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ChicOgo and Baltimore. Lincoln and
Douglas.

ChicOgO and Baltimore . -LincOlM and
Douglas.
From Forney's Press, May 10.
The Republican party, in convention at
Chicago, yesterday nominated Abram Lin
coin, of Illinois, as their candidate for Pres.
ident of the United States. There must
have been strong reasons which could have
induced, now, for the second time, the re-
lection of Mr.. Seward, and the nomination
of Mr.. Lincoln in bis place. These reasons
are obvious. The Charleston Convention
adopted the o.thirds rule-nOt twothirds
of the vote as originally intended, but two
thirds of the whole convention, from which
fifty delegates had already retired, and it
was therefore believed at Chicago that the
nomination of Mr.. Douglas at Baltimore
was impossible. MIR. Lincoln was the op-
ponent of Mr.. Douglas in the late contest
in the State of Illinois for Senator of the
United States. Mr.. Douglas was successful,
but with the aid of the Federal ofice+hold.
ers, who recently presented their discarded
delegates at Charleston, the contest was
extremely close aud doubtful.
From the facts above stated, it was bes
lieved by the Republicans that Mr.. Doug.
las could not be nominated at Baltimore,
and, therefore, that Lincoln would certainly
receive the eleven electoral votes of Illinois
in November next. Not only was this
calculation made with regard to Illinois, but
also in relation to Indiana, Ohio, and indeed
the whole Northwest. Lincoln was nomi-
mated on the assumption that Douglas could
not be nominated by the Democratic Con-
vention at Baltimore, and that if Douglas
were discarded, the whole sixty.six votes of
that region would certainly be given to Mr..
Lincoln.
1t will be recollected that in 1856 Illinois
and Indiana voted for the Democratic nomi-
nee-thus securing his election by the PEG.
ple-and the intention of the nomination of
Mr.. Lincoln is to withdraw these States,
together with the whole Northwest, from
the support of the Democratic party in 1860.
1t remains to be seen whether the Baltimore
Convention will profit by the facts to which
we have alluded, and, by rejecting the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Douglas, insure the election
of Mr.. Lincoln. 1t is now quite clear that
if Mr.. Douglas, as was believed at Chicago,
should be discarded by the Baltimore Con-
vention, Mr.. Lincoln's election may be re>
garded as certain. Mr.. Lincoln has, perhaps,
gone farther than the Republican platform
of 1856 against the States of the South.
The great battle between Mr.. Lincoln and
Mr.. Douglas in the late Senatorial contest
in Illinois, was on the doctrine that there
was, in reality, an irrepressible conflict be-
tween the slave States of this Union and
the free States; that all must ultimately be-
come slave States or free, and that the
whole moral and political power of the Gov.
free States. This Mr.. Douglas denied, con-
tending that in the future, as in the past,
from soil, climate, productions. and other
causes, there might continue to be slave
States as we'll as free States, and that neither
the moral nor the political power of the
Government should be used to favor one or
the other. His doctrine was non.interven>
ton by Congress, in States or Territories,
and the problem might be left in the future,
as in the past, to that solution which time
and circumstances would produce. He,
(Mr. Douglas,) believed that a perpetual
union between the slave States and the free
States was practicable. 1t was denied by
Mr.. Lincoln, and this was the great con-
trOversy between them, in which Mr.. Doug
las was successful.
But it is now quite certain that if Mr..
Douglas be rejected by the Democratic
convention at Baltimore, Mr.. Lincoln will
sweep Illinois, Indiana, and the whole
Northwest, and his election by the people
becomes, perhaps, foregone conclusion.
One thing is sure, and must be known to
the Baltimore Convention, and that is, that
with Douglas they can triumph; and that,
with any other candidate, defeat is almost
inevitable. What the result may be time
will determine. The seceders and disunion-
lists who retired from the Charleston Con-
vention would, most assuredly, prefer the
election of Republican President rather
than the success of Douglas; but whether
this factious, personal opposition can control
the masses of the people of the southern
States remains to be seen. 1t is not doubted
that large majority of the delegates from
the South refused to secede, and will sustain
Mr.. Douglas if nominated.
YANCEY WON'T GO BACK.-WM. L.