New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-24
MIR. LINCOLN,s ABILITIES.

The following article from The. Philadelphia
Erening Journal sums up so completely all that
has been put forth in disparagemert of Mr.. Lin
coins qualifications for the Presidency, that we
print Il entire, in order that readers may have
the whole case before them. Hear The Journal:
WHY SHOULD LINCOLN BE PREsIDHST.-lt is very
evident that the Republican newspaper are hard put tot for
man is BLANK he has nothing whatever in
Judicial capacity that 'hoad e m bs h% a1 to
e,hbtion intellectual ability and attsinnen fitting hi@ for
the b9 1nS sRCS Wien S IN ' ceue o@ t to @ he
was not only distinguished by display Of
Congress iheult remember that such person
Abraham LmeS occupied seat on asG moor .. n,s ss,ss
Senator from Illinois is the beginning of his fame, and
while he showed in that controversy the rough strength
Of paeticed stump speaker and pluck Of champion
who the ring with crowd Of sturdy backer ne exceeded
s1sSy onenn while his coarse language his tato style
bis vulgar and vupeatve personalities IN debate cont
senator from New York But the party think Lincoln
IS lS ad% Now we have great and
sincere respect for what dcnonnated semsde mentor
who .pingng from obscure condition, and struggling
Of natural character and heroic efforts 70 rise to honorable inde
merit Of having made good Of his opportunities and
aud should like him enjoy all the just rewards OF HI.
there il proper measure Of desert in these which
IN uld not be dsregaIded i does not by any means
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boamen and woodehoPper raises himself to the patton Of
tFeoTe quslhed be President Of the United States There
is no fitness proportion between the two ho
conferred 1t much more wise and logical to put the PROPOSE
ton thus man is IN oil essential respects, emineny fitted
or the Presidential ONCE the fact that he boatman
and rails greatly his credit but ii viii do
say 1t he sguahedO be and deserves TO be President be
Mississippi the Republican" newspaper organs
tie roulte in the latter onn In order TO suit the
Of their candidate shall doubles. be asked adopt
safe and ndiciou' rule Tor the election OF men TO The highest
posts in the Government But viii the people be cheated by
such claptrspl We think not.
ing considered both, we shall be able to form
pretty accurate judgment Oh the matter OF issue.
Ponder, them these undeniable facts:
i. Mr.. Lincoln was born in the very humblest
walks of life, and was left in extreme poverty by
the death of his father when he was but six years
Of age. He never enjoyed the advantage of wealthy
or powerful relatives. He had very little schooling
of any kind-none but in the rudest log cabins of
the frontier forests. He has'had no special good
luck, and, since he ceased to be very poor, has
lived on his own moderate earnings, never having
known what it is to be rich. And yet this man
has Just been nominated for President over the
heads of several cOnct dedy, eminently able
and worthy men who were his competitors. Is
there not in these facts solid basis for the pre-
sumption that he is man OF unusual ability
2. His life-battle has been fought under many
extraneOus disadvantages. The State wherein all
bis years of manhood have transpired has been
steadily opposed to him in politics. 1t was over
whelmingly for Jackson; he was against him. 1t
resisted the Harrison tornado, which swept all be-
side of the Free West-all but his and one other
New Hampshire) Of the Free States-all but seven
States in the entire Union. 1t steadily opposed
Clay and Taylor, whom he as steadily supported.
II never elected United States Senator opposed
then Mr.. Lincoln was the 6rst choice ofnine.tenths
of the Opposition; but he and these ninetenths
were Wings, while the residue were anti Nebraska
Democrats, who disliked to vote for Wing, and
presented Judge Trumbull; 80 the Whigs-at Mr.
LincOln's earnest entreaty-went over to Judge L.
ard elected him. sit likely that the Whigswould
have unanimously selected an inferior man to send
on their very first chance to the Senate, over the
heads of such men as o. II. Browning, Jackson
Grmshaw, Richard Yates S. T. Logan, and many
other steadiast champions Of their cause, who GER.
tainly are not inferior menl What would have
been their motive for 40 perverse choice
3. Mr. LincOlns rise has been gradual and
steady At twenty three years of age, having vol
unteered for the Black Hawk war, he was chosen
captain Of his company. Having been previously
q Hat-boat man, rail-splitter, Farmland and q
store-clerk, be became next land-surveyOr, and
followed this vocation till tho grand crash Of 1887