The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-20

the proper man, and shed crocodile tears"
over the defeat of the nomination of a car
didate whom they have hunted through his
whole political career by persistent malig-
nifty, without parallel in the history of the
country. Such sympathy, under such cir
cumstanees, is a new thing. 1t was exhih-
tied in the case of Mr.. Clay, when General
Taylor was nominated over him in l84S.-
The Democrats were then very much troub-
led at the great mistake the Wings made in
throwing overheard their great leader, Mr..
Clay, and nominating the hero of Bueha
Vista. | know of no better reply to all
this, than Mr.. Lincoln made in a speech
in this House on the 9th day of July, l648:
"Mr. Speaker, let our Democratic friends
be comforted with the assurance that we
are content with our position, content with
our company, and content with our candi-
date: and that, although they in their gen.
srous sympathy think we ought to be mis-
cradle, we really are not, and that they may
dismiss the great anxiety they have on our
account Congressional Globe, Uot. 10
page 1O43.
The Republican party prefers to make its
own nominations, us it is able TO manage its
own concerns in its own way. This party
is the most imposing reunion of men for a
patriotic object which this country has ever
known. All good men, of all parties, who
desire to see the Government rescued from
its present degradation, and who would
stay the further spread of slavery, can unite
upon the candidates and the platform of
the Chicago Convention. The hope which
Mr.. Lincoln expressed, in the Illinois cam
paign of 1853, should be realized in the
great contest upon which we have now en-
tered. In his speech at Freeport, Mr.. Lin
coin said:
For my part, do hope that all of ia,
entertaining a common sentiment in opp6-
sition to what appears to US design to ma
tionalize and perpetuate slavery, will waive
minor differences on questions which either
belong to the dead past or the distant flu
| ture, and all pull together in this struggle
Il LincoLn and Douglas Debates, page 107.
| The success of the Republican party
which has been inaugurated by the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Lincoln, will bring with it great
duties and grave responsibilities. A strict
observance of the Constitution and an in.
/ flexible administration of the law must be
its rule. 1t must practice the most rigid
economy in every department of the Gov.
eminent; repress with vigorous hand al
abuses that have crept into its administers
ton; bring about fraternal feeling, reani
mate industry, clear out the pathways, anG
spread the sails of commerce. 1t must save
the common Territories of the United Stats
from the curse of slavery; re-establish the
public credit, and restore confidence between
man and man. The immediate re-establish
ment of the public good must be its frs
great object, and the peace and prosperity
of the country will be assured.
/ Mr. Lincoln has been but little in public
life, and he will come into the Presidential
chair fresh from the people," with ne
friends to reward, and no enemies to pun
ish." He has no complications with poll
ticianS, cliques, or factions, and no Outstand
ing promises requiring redemption. On
of the people, taken up by the people, HI
will be the President of the people. In hin
there are the elements which challenged tht
confidence of the Convention which nomi
mated him, and of the people who will cleo
him. lie is emphatically representative
man, and by the simplicity of his manner
and the purity of his private life. he is tn
type of the virtues which belong to grea
Republic. There is an infexible patriotism
in his heart, and he has the incompatible,
of Republican principles in his soul. II
has doctrines, not hatreds, aud is withou
ambition, except to do good and serve hi
country.
In these days, when corruption, prodlgal
ity, and venality, have reached the very vi
tails of the Government, the people have a
last found an honest man to administer tn
affairs of the nation in the spirit in which
our institutions were founded man who's
name has ever been the synonym of PROFIT,
and honor-whose reputation, in all the re
lations of private life, is without blemish
as his public career is without reproach.-
No man ever has, and no man ever can
place his finger upon single dishonorabl
or improper act of his life. He stands to
day, as a private citizen and public man
unassailed and unaSSailable-
GAN HONEST MAN, the noblest work Of Cod
OF no man can it more truly be said:
"His life is gentle and the elements
SO mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, this is u nIan.'