The national Republican., 1860-11-26
.TI0GAL REPUBLICAN.
|Repu,dcan Jubilee at Springfeld-Mr.
Minooln's Policy Foreshadowed.

|Repu,lcan Jubilee at Springfeld-Mr.
Zincoln's Policy Foreshadowed.
On Tuesday evening, the goth inst, Re.
publican celebration was held at Springfield,
Illinois, the home Of Mr.. Lincoln, pursuant To
previous arrangements. The meeting was
large and enthusiastic, and enlivened by
Wide Awake procession, Examinations, and fire.
works.
The procession marched 10 the residence Of
Mr.. Lincoln, and after repeated hearty cheers
for Honest Old Abe" the President elect
made his appearance, and spoke as follows;
FRIENDS AND FELLOW CITIZENS: Please ex.
cuse me on this occasion from making speech.
l thank you Cor the kindness and compliment
of this call. / thank you, in common with all
others, who have thought fit, by your votes, to
endorse the Republican cause. Applause
so far attended that cause. Applause. Yet,
in all our rejoicing, let US neither express
nor cherish any harsh feelings toward any citi.
zen who by his vote has differed with US.
Loud cheeriug.] Let us at all times remem.
ber that all American citizens are brothers Of
a common country, and should dwell together
in the bonds of fraternal feeling. Immense
applause. Let me again beg you to accept
my thanks, and to excuse me from further
speaking at this time.
The procession then marched to the Wig.
wan, where an immense concourse of people
were addressed by Senator Trumbull and sew.
eral other gentlemen. As Senator Trumbul's
speech, under the circumstances, is very rea.
sonably regarded as truly foreshadowing the
policy Of Mr.. Lincoln, we copy it in full from
telegraphic report in the New York Tribune
FELLOW CITIZENS: 1t is meet that Republi.
cans should make merry and be glad, for the
spirit Of liberty, which, with our rulers, was
dead, is alive again, and the Constitution, or.
dained to secure its blessings, which was lost
sight of, is found. In view Of the recent politi.
cal triumphs, Illinois Republicans have especial
reasons for congratulation. In common with
their political brethren throughout the Union,
they rejoice in the general result, which Sc
cures to the country a Republican President,
who, we trust aud believe, is to bring back the
Government to the policy of the fathers, and
listed between the different sections Of the coup.
try in the purer and better days of the Repub.
lie. In addition, they have the satisfaction of
having secured Republican Legislature, and
thereby Republican United States Senator,
and the power to enact the necessary laws to
prevent illegal voting, and to give to every part
of the State, according to the population, its
proportionate share in the legislation Of the
State. And, more than this, we lllinoisans
have especial reason to rejoice in the fact that
the standard-bearer in this great political con-
test, who has led the Republican hosts to vic.
tory, is our own fellow citizen, the pure, incor-
rhptible, patriotic, and talented Lincoln, than
, whom the Constitution in all its parts has not
"a more faithful supporter, nor the Union an
ADLER defender. But, while we rejoice over
victory so complete, let it not be by way of tri-
umph over political opponents, for we are all,
by whatever name called, brethren Of com.
mon country, and interested alike in so guiding
the ship Of State through the boisterous waves
Of these tempestuous times, as to bring it to
haven Of peace and safety. Rather let US re-
joice over the success of the principles we ad.
vocate, the maintenance Of which we believe
essential to the preservation Of our free institu
tions and the perpetuity Of constitutional lib
erty. Mr.. Lincoln, although the candidate Of
the Republican party, as Chief Magistrate, will
neither belong to that or any other party. When
inaugurated, he will be the President of the
country and the whole country, and doubt
not will be as ready to defend and protect the
State in which he has not received solitary
vote against any encroachment upon its con-
stitutional rights, as the one in which he has
received the largest majority while they by
whose votes he has been designated as Chief
Magistrate of the Republic will expect him to
maintain and carry forward the principles on
which he was elected, they know that in doing
so no encroachment will be made on the re-
served rights Of any of the States.
They know that the Federal Government is
one of delegated powers that it can do moth
ing except the authority for tht act can be
found in the instrument which created it, and
that all powers not conferred are reserved to
the States, or the people of the States. Hence,
when their political opponents have charged
them with Abolitionism, or attributed to them
desire to interfere with slavery in the States,
or some fanatic has insisted they ought to do
so, the reply has invariably been that the peo-
pie who made the Federal Government did not
think proper to confer on it such authority, and
1t has therefore no more right to meddle with
slavery in State than 1t has to interfere with
serid-.h IN Russia. Nor are the people of the
non-slaveholding States in any ray raoponsible
for slavery in the States which tolerate it. be.
cause, as to that question, they are as foreign
to each other as independent Governments. l
have lsbore6 in and for the Republican organi-
zation with entire confidence that whenever it
should be in power, each and all of the States
would be left in as complete control of their
own AFFAIRS respectively, and at as perfect lib
erty to choose and employ their own means of
protecting property and preserving peace and
order within their respective limits, as they
have ever been under any Administration
Those who have voted for Mr.. Lincoln have
expected and still expect this, and they would
not have voted for him had they expected other
wise. regard it as extremely fortunate for
the peace Of the whole country that this point,
upon which the Republicans have been so long