Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-08-24
NUMBER II.


palm of frankness. He had no diseuises.
The subject of Southern slavery was
touched upon, and Mr.. Lincoln emphati-
cally declared that it was bis principle not
to touch it where it exists, but to prevent
its spread into Territories now free. He
spoke of slavery as an institution that did
not meet the universal sanction of the
Southern people. Public opinion is not
always private opinion he said and in
stancing Lamartine's account of the exc
cution of Louis XVI, wherein it appeared
that, although the leading revolutionists
were publicly obliged to declare in favor
of that deed, they were privately opposed
to it. He said that it was the same with
many people in the South they were
obliged to sustain slavery, although they
secretly abhorred the institution. He
would protect the South in its institutions
as they exist, and said that Southerners
did not comprehend the position of the
Republicans in regard to slavery. The
Southern mind, he said, was laboring un-
der the delusion that the Republicans
were to liberate the Slaves, who were to
apply firebrands to the fields and dwellings,
Of their masters, massacre old and Young
and produce anarchy and bloodshed
in the south. He swept this assumption
away by decisive denial of its correct
ness. He said he should like to 90 South
and talk to the Southerners on this topic,
were it not that the minds of some were
so infamed against him that they would
not listen to his reasoning, but on the 9TH
er hand, might be inclined to infict Lynch
Jaw upon his person should he appear
among them.
The conversation was lively, and occa-
sonally interspersed with some brilliant
flashes of wit and good nature from the
Kentucky lady, his wife. a..
HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
Mr.. Lincoln's personal appearance has
so often been described in the newspaper
prints that it is unnecessary for me to enlarge
upon it here; but as great deal has been
said about his uglness will say word or
two on that score, if only for the purpose
of eniisting the attention of the ladies
North and South Men of the West may
care for personal beauty in woman, but in
a man beauty constitutes a very small
claim upon their regard. But Lincoln is
not an ugly man. His features may appear
rugged to the casual observer, but when
engaged in earnest and entertaining con-
versation they assume an aspect at once
pleasing and engaging. Many men called
handsome by bellies lack expression in
their features when in conversation, where
as the man of genius telegraphs his mind
to others not only by his language, but by
the masculine charm of facial expression.
Else how could Lincoln have courted and
welded so charming young lady as she
whose realm is now his domestic hearth?
If Lincoln ever gets inco the White House,
you may be bound for it that there will be
thousands of beauties from all parts of the
country who will acknowledge that the
pictures and the prints have sadly belied
him, and that his cheek bones arc not so
large, that his mouth is not so big, that
his figure is not so lank, as they have been
led to imagine, and that altogether he is
not far from being tall, good-looking,
middle-aged gentleman, who has Offices at
his disposal.
VIEWS OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER
GROWN FAT IN WASHINGTON.
Among all the candidates for the Pres
ideney of the United States now in the
field, Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, seems
to be regarded by the people here as the
only one who presents the appearance, en-
phatically and literally, of the man of the
people. Without ostentation, without re-
serve, without any of those exquisitely po-
lite attentions one finds in the man of the
world, and especially in the aspiring poll
tician, nurtured in the patrician atmos-
phere of Washington, Lincoln both looks
the man, acts the gentleman, and mirrors
at once the keenness of the astute states
man and the frmness of the rigid execu-
tive officer. The people say they have
long wanted President free from the cor
ruptions which a long official residence at
the seat of ofgovernment is calculated to en-
tail, and from what ] have heard and seen,
within the space of a few months, ma
jority of the people of the North, and not
a few at the South, are satisfied that in
Lincoln they have found a man who comes
nearer to representation of their ideas in
this respect than any other named candi-
date. Presidents Harrison and Taylor
good men in their good way-did not, it
is true, vegetate in the hotbed of Washing
ton political influences; but unfortunately,
they both soon withered and died under
them, after brief occupancy of the Presi-
Dental chair. But Harrison and Taylor
were old; and one was superannuated be-
fore he assumed the reins of government,
and the other became so shortly after he
did. Lincoln is in the prime of life and
vigor-as strong, 1.-THE, and as energetic
as almost any public man of his age, and
showing in his features, his movements and
manners, his intellect, his knowledge of
law, government, and the organic rules
that sway men and found systems, eviden-
ces that he cannot be easily swerved from
purpose be conceives just to his country
men. That's what his friends say.
FLoRTIcULTURE 1T is said that Ex-
Mayor Tiemann at his paint factory in
Manhattanville. has accidentally made a
discovery which thteaten to reyolutiopjzo
horticulture. One of the factory hands
having thrown some liquid green paint of
particular kind on a fower-bed occupied
by white anemones, the petals as green as
grass, The paint had in it a peculiar and
very penetrating chemical mixture, which