Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-01

The nominees of the-g Chicago Convention
are warmly supported hf the St. Louis (Mo.)
Democrat the Wheeling (va.) InteIgene er,
| and the Wilmington Del) Renabkcan-each
of which able and influential journals have the
names of Lincoln aud Hamin at the head OF
their editorial columns. The Baltimore Pat
riot (another slave State paper) also shows
strong Republican tendencies, and though it
does not directly support our ticket, it treats
the nominees and the platform with fairness
and candor 1t gives lengthy history of the
career Of Mr.. Lincoln and his struggles from
poverty and obscurity to competence and dis
tinction, concluding the fiatterng sketch as
follows:
'In the Presidential campaign of 1856, MIR.
Lincoln headed the Fremont electoral ticket
of Illinois, but it was borne down by Mr..
Douglas in favor of Buchanan who's, jealousy
has since so lily requitted the Illinois Senator
generosity. In 1855, he was selected by the
Republicans to succeed Mr.. Douglas in the
L. S. Senate and the two canvassed the State
together with a power and ability that made
that conflict memorable for stump speaking in
the annals Of American politics. We renlem-
Der having followed them step by step in their
harrangues, so far as they were published, and
we then set Mr.. Lincoln down as Mr. Douglas
equal, if not his superior, and this is honor
enough for any man. Douglas got the Legis-
lature, though his adversary beat him on the
popular vote some 1000 majority. They. who
know Mr.. Lincoln intimately, say, that he is
a moderate and conservative man, that though
opposed to the extension of slavery into free
territory just as Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Bell were,
and the latter gentleman still is yet he is
State-rights man of the straitest sect. He is
also the sworn enemy of Executive and Iegis
lative corruption, and has character for per-
sonal integrity unimpeachable. His popular
sebriquet is, Honest Old Abe" There can
be little doubt, but that this man of the working
people, the arti6ccr of his own fortunes from
poverty to competence, from the lowest to the
highest position, will meet with cordial sympa-
thies of the laborng masses every where,
whether they support him politically or not"
OF Mr.. Hamlin, our nominee for Vice Pres
ident, it speaks in the following compliments
ry terms:
Hannibal Hamlin is native of Paris, in
Maine, and is now in the 5lst year of his age
lie too was worker with his own hands in
early life, though be soon escaped from the
tolls of physical labor, by embracing the pro-
fesson of the law, of which he is one of its
soundcst exponents For the last twenty-four
years, he has been in public life, first as
member of the Maine Legislature from 1886
to 1910, during which time he was thrice
Speaker of the lower House. In 1843, As he
was sent to Congress. In lS47 he was re-
elected to the Legislature, whence he was cho-
sen TO fill vacancy in the Z. S. Senate. In
1851 he was reelected for full term, but re-
signed when chosen Governor in 1856. His
party however took him out of that office,
ere he had fairly entered upon its duties, and
sent his back to the U. S. Senate, of which
he is now one of the most prominent members.
Mr.. Hamlin was always Democrat until the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise Bill came
up, when he denounced it as an offense against
pEghted faith, and, in open Senate, dissolved
his connection with the Democratic party, and
went over to the Republican. AS legislator,
his record shows him to be the author os more |
id"S tiah Ihat vi. any vi uls ColnpeeFs loF the
same length of time. He was and is the spe-
cial friend of commerce. No man of any
party questions his high integrity of charac-
ter, and his sound and solid Judgment has al
ways made him a safe law giver. Had Ere |
mont been elected in the contest of 1856, it is |
understood that Mr.. Hamin would have been |
his Secretary of the Treasury. On the sa-
very question, he was ALWAYS what the Demo- |
Gratis used to consider sound, before the repeal |
of the Missouri Compromise. OF the rights
of the States. he is the unqualified defender"