The new era., 1860-06-07
' FOR PRESIDENT, q sd' I.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
sn-s OF ILLINOIS. ia
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
8 HANNIBAL HAMLIN,

Ii would De aHectdtl0n In US " ucHy
our unfeigned disappointment in the de-
feat of EDWARD BATES at the Cbicagol
Convention. He was our choice, forI
reasons which need not here be stated.
We believed with Horace Greely,
that he would have made President
worthy of the best days ofthe Republic
We feel little over his failure there,
as the friends of Mr.. Seward do We
his, except not to malign those who differ
with US. But we remember, meanwhile,
that National Convention implies al
ways the disappointment of some All
cannot be consulted. We must accept
the judgment Of the Convention as bet
ter than that Of t'ae individual. NJ
We haTe not been, at any time in
our life, political partizan, and hope
ave never shall be, only in so far as it
promotes the national good. All we
desire is, that the government should be
administered on just principles. such'as
will insure the happiness and welfare of
the people. But in order to this, we
believe must be taken from the iniquit
Gus power now enthroned at the Cap
ital and placed in other hands. In
whose
We have carefully read the Chicago
platform. We find in it no insult to the |
South--we find it advocates the faithful
maintenance Of State Rights--we find
it promises security to the domestic
institutions Of each separate sovereignty
of the Confederacy. The fourth reso-
luton is as follows 't-Haoi
That the maintenance inviolate Of the rights Of
the States, and especially. the rigcts of each
State to order and control its own domestic insti-
tutions according its own judgment exclusively, is
essential to that balance of powers on which the
perfection and endurance Of our political fabric
depends; and we denounce the lawless invasion
by armed force ofthe soil Of any State or Terri
tory, no matter under what pre:ext as the grayest
OF crimes, ,atg.r..h sffr .u.,+ .-at7-
This is sufficiently emphatic. All ma
tional men can stand there there is
room enough.
Opposed to the extension of slavery,
we are. ready to aid in the adop-
sion of any Constitutional plan to re-
strict it to its present limits. In the
great army organized to dethrone the
present administration, and to facilitate
the advancement Of free labor, and free
soil, every worker cannot be expected
to think alike. We are not quite able
to sympathise with the doctrine that
the people Of 1.-The Territories cannot
determine the character of their own
institutions, yet we infinitely prefer it to
the other, which demands a slave code
forcing slavery upon the people, wheth-
er they want it or not; and as it ap-
pears that one or the other must prevail,
we cannot hesitate as to our course
So while we differ on that one point in /,
the platform, it is, as whole, so just.
so fair, so reasonable, so consistent with, i,
the integrity Of the States, that we
cheerfuliy accept it, and place at the
head of our columns the names of LIN
colin and HAMLIN, for the Offices ofIa
President and Vice President of the q
United States. Biographical sketches h
of both candidates appeared in our col
umns last week. isai95Qo .suastsjzty 10
We shall give the Platform entire in r
ournext issue. g. al44Dd saa ,e9a9Ay'aP :