Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-06-15

the ratification meeting held at Faneuil Hall,
Boston, May 25th. We wish We had the
necessary space to place the whole Of this
mastery speech Of Mr.. ANDREWS before our
readers; but as VIC have not, we must con-
| tent ourselves with the following choice gems,
which we clip here and there, without refer
ence to the connecting links. After describ-
ing the journey to Chicago, their reception,
the wiswam, speaking Of the platform, ballot
ings, ETC., he pays an eloquent tribute to Mr..
SEWARD, BATES, and others, and then says
"HoNEsT OLD ABE"--GoD BLESS HlMi
And then there was Abraham Lincoln of
Illinois enthusiastic chcering), the elect of
the heart of the young, ardent, aspiring, and
growing West, the first choice Of Indiana and
lllinois--hc who had made himself national
name and acquired reputation among the
first-class statesmen Of the Union, by the skill,
clogucnce, and power with which he managed
the Republican cause in that remarkable Illi-
nois Senatorial campaign against Judge Doug
las, in 1858. In the person Of Abraham
Lincoln, Cloud applausc) admitted by all
men to be an Israelitc in whom there is no
guile "a majority Of the Convention saw
| the best President and the best candidate.--
(Applausc.) He was the man in whom were
combined the qualities sought for, both by
| those whose first choice was Governor Sew
ard, by those whose first choice was Mr.
Bates, and by those whose first choice would
have been other distinguished, deserving, and
illustrious citizens. And, gentlemen, in the
face of such contestants, by the judgments of
such peers, as were the distinguished men
with whom | had the honor Of associating
upon the floor of that most able body, the
Chicago Convention, it was great compli-
ment to the character and reputation Of Abra-
ham Lincoln, as it was a proof of the spirit
of conciliation and love of justice, the fixed
and manly purposes of those who composed
that assomblage, that he received, on the
third ballot, vast majority of all the voices
Of the Convention. (Applause.)
TIE MORNING STARS SANG TOGETHER
Mr.. President and gentlemen, / have no
words with which to do justice to that occa-
sion. Language fails to describe scene
which, by any art of speech, is absolutely in
describablo. As the votes of one State after
another, upon the third balloting, were re-
ported and recorded, up through the roof of
the Wigwam, from the Secrctary's table,
there sped the silent-wingcd messenger which
communicated with the speed of lightning,
with every habitable part Of the continent on
which we dwell. ltrcportcd, first, to twenty
thousand enthusiastic Republicans outside
the walls; and when at last, the carefully
kept tally Of those who watched the progress
of the vote, perceived that the heart of the
West, had been filed and its cup Of rejoicing
crowned to the brim, and that the young,
loA, -
to be the STANDARDIZED Of the Republican
campaign of 1860, there rose a peal Of human
voices, grand chorus Of cxultation, the like
Of which has not been heard on earth since
the morning stars first sang together, and
the sons Of God shouted for joy. lEnthusi-
astic and prolonged applause.
LINcoLN's OLD FRIENDS.
They saw the sun Of new day rising with
healing on his beams. And from delegation
after delegation, beginning with that most
devoted band of men who sat behind the
men of Massachusetts, the associates of
Abraham Lincoln from the Prairie State Of
Illinois, and that other equally enthusiastic
and devoted body of men who supported him
from the start,-I refer to the delegation
from Indiana, where the, great statesman
served his apprenticeship in the business
which teaches him now with such effect, to
maui bastard Democracy,-I mean the split
ting of Indiana rails [checrs and laughtert--
there rose perfect storm Of applause, so
loud that know not how human voices
managed to send it up.
WHAT TIE SPEAKER SAW.
/ watched the men; for !, knew how,
through six days of toll and care, through six
nights of sleepless virgils, they had urged his
claims, they had told his story, they had vim
dicated the rights Of Indiana and illinois to q
chance for political redcmpticn-I knew how
carefully and watchfully they had done their
work. knew how their hearts were in the
work, and how every hope was centered in
his success. knew how those noble men
felt that upon the nomination and election of
Abraham Lincoln rested the ultimate political
salvation Of the Union which he loved, and
of the cause which VIC believe, under his
banner, will triumph. essa
watched their countenances- there
were grave and venerable old men, with hoary
hairs, on whose heads seventy winters had
spent their snows--thcre were brave and
stalwart men who had stood by the gallant
statesman Of Illinois in his fight against the
powers Of hell. Laughter and chccringl.-
There were glowing and enthusiastic young
men, who had sprung into the strife, ready
to lay their bodies in the breach if they could
have the hope Of a country and Of victory
And | watched their faces, as they stood be-
side me and saw, as a possibility Of the
success Of that nomination crept into their
minds, as the possibility grew, and buddcd
and ripened into probable success, as that
probability sprang, at last, into certainty,
and Abraham Lincoln, six feet four inches
high, stood confessed before ten thousand
men, as the candidate for Republicans Of
1860, l saw the blood mount to the temples
of old men, saw them rcj,venated, as it
wcrc, BY the spring Of another youth; and
up they stood, as by the motion Of one will
and the impulse of one heart they lcapcd to
the top Of the benches on which they sat, and
as by one motion Of one man, hats were swung
and thrown aloft in air, coats themselves
streaming like banners in tho brceze--thcrc
was the enthusiasm Of tho utmost triumph.
THE SWELL OF THE ANTHEM.
Maine, and Massachusetts, and Ohio, and
Connecticut, by their sides, took the infection
Of the moment, and then the whole Conven-
ton caught the impulse of the scene; and
rolling on, and rolling on, and rolling ON,
rose wave upon wave, and wave upon waye.
Of wild tuinultuous applause. I know not