Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-05-19
The Chicago Conve.,ion.

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pear in another column, it will be seen
that the Chicago Convention has nomi-
mated Abraham Lincoln a. a candidate
for President Of the United States. So
far as the Democratic party is concerned,
it makes but little difference who the
Republican nominee may be, for If the
Democracy are united their candidate
will surely be elected by the people, and
If they split upon Douglas at Baltimore,
the election will be thrown into the
House, and from there it will 60 into
the Senate, where the Democratic can
didate 10 sure to succeed. 1t is, there
fore, . matter Of little moment to us as
politicians, what particular ten-piu the
Republicans set up for us to knock
down. The Republicans have chosen
Arabian Lincoln a. their beau ideal Of q
President, and indicated that in their
opinion, he is the man to occupy the
chair Of Washington, Jefferson, Maids
on and Jackson. The status Of party
may be judged from the character Of its
leaders-for what must be the priest
when a monkey is the God! Let us
zee who this man Lincoln is. We shall
probably find that he is fit representa-
tive of the party he leads.
Abe Lincoln is a traitor. lie was
born in the South, in the noble old State
Of Kentucky, whose institutions he now
conspires to overthrow, whose hearth
stones he seeks to desolate, whose wives
and mothers he threatens to surrender to
the brutality and lust Of the beastly AT
rican. He it was, and not Seward, who
first advanced the brutal and bloody
doctrine OF the "irrepressibe conflict"
He it was who declared that the States
should not exist, part free and part
slave, and showed that he needed but
the opportunity to cry havoc and let
slip the dogs Of war upon the land that
gave him birth. What but a traitor is
that son of the South who takes up
arms against his brethren of the South /!
What but q traitor is he, who linking
himself with Giddings and Garrison,
commits the overt act of counselng des.
truction of everything his countrymen Of
the South Lolds near and dear? Such a
man is Lincoln, and he has found men
base enough to reward him for his treas
on. They forget that he who does not
prove true to his native land, cannot be
expected to be faithful to any other.
And yet these Republicans, with an in
nate sense Of propriety, we did not ex-
pect always select traitor as their
leader. Fremont of South Carolina, in
SO, and Lincoln of Kentucky, in go :!
Besides his treason, what has Lincoln
done to recommend him! Three years
ago, though he had had ample oppor-
tunities to distinguish himself in Con-
gress, his name was unknown beyond
the limits Of his judicial district. He had
been at Washington, it is true, but like
the majority of Congressman, left the
House Of Representatives without ma
king the slightest reputation, and sunk
by his own weight to his proper level
that Of a village lawyer. From that
time until the Black Republicans, in
securing the State Of Illinois for an OPP
ponent to Judge Douglas, discovered
him delviug in the mysteries of a forty
dollar horse case in the Sangamon coun-
ty court, even his friends ha0 failed to
detect the brilliant oratory and profound
Craftsmanship which he had successfully
Concealed from their closest scrutiny
Party jealousies aud personal quarrels
prevented the selection Of better man,
and made him the candidate Of tie Re-
publ;cans for United States Senator.
How he was beaten, beaten on the
stump, beaten at the polls, beaten in the
Legislature, by Judge Douglas, is known
to all our readers. Aud this beaten
horse is "the invincible standard bearer
of the great party of freedom" whom
We shalt hear bedaubed with praise and
adulation, and called Moses, q Joshua,
Gamalicl, Washington, q Webster, and
Clay.
How calling must it be to Seward and
Chase to see themselves overslaughed
by this bushwhacker of Illinois? What
sad lesson must it teach the rising gen.
Grafton of Americans. The defeat Of a
statesman like Seward by Lincoln, incul-
culcates the belief that if one wants the
Presidency he must show himself un-
MT for 1t. When there is no demand for
statesmen there will be no supply, and
men OF the Lincoln breed will usurp the
places which the Websters, the Marcys.
the Eseretts and the Stewards occupied
and adorned. acknowledgement Of hi.
mother tongue, unable to write a line q,
English dramatically, without the leas,
distinction as legislato. or statesma,