The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-06-21
The Republican Nominations.

The Republican Nominations.
Letters Of acceptance Of Messrs. Lincoln
and Hamtin.
The following is the correspondence be-
tween the officers of the Republican Ma.
tional Convention and the candidates
thereof for President and Vice President:
CHICAGO, May ls, 1860.
To the Hon. Abraham Lincoln Of Illinois.
S1R:-The representatives of the Re.
publican party of the United States, as
Sc bled in Convention at Chicago, have,
this day, by unanimous vote selected
you as the Republican candidate for the
Office of President of the United States to
be supported at the next election; and the
undersigned were appointed COMMITTEE
of the Convention to apprise you OF this
nouipation, and respectfully to request
that you will accept it. A declaration OF
the principles and sentiments adopted by
the Convention accompanies this commu-
nication.
In the performance of this agreeable
duty we take leave to add our confident
assurances that the nomination OF the
Chicago Consc cntion will be ratified by the
sufFrsges of the people.
| We have the honor to be, with great
respect and regard. your friends and fell
low citizens.
Signd by Mr.. Ashmuu, President, and
IF Non Val
ton.
| MR.. LINcoLN's LETTER.
SPRINGFIELD, H., May %, 1850
HoN. GEORGE AsHMUN,
President of TIE Repwblican National Con-
Uentl0n.
SIR:-I accept the nomination tender
ed me by the Convention over which you
presided, and of which am formally ap-
priced in the letter of yourself and Others
acting as Committee of the Convention,
for that purpose.
The declaration of principles and sen.
tiuents, which accompanies your letter
meets my approval; and it shall be my
care not to violate, or disregard it, in any
part.
Implorinz the assistance Of Divine
, Providence; and with due regard to the
views and feelings of all who were repre-
sented in the Convention; to the rights o.
all the States, and Territories, and Peo
pie of the nation; to the inviolablIity o.
the Constitution, and the perpetual unioD
! harmony and prosperity OF all, am AZ os
happy to CO Operate for the practical sue
cess Of the principles declared by the Con
veution
: Your obliged friend and fellow citizen,
: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A similar letter was sent to tho nomi
nee for the Vice Presidency, to which til
following is the reply:
WASHINGTON, May 80, 1850.
GENTLEMEN Your official communi
y cation of the 18th instant, informing N
). that the representatives of the Republi
j can party Of the United States, assemble
at Chicago, OF that day. had by unan
'timous vote, selectcd ne as their caudi
ate for the Office OF Vice President of th
: United States, has been received. toseth
er with the resolutions adopted by tn
IS Convention as its declaration Of prinei
F. pies.
Those resolutions enunciate clearly an
forcibly the principles which unite US, an
u the objects proposed to be accoGnPli'hoc
Is They address themselves to all, and ther
it is neither necessity nor propriety in u
II entering upon discussion of any OF theu 4
They have the approval of ny judgmen
, and in any action of mine will be faitbfu
e ly aud cordially sustained.
IT | am profoundly grateful to those wit
&c WHOM, it is my pride and pleasure polit
:. caly to cooperate, for the nomination s
unexpectedly conferred; and | desire
tender through you, to the Convention
J. my sincere thanks for the confidence thu
It reposed in me. Should the nomination
4 which | now accept, be ratified By Ii
J people, and the duties de7olve upon u
of presiding over the Senate Of the Un
II ted States, it will be ny earnest endea'
ts or faithfully to discharge them with a ju
in regard for the rights of all.
1t is to be observed, in connection vii
the doings of the Republican Conyeutio
that paramount object with US is to pr
serve the normal condition Of our territ
rial domain as homes for free men. III
l. able advocate and defender of Republics
c, principles, whom you have nominated f
as the highest place that can CRAFTY the az
bition of man, comes from State whit
g has been made what it is, by special a
g ton in that respect, of the wise and GOO
30 men who founded our institutions. II
ce rights of free labor have thero been vi
of dicatcd and maintained The thrift ar
enterprise which SO distinguish Illino
one of the most fourisbing States of II
glorious West, we would see secured
a. all the Territories of the Union; and J
" store peace and harmony to the who
DO country, by bringing back the Cover
i ment to what it was under the wise al
g patriotic men who created it. IF the r
- publicans shall succeed in that object,
II. thoy hona IN thay will ha hold In ,rat