than any other the dis
tinctive dogmas and theories upon which tina
political organization rests that is the leading
Republican statesman of New \ OrE and of thu
Union, Senator Seward. As such, he was fairl,
entitled to recognition and to a nomination tht
standard bearer of the party, in the coming cam
paign. We thought, notwithstanding the notabI,
examples of ingratitude which we had witnessed
that the prominent attitude of Mr.. Seward, anC
his acknowledged position as party-leader, would
force from the Convention at Chicago this recOgni
ton, and that we should have the pleasure in the
approaching contest, of fighting Republican sec
honalism on its own issues, and OF encOunterng
its ablcst chieftain. This satisfaction is however
denied Instead of fair and square contest
that party has lodged the issue by refusing to
place its representative in the field; thus pur
suing the usual tactics of the Opposition, illus
trated in the nomination of Tavlur in 1913, Scott
in 1857, Fremont in 1856, and now of Lincoln
in 1860
The Republicans very willing to have the
advantage of Mr.. Stewards "irrepressible conflict
doctrines to whip the ultra anti-savery element al
the North, but they dare not take both the man
and the doctrines together. 1t therefore suits
their policy to ignore the former and to tone down
the latter to a standard which they hope will prove
acceptable to the North at least and possibly Sc.
majority of the Electoral College. In this
they will be disappointed.
The journal then thus comes to the Lincoln clap
traps that there are to be. No more "FremOn
and Jessie"
Probably an attempt will be made to raise fac
tiOus issue to present him as "honest Abe Lin
coln," nominated in the Wigwam, the candidate
who can "splt rails and maui the Democrats ,
There will be great excitement throughout the
land and ''Wigwams' will be built now, as log
cabins were in 1910; the passions instead of the
judgments of the people will be appealed to, and
the attention of the public diverted, as far as pos
sible, from the real issues before the country.
From the Ne'o Fork Times.
The Union Conservatives, as they style them
selves, having nominated Mr.. Bell, of Tennessee
on the gronnd of his integrity, the Republicans
have now put forward Mr.. Lincoln, of Illinois, on
the ground of his availability. x
By their nomination of Mr.. Lincoln and by the
platform which they have adopted, the Republi
cans have declared their wish and purpose to dea
with this question, if possible, in spirit of mode
ration, and to maintain the characteristic position
of the Republicans North with little offense as
may be to the rights the feelings the interests
Of the South
From the New York Express Union
He has the very reverse of ''the talent Colonel
Fremont, "the great traveller" had for his
"travels," save his recent visit east, have been
nearly all confined to the stump of Illinois. Never
theless, he is great Improvement upon the FIRE.
mont nomination; and though he is not very
great man now, one week hence, "he will be the
greatest man living" and we shall all be denounc-
ed who do not pronounce him so. The nomination
of Lincoln surprises and frees the contest from the
personalities which would have followed the
Seward nomination, and divests it of much of its
sharpness and bitterness. If the Democrats put
Douglas on the track, We shall have in the North
west the old fight over again, in which Dougla;
came off victor.
From NelO Fork Daily Netos-Democratl
While we think, on the whole, that this nomina
ton of Lincoln is safer for the Republican party
than Seward would have been, satisfied ii
is not the best they could have made. 1t is, how
ever, good enough for side of the contest.
From Ne,o York Sm-Independent]
Lincon's nomination is considered a challenge 10
the Democrats to nominate Douglas when their
convention assemblies at Baltimore. Little doubt
is entertained that the challenge will be accepted
and that Douglas will be put in the field. The
Seward men in this city do not conceal their vexa
tion, and they openly say, that either Douglas OF
Houston be nominated at Baltimore, the State o.
New York will go against the Chicago nominee by
a large majority.
From The Ne1o York Herald
The only other thing for which Lincoln has beer
distinguished besides his itinerant lecuring is the
defeat by Douglas in his own State, at a time when
the ticket of the Republican party had five thousand
majority over the Democracy in Illinois. In his
anti-savery opinions he is the most ultra and revo
lutonary of all the candidates whose names were
introduced at Chicago; and in the campaign il
which he was beaten he gave utterance to the mos
violent sentiments, and went into the rrepressiblt
conflict before Seward himself
At such nomination the Democrats have gooC
reason to rejoice. They have a clear road now be
fore them, and nothing arrest their onward
march to victory if they are only true to them
selves Their stars are lucker to them than they
deserve. They have the game in their hands, il
they will suppress their insane quarrels and unite
upon single candidate be he Douglas or Dickin
cOn nr Lane hut not Guthrip Uuntar or Rrark inr