The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-06-16
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The New York Independent Henry Ward
Beecher's paper) has raised at the head of
its columns the name of Lincoln and Ham
lin in autograph, and goes in heartily for
their support. This is rather novelty on
the part of the religious press, but it shows
at the same time how the ourrons Of fep~-
lar feeling is setting.
The Louisville Journal thinks the nom
ination of Lincoln threatens the success of
the Republican party, and as Lincoln, it
says, is just as dangerous and radical Re-
publican as Seward. the -slaveryites are
called upon to be peculiarly jealous to avert
the threatened triumph of freedom in the
land. The Journal evidently feels in its
bones the near approach of the downfall of
the pro-slavery power.
The Detroit Daily advertiser says:
"The mercenary followers of Mr.. Doug
las differ very widely from their master in
regard to Mr.. Lincoln's popularity and abil-
ity. They declare him to be only a very
small man, in talent or popularity, or qualifi-
cations of any kind for the position to which
he has been nominated. But Mr.. Douglas,
who knows him much better than his men
sharp encounters with Mr. Lincoln, he has
had somewhat better opportunities of form
ing a correct judgment of our candidate
than they have, and it will hardly be denied
that he is fully as competent to Judge cor
rectly as they are. He says Mr.. Lincoln
is an upright, gifted and popular candid
ate, with great strength in the North West, ,
&c. We are quite willing to offset the opin-
ion of Mr.. Douglas, who knoaOs Mr.. Lin
coin, against that of his followers, who do
not know him. They must either take is
sue with their leader or abandon their charg-
es against Mr.. Lincoln"
After the nominations at Chicago,
many delegates who were going to visit the
next President. at Springfield, H., request
ed of Joshua R. Giddings to write letter
to Mr.. Lincoln. He consented and imme-
diately wrote as follows:
DEAR LINCOLN: You're nominated.
You WILL BE ELECTED. After your cleo
ton, thousands will crowd around you,
claiming rewards for services rendered. /,
too, have my claims upon you. have not
worked for your nomination, nor for that of
any other man. I have labored for the es-
adjustment of principles; and when men
came to me asking my opinion of you, l
only told them, Lincoln is an honest man.
Ali 1 ask of you in return for my services
is, make my statement good throughout yOnr
Administration. Yours, GIDDIEGs."
The Buffalo Express publishes the fol-
lowing extract from a letter from an Old
Wing of Boston:
"Your Chicago ticket is bound to sweep
the country. It will equal the hard-cider
times of 1910, or the Rough and Ready of
later period. / hear on all sides gener-
al scaving in or rolling off the fence of
hundreds of Old Wings and others who,
for the last six or eight years, have follow
ed no ones lead, and know not where they
belonged or where to go. We flor I am
one of them) now think there can be no
mistake, and that the Chicago ticket is bound
to succeed"
"A correspondent of the New York
EUening Post gives pleasant account of
the lady who is to move into the White
House next March:
''She is quite pattern of ladv-ike
courtesy and polish. She eonyerses with
freedom and grace, and is thoroughly ar fat
in all the little amenities of society. Mrs.
Lincoln belongs, By the mothers side, to
the Preston family of Kentucky, has re-
ceived a liberal and refined education, and
win adorn the White House. She is. am
told, strict and consistent member of the
Presbyterian church
MIR. Geo. G. Fogg, the accomplished
editor of the Concord, N. H. Lndependen