Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-07-06
ARRAmAm LINCnIN-

didate for Governor in Illinois, addressed a
mass meeting at Sprinfeld, the home of
Lincoln, on the 7th inst We regret that
we have not room to copy the whole of his
speech, which was lucid and forcible ex-
position of Republican principles but we
extract from it the following passage rola-
tive to Mr.. Lincoln:
'Now, fellow citizens, it may strike you
as rather a strange matter that the people
Of so great nation as this should come to
Illinois for its President that the mighty
) Republican party should look to this far
away Prairie State for its standard-bearer
in such momentous contest. Yet, l say
here to-day, that l have heard the great
men of this nation, North and South, East
and West, for four consecutive years in the
Hall Of the House of Representatives, and
in the Senate of the United States; have
heard the Stephens and Toombs of the
South, the Stewards, Chases and Corwins of
the North have heard the most re-
nowned orators on the floor of the Senate
and House, daily for years; and say here
to-day, that for clearness Of statement, for
penetration Of thought, for power of ire.
sistible logic, for broad, comprehensive,
statesmanlike views, for exalted purity of
private and public character, your own Abra-
ham Lincoln is the clearest, noblest, purest
and best of them ALL In the history of his
life-in all the elements which inspire with
enthusiasm the hearts Of the masses Of
mankind, and rouse the millions to action,
stand up here to-day, in this the capital of
the State, and in the presence of my coun-
trymen, to say that the name of Abraham
Lincoln is this day and hour the mghtiest
: name upon the continent of North Amer
lea. Prolonged cheers.
'My friend Green, who introduced me,
told me that the first time he ever saw
Lincoln, he was in the Sangamon River,
with his pants rolled up some five feet, more
or less, trying to pilot fiat boat over a
milldam. The boat had got so full of
water, that it was very difficult to manage,
and almost impossible to get it over the
dam. Lincoln finally contrived to get her
prov over, so that it projected few feet,
and there it stood. But he then invented
a new way of bailing fat boat. He bored
a hole through the bottom of the projecting
prov TO let the water run out, and then
= corked her up, and she launched right over.
Great laughter) think the Captain who
. proved himself so fitted to navigate the
broad-horn over the dam, is no doubt the
man who is to stand upon the deck of the
old ship, the Constitution and guide her
safely over the pillows and breakers that
surround her. Enthusiastic and prolonged
applause.)
81 said Lincoln was once poor boy
And is it nothing9 Is there no lesson in
his life to you fellow-citizens? Is not his
example and his achievement lesson to
the hopeful, the young and the poor? And
will you blame the people if they love their
own. He is the best friend of labor, who
himself has labored. He can best sympa-
thizo with the people in their wants. Is
the story of his life nothing? He is the
representative of the great idea of the Re-
publican party-labor-tree labor. The
representative of the genius of our free in
stitutions. A boy, the son of poor parents,
l.; himself poor, begins life unaided, save by
his own industry and genius, struggles on,
advancing step by step, through many years
of patient and earnest endeavor, until he
!; rises to that proudest of all human eleva-
tions, the Presidency of the United States
"What an example here is for our child
ren. Hereafter, the poor boy who follows
: him in his history as he leaves the State Of
: Kentucky at the age of SIX years, aud
grows up in Indiana, laboring faithfully
with his hands, going to Illinois and work
ing on step by step, until he becomes the
mighty statesman and honored chief of thir-
ty millions of freemen-as the poor boy of
D future years reads the story, he will feel
strange emotions in his breast, and deter
, mine to emulate the example of the noble
Lincoln. (Cheers.) The poor boy, the
: poorest of you, though his parents may be
!, humble, though he may have to face the
colds of Winter, and the Summers sun,
however poor he may be, in this land of
!, freedom, where the avenues to office and
success are open to all, he can point to
Abraham Lincoln and straighten himself
up and say, Il have the same right and the
same opportunity to be President as any
other boy
"Fellow citizens, the name of Abraham
Lincoln, which we present to you, is win
ming name--a name to rally on wherever
freedom requires a ehampiou-a name to
! boast of wherever you would point to an
honest man or patricia name to love
wherever affection would seek warm-heart-
ed and generous spirit-a name which is a
! spell to gather millions wherever free hearts
: and strong hands are to be summoned in
! favor of liberty and humanity" (Tremen-
dous applause.)
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