The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-05-26
THE TICKET.

can cause during the canvass which is now
opened Not alone because we recognize
in them true and ardent Republicans, and
sagacious, statesmen of incorruptible integ-
-rity and enlarged views, but also because
we believe that their nomination win be
ratified by the people at the polls. All the
omens by which the future can be judged
of, indiacte this result.
ABRAHAM LINcoLE was born IN Hardin
county, Kentucky, Feb. IL, 1909, and is of
course 81 years old. His parents were of
Quaker stock, that migrated from Pennsyl-
vania to Virginia, whence his grandfather
removed in 1882 to Kentucky, and was
there surprised and killed by Indians while
at work on his clearing. Like most pio-
neers, be left his family poor; and his son
also died prematurely. leaving widow and
several children, Of whom Abraham was
then six years old. The family removed
soon after to, Southern Indiana, where Abra-
ham grew to the stature of six feet and
some inches. but enjoyed scarcely better
facilities for schooling than in Kentucky.
Probably six months in all of the rudest
sort of schooling comprehends the whole of
his technical education. But hard work
and plenty of it. the rugged experiences of
aspiring poverty, the wild sports and rude
games of newly and thinly peopled forest
region-the education born of the log cabin,
the rifle, the AK. and the plow-made him
the man he has since proved himself.
cat 81, he pushed further west into Hi
nois, which has for the last thirty years been
his home, living always near and for some
years past in Springfield. the State capital.
He worked on farm as hired man his first
year in Illinois the next year he was a
clerk in store then volunteered for the
Black Hawk war, and was chosen captain
by his company; the next year was an un-
successful candidate for the Legislature +;
was chosen the next, and served four ses-
sions with eminent usefulness and steadily
increasing reputation; studied law, mean
time, and took his place at the bar; was
early recognized as most effective and
convincing advocate before the people of
Wing principles and the protective policy,
and of their illustrious embodiment, Henry
Clay was Wing candidate for Elector in
nearly or quite every Presidential contest
from 1886 to 1852 inclusive; was chosen
to the XXXth Congress from the Central
r. TlI;aoi, IN 1919 oDj carvod 70
its close, but was not candidate for re-
election and in l849 measurably withdrew
from politics and devoted himself to his
practice. until the Nebraska iniquity of 1854
called him again into the political arena
He was the candidate of the Wings for U.
S. Senator before the Legislature chosen
that year; but they were not majority of
the body so he declined and urged his
friends to support Judge Trumbull, the
candidate of the anti-Nebraska Democrats,
who was thus elected. Mr.. Lincoln's name
headed the Fremont Electoral ticket of Hill
nois in 1856.
'tIn 1853 he was unanimously designated
by the Republican State Convention to sue
coed Mr.. Douglas in the Senate, and there
upon canvassed the State against Mr.. D.
with remarkable ability. Mr.. Douglas Sc
cured majority of the Legislature and was
elected, but Mr.. Lincoln had the larger
popular vote.
..Such is ABRAHAM LINCOLN, of Illinois
--emphatically MAN OF THE PEoPLE-a
champion of Free Labor, of Diversified and
prosperous industry, and of that policy
which leads through peaceful progress to
universal intelligence, virtue and freedom"
A type of the Great West, soon to be the
controlling power in the Government
pledged by his whole past course to the in
terests of Free Labor, Free Homes for Free
People. and a Great Central Pacific Rail
road, he is just the MAN FOR THE HOUR!
Of HANNIBAL HAMLIN we only know that
for nine years he was Democratic Senator
from the State of Maine, enjoying the con-
fidence of the party both at home and abroad;
that in $50, when he saw that the Demo-
cratic party had unequivocally committed
itself to the interests of slavery, he re-
uounced his allegiance to that party, re-
signed his position in the Senate as Chair
man of the Committee on Commerce, and
appealed to the people of his State, was
triumphantly sustained, being elected Gov
ernor by twenty thousand majority, and
Immediately thereafter being reelected to
the U. S. Senate. He completely revolu-
tionized Maine, which is now as firmly Re
publican as it was before Democratic. All
over New England, and indeed wherever he
is known. the name of HANNIBAL HAaLIs is
''tewer of strength"
The Republican party has not within its
ranks two men possessing more elements OF
personal popularity than those whose names
they have presented to the people for their
suffrages- possessed as they are of ster-
ling integrity and moral worth, both as cit