The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-05-31

70 The Republican Electors Of Michigan.
The leaders of the Republican host
are now chosen. A Convention unequ.
allied in ability, unparalleled in har.
mony and enthusiasm : cheered by
such crowd of citizens from the
East. West, North and South, as never
before gathered at National Conven-
ton Of any party-has deliberately. af
ter cool and dispassionate consultation,
selected ABRAHAM LINCOLN, of Illinois,
and HANNIBAL HAMLIN, of Maine, to
be our standard bearers in the coming
contest. f......f.s ta,s F.9,Ia1es.,
/ The choice of the whole party was
not the first choice of Michigan. Our
State Convention had just rung with
unanimous plaudits for another name
under which to rally for the approach
ing conflict. The hearts of our Repub-
lican masses, in the field, and in the
workshop, was proud with the hope
that once at least, in the history of the
Republic, the success of great party,
and of the great man of the party and
the Nation, were to be mutually con-
sistent with each other. Adopted citi-
zens strove with those "to the manor
born" in the earnestness of their hopes,
and in their eagerness to be led to the
battle by WILLIAM H. SEWARD, of New
York.
But it was not to be so. Again has
great individual eminence and expert
ence as a statesman, had to yield to
make way for the success of greater
principles, and the man Of the age to
forbear for time his personal triumph
so nobly earned, that this country may
surely be saved from the corrupt ad-
ministration that now disgraces her at
home and abroad. Fr4ra ror
With the Convention at Chicago
its spirit and tone-its patriotism and
self-sacrifice for common cause, and
its honest purpose to select the very
best man for the crisis, the Republi-
cans, of all classes, are now more than
satisfied. 1t decided in its wisdom
that the young West alone could give
us the leader under whom victory was
certain; and not in all the valley of
the Mississippi, from St. Anthony's to
the Gulf, from the Alleghanies to the
western peak of Kansas, could they
have found more fit embodiment of
the exuberant vitality : the rude
strength, the open, cordial heart, the
straight forward honesty, manly firm
ness and intellectual vigor of the west
ern character-than in ABRAHAM LIN
coin, Of Illinois.
Representatives from almost every
township in The State, were present
with this Committee at the Convention,
and heard with pride and JOY, the gal
liant leader of our delegation second
his unanimous nomination as our Sec
ond choice /, and pledge the noble Pen
insular State for majority of $4,000
over the angry, tumultuous and divided
ranks of the Michigan Democracy.
That we may incite you to redeem
this pledge of our delegation, we adj
dress you at this time.
Our platform is full, manly, and
open. Read it and re-read it, and
commend it to every friend and neigh
Dor. Not one who has been with us
since "a can fail to approve the nation
al basis on which it resistant free
dom in the Territories and elsewhere
is to be the rule, and serUit,tde the rare
exception. So WASHINGTON and JET
FERsoN and all "our fathers" under
stood the constitution, and Senator
DOUGLAS has testified that GO our fathers
understood this question just as well,
and even better than we do now"
On this platform, too, thousands
among honest and thoughtful of our
opponents in the free North, and in the
very heart of the South, would rejoice
to stand and will stand, if prejudice
can be wiped away, and the links of
the old party chains be broken.
Our Candidates are representative
men, and peculiarly the representatives
of Michigan ,republicanism. They
stand as fifty and as firmly on our
platform as even the loved man of our
choice. One was foerlnrly an old line
Wing of the HENRY CLAY school, and
"hated slavery" from his birth-the
other like thousands among us, was
driven from the ranks of the so-called
Democracy by its cringing subservien-
cy to the slave power. The latter is
by character, ability and experience,
admirably fitted for the second position
to which he has been nominated; the