The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-06-02

raised by his own genius and integrity
from the humblest to the highest position,
having made for himself an bonored name
as a lawyer, an advocate, popular orator,
a statesman, and a MAN, the industrious
and intelligent masses of the country may
well hail his nomination with swelling
tide of enthusiasm, of which The wild and
prolonged outbursts at Chicago yesterday
are the fitting prelude and beginng."
"HANNIBAL HAMLlN. Hannibal Ham1in,
who was nominated last evening by the Re-
publican Convention at Chicago for Vice
| President, was born in Paris, Oxford coun-
| ty, Maine, in August, 1909. and is now in
the 51st year of his age. He is by pro-
sfession a lawyer. but for the last twenty
/ four years has been. for much of the time,
| in political life. From 1886 to 1870 he
was member of the Legislature of Maine,
and for three ST those years be was the
Speaker of its House of Representatives.
In 1843 he was elected member of Con-
gress, and re elected for the following term.
| In 1847 he was again member of the
| State Legislature, and the next year was
chosen to fill a vacancy, occasioned by the
death of John Fairfield, in the United
States Senate In 1851 he was reelected
for the full term in the same body,
but resigned on being chosen Governor of
Maine in 1857. In the same month he was
again elected to the United States Senate
for six years, which office he accepted, re-
signing the Governorship. He is still a
member of the Senate. This record is an
evidence of the confidence with which he
has always been regarded by his fellow-cit-
liens in Maine.
Cup to the time of the passage of the
Kansas Nebraska bill in 1854, Mr.. Hamlin
was member of the Democratic party
That act he regarded as a proof that the
party, with which he had been all his life
connected, no longer deserved the name oil
Democratic, and was treacherous to the
) principles he had so long cherished
Thenceforward he gave his support to the
Republican party, of which he has ever
since continued faithful and distinguished
leader.
"Mr. Hamlin is man Of dignifed pres
ence. of solid abilities, of unf1inching in
tegrity, and great executive talent. Famil
lar with the business of legislation, he il
peculiarly adapted, by the possession of al
; these qualities, to gil benefcially for tn,
country, and to his own and his party
honor, the high post for which he has beer
nominated. The name of Hannibal Ham
lin of Maine is fit second to that of Ab-a
ham Lincoln of Illinois,"
I WHAT THE ST. LOUIS DEMOCRAT SAYS.
''The platform adopted is faultless.
comedies everything to the conservative
sentiment of the country that is consistent
with a just appreciation of its true inter
ests. 1t is a positive declaration of princi
pies; not like that of Baltimore, a senseles:
mass of words, but plain, direct enuucia
ton of well defined principles. We regard
the movement to nominate Judge Bates as
the foundation of the Chicago platform
1t certainly developed the necessity of mod
Grafton, and an avoidance of radical views
or hair splitting distractions like those on
which the National Democracy divide
Had different course been taken, the NOM
ination of Seward or Giddings would have
been inevitable, and we set it down as evil
dence of great political wisdom, to respect
the present conservative position of the
country. 1t is safe to say that the policy
of that Convention will be the policy of the
party everywhere, including Missouri
Without it the Opposition would have been
fierce and uncompromising, but with The
ticket and platform given US at Chicago nc
fault can be found. 1t is tower oil
strength, and it now behooves every man
in the West to put forward his best endeav-
or to swell the required majority as many
thousands as possible
WHAT THE CHICAGO DEMOCRAT SAYS.
ga better man could not have been Sc
lected than Senator Hamlin 'to..run' with
Mr.. Lincoln; for whilst Mr.. Lincoln is an
Old Line Wing of the Henry Clay school.
Mr.. Hamlin is an Old Line Democrat of the
jackson school. When Lincoln was in the
House of Representatives, Hamlin was in
the Senate. They were then considered
political aDtipodes, although agreeing on
the slavery question. Mr.. Hamlin was
elected to the Maine Legislature as soon as
he was old enough to hold seat therein.
He soon distinguished himself as the cham
pion of the Jacksonian policy. He was
elected to Congress in 1843, where he
served two terms, and distinguished HIM
self as an out and out Silas Wright Demo
Graf. We always met him in private con-
sultation with such men as King, Wilmot,
DC, to devise means for the passage of the
/ WIlmot Proiyso; for in those days it was
not anti-Democratic to oppose the extern
sion of slavery.
"Mr. Hamlin took his seat in the Senate
in the Thirteenth Congress, where he con-
tinuet until 1856, when he was elected
Governor of Maine by the largest majority
ever given to any person who had opposi-
/ ton, viz: 1891. Before his term as
Governor expired. he was reelected to the
Senate. of which body he is now conspie-
uous member.
'.Mr. Lincoln could not have a better man
upon the ticket with him, and should Lin
coin die, his robe could pot fall upon bet
ter man.
'Mr. Hamlin, in personal appearance,
looks much like Lincoln, although not SO
tall. But he is little darker skinned. Al
though not so philosophical speaker as
Lincoln, he is a far more effective one, be-
| fore mixed audience. Whilst Lincoln is
very charitable in his views of his fellow
men, and is often liable to be imposed upon,
from his disposition to consider everybody
as honest as himself, Hamlin is a very
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