Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-01
whnt southern Papers Say Of Lincoln.


What Southern Papers say Of Lincoln.
The Louisville Journal, Bell and Everett
organ of large circulation and inhuenence,
bears the following voluntary testimony:
The Republican organs, by common con-
sent, designate their candidate for the Presi-
dency as Honest Old Abe" We are by no
means disposed to deny his right to the desig-
nation We know him personally and have
observed his public course, and however strong
IL We may condemn some of thedoctrines to
which he is committed, we have at no time
seen reason to doubt his honesty We believe
that he has the good Of his country at heart.
Thus much we take pleasure in saying in his
behalf
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, a lead
ing Georgia Journal says that ''the Chicago
ticket is confessedly very strong one, and
Lincoln, a rough specimen of the Western
Hoosier, win sweep the NORTHWEST like a
herd of wild buffalo on the prairies. Against
all comers we consider him certain to carry
Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota,
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu-
sets, and New York-IO8 votes" The bat
tie field, our Southern cotemporary thinks,
will be the States of Pennsylvania and New
jersey.
The Paris Citizen, a Kentucky opposition
paper, speaks of Mr.. Lincoln as man of abil-
ity, of great natural force Of intellect, and
adds;
We heard one of the discussions between him
and Douglas in the famous campaign of 1858,
and we certainly regarded him as a full match,
at least, for that distinguished politician
There are some things in the personal char
acter and career of Mr.. Lincoln which will
give him great popularity, if they do not ex-
cite enthusiasm among the people. Born Of
humble parentage, and passing the years Of
his childhood youth and early manhood amid
the hardships of the backwoOds Of fKentucky,
Indiana and Illinois acquiring an education
by his own labors as best he could, andgrad-
ually working his way to distinction, his life
has been one well calculated to excite the ad-
miration and sympathy Of voters, most Of
whom are themselves working men. When
10 this is added the purity Of his private life,
the general recognition of which has given
him, in bis own State, the soubriquet Of
"Honest Old Abe, we are compelled to ad-
init that the Chicago Convention has nomi-
mated the very hardest man to beat that it
could possibly have given us.
The Baltimore Patriot a leading opposition
Journal of Maryland, speaks in high commen,
dation of the character and talents of Mr.. Lin
coin, and says that though opposed to exten-
tension of slavery into free territory, just as
Mr.. Clay was, yet he is State-rights man of
the strictest sect. The Patriot adds:
He is also the sworn enemy of Executive
and Legislative corruption, and has a charac-
ter for personal integrity unimpeachable-
His popular sobriquet is, "HOnest Old Abe y
There can be little donbt, but that this man
Of the working people, the artiiicer of bis own
fortunes from poverty to competence, from
the lowest to the highest position, will meet
with the cordial sympathies of the laboring
masses every where, whether they support
him politically or not.
The Patriot also says it has been Informed
by of the delegates to the late Chicago
Convention that the Committee who were
appointed to convey to Mr. Lincoln the Off
cial notice his nomination as their candidate
for President, repaired to Springfield, H., in
the fulfllment Of this duty. He stated that
Mr. L. resides in a comfortable mansion in
the suburbs of the city, and as the Committee
proceeded to his residence, they attracted much
attention. His neighbors, knowing that Mr..
Lincoln was a strictly temperance man, at
once dispatched their servants with walters
covered with bottles of wine, brandy, whisky,
&C., to enable him to offer what they con-
ceived was proper to these distinguished
guests. Mr.. Lincoln met the servants who
had the charge of these refreshments, and re-
quested them to say to his friends and neigh
bors that he duly appreciated their kindness,
but be could not consent to violate a long
established rule of conduct, and that be should
treat bis guests with plentiful draughts Of
deliciOs and pure ice lDdter.