The Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1852-1872, 1860-06-16
The Chicago Nominations.

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had been nominated by the Black Republicans,
at Chicago for Presidents and that he had as
ISOLATED with him, for Vice President, Hannibal
Hamlin, of Maine, at present U. S. Senator.
This nomination was SO wholly unexpected
that the Republicans of this State appear to
have had the breath knocked clean out of them
for several days after its reception. Heretofore
California Republicans, in specializing as to the
probable nominee of the Chicago Convention,
never took Abe Lincoln into the calculation at
ALL Hence their extreme disappointment at his
success over their great leader, Seward, the
man who, with big buck negro for model,
moulded their party into its present shape and
breathed life into its deformed carcass.
| The nomination of Lincoln is accounted for
| bv the friends of Seward thus the Chicago
Convention thought Douglas would be defeated
at Baltimore, and that such defeat would secure
the entire North West for the Republican nomi-
nee if such nominee were citizen of that por-
ton of the confederacy.
The correspondent of the ST. Louis Republican,
writing from Chicago, says of the nomination
" The nomination of Lincoln in preference to
Seward, is thought here an acknowledgment of
the weakness of the Republican cause. The
personal friends of Trumbull are very indignant
He is owned to be of twice the ability of
Lincoln. The Douglas men are in the highest
spirits and now claim Illinois for Douglas by
1000.
The New Workers are mad as March hares
and swear they would as soon go for jeff Davis,
IL.
this third rate, rail splitting Lincoln, who al
lowed Douglas to put him to the wall two years
ago. They say they can't begin to carry New
York with Lincoln with the dead weight of their
abominable Legislature added. Bets are made
that Lincoln would lose New York by 10000
majority. Delegates almost afraid to go
back there, fearing the wrath of the people"
1t cannot be doubted that Stewards defeat
makes New York doubtful State Lincoln is
undoubtedly violent Republican, as black as
the blacklist, having been the first of that party,
two years ago, to announce the '' irrepressible
conflict doctrine, but he is not very popular
man in New York. Only few months ago he
was published by "Young Mems Republican
Club, of New York city, for charging them 5000
for delivering political harangue before them.
The society said it was contemplate I" dis
graceful and "mean" for an aspirant to the
Chicago nomination to charge fee for deliver
citation. The New York Republican club was
right. 1t was "mean" act.
But what better could the society expect of
a who, born in the South and raised there
to the age of manhood would then go North,
turn renegade, and, as de did in the very speech
delivered before the society, speak contemptu-
ously and dsrespectfully of the people of his
native State and section. Show US Yankee
who speaks contemptuously of New England, or
Southerner who sneers at the people of the
South, or a German who affects to despise "Fa-
derland,D or an Englishman who curses his ma
tive land and kindred, or an lrishman who
speaks disparagingly of his fellow countrymen
and disrespectfully of the green isle in whose
bosom lie his ancestors quietly sleeping-show
US such a man and we will point to him as one
whose heart IS black and who is capable of
turning traitor to his country who would if in
the place of Judas, like him have betrayed his
Lord and Savior for thirty pieces of silver.
Hamlin is also a deserter from the Democra-
cy. He remained with our party so long as it
retained the ascendancy in his State. When it
lost that ascendancy, it also lost Hamlin. He
followed in the track of the victors. With
Southern renegade and slanderer of the people
of his native State, for President, and rene
gade from the Democratic ranks for Vice Presi-
dent, nominated through the instrumentality of
such men as that notorious old Abolitonist
Josh Giddings, ct ID omne gsnus, the one-idead
and sectional Black Republican party is most
fifty captained. 1t is meet that a party whose
sole aim is to deprive the people of one section
of the Union of their rights in the Territories,
shall be led by political traitors and renegades.