Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-06-15
Acceutance of the Candidates.


appointed at the Chicago Convention formally
to request our distinguished candidates for
President and Vice President 10 accept their
nominations, have received their replies.l
SpRIseFIELp, ILL.,, May %, 1850.
Hon. GEoRGE AsHNuS, President Of the Repu-
blican National Convention
SIR-I accept the nomination rendered me
by the Convention over which you presided,
and of which | am formally apprlZed IN the
letter of yourself and others, acting as Com
miiee of the Convention for that purpose.
The declaration of principles and sentl-
menis, which accompanies your letter, meets
nv approval; and il shall be my care not to
violate, or disregard it, in any part.
impIoring the assistance of Divine Provl-
dence, and with due regard to the views and
feelings of all who were represented in the
Convention, to the rights of all the States and
Territories and the people of the nation, to
the inviolablity Of the Constitution, and the
perpetual union, harmony and prosperity oi
all, I am most happy 10 cooperate for the
practical success Of the principles declared
BY the Convention.
Your obliged friend and fellow-ctzen,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
WAsurSsToN, May 80, 1850.
GENTLEMEN: Your official communication
of the 18th instant, informing me that The
representatives of the Republican party OF the
United States, assembled al Chicago, on that
day, had, by a unanimous vote, selected me
as their candidate for the Nice-Presldent
Of the United States, has been received, to-
gether with the resolutions adopted by The
Convention as its declaration of principles.
Those resolutions enunciate clearly and
forcibly the principles which unite US, and the
objects proposed 10 be accomplished. They
address themselves to all, and there is neither
necessity nor propre,y in my entering upon
a discussion of any of them. They have the
approval of my Judgment, and in any action
Of mine will be cordially and faithfully sus-
iained.
lam profoundly grateful to those with whom
il is my pride and pleasure politically to CO.
operate, for the nomination SO Unexpectedly
conferred; and desire to tender through you,
to the members Of the Convention, my SIN
cere thanks for the confidence thus reposed
in me. Should the nomination. which now
accept, be ratified by the people, and the du-
ties devolve upon me of presiding over the
Senate Of the United States, it will be my ear
nest endeavor faithfully TO discharge them
with a Just regard for the rights Of all.
Ills 10 be observed, in connection with the
doings Of the Republican Convention, that a
paramount object with US is TO preserve The
normal condition Of our territorial domain as
homes for free men. The able advocate and
defender of Republican principles, whom you
have nominated for the highest place that can
crafty Inc ambition Of man, comes from a
State which has been what 1t is, by special
action, in that respeci. of the wise and good
men who founded our Institutions. The rights
OF free labor have, there, been vindcated and
maintained. The thrift aud enterprise which
so distinguish Illinois, one of The most -four
ishing States Of the glorious West. We would
see secured 10 all the Territories of the Union,
and restore peace and harmony TO the whole
country, by bringing back the Government to
what il was under the wise and patriotic men
who created it,. II the Republicans shall sue
ceed in that object, as they hope to, they will
be held in grateful remembrance by the busy
nd teeming millions of future ages.
an very truly yours. H. HAMLIN.