The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-07-28
GREAT SALT LAKE CITY. SATURDAY. July 2s. lseo.


Il 1876 and served till 1870 while in
4 congress the Wilmot proyiso warfwc was
4 IN progress, and which disturbed the peace
4 and harmony OF the country. untiIit shook
the foundation Of the Union from lis cen!
TIRE to its circumference. lie voted forty.
tive times for the proyis0 He was also
active IN connection with Seward, Chase,
i Giddings aud other aholitionists Id the
agitation Of that subject. He also op.
posed the Mexican war, and declared Il
Unconstitutional and wrong. and voted
against the bill granting 100 acres 81 land
/ TO the volunteers. III the National Con
yention Of 1S4s, Of which he was d mem.
Der, he advocated the nomination Of Ge-
neral Taylor, and sustained the nomina-
tton BY o canvass Of his own State. In
1852 he was efficient iii his efforts for
General Scott, and was considered BY che
wings Of Illinois and the Northwest as
one Of their leaders. Front S40t TO 1854
MI. Lincoln was engaged IN The practice Of
his profession. in lS49 he was candi-
date before the Illinois Legislature for
United States Senator, prior to which he
stamped the State for the wings. When
the Legislature met the democfasy was IN
the majority, and General Shields, the
democratic candidate, was elected. In
1855 he was again the candidate Of the
wings for United States Senator before
the Legislature chosen that year; but che
democracy being IN the majority, Lincoln
was again defeated, and Judge T'rumbulI
the democratic candidate, elected III
/ 1856 Mr.. Lincoln's name headed the Free
mont electoral ticket in Illinois. In1S5s
y was the desire Of the Illinois Republi7
can State Committee to have Mr.. Lin.
coin succeed Douglas in the United States
Senate, and to effect this he stnmped the
state for the republicans; and It was DUR
ing this campaign that Mr.. Lincoln made
the best political speeches Of his life, and
from Which the people Of the Union viii at
once read his sentiments on the great ques.
tons Of the day, Heis q tariff mon; in
.favor Of protective policy opposed to the
bred Scott decision, urging as an especial
reason for his position that il depriyes the
negro Of thesrights Of that clause in tho
constitution Of the United States which
guarantees to the citizens Of each State
all the rights, privileges and inlmnnities
Eof the several States. in the campaign
lin Illinois in 1858, when be Stumped the
State in opposition TO Douglas, he showed
himself an adept in political strategy,
and suited his speeches to the locality In
which be spoke. In one county lie would
preach one set Of principles, and a differ
ent and contradictory set in other coun-
ties. He is no orator, statesman or legis-
lator, but is classed among the stump
speakers Of the Tom Ford stamp. Mr..
lincoln was comparatively unknown to
the people, Of this section Of the Union
until during the past winter, when be
made a tour Of the Middle and New Eng
land States, delivering political stump
speeches at twenty-five cents per capita
admission. He delivered a speech in the
| Cooper Institute, which he evidently pre-
pared for the newspapers; but OH the
night Of the lecture he interspersed it
with radical republican sentiments, fully
as. REASONABLE as Seward's 'irrepressibfe
conflict" doctrine. He realized Two hun
hdred dollars from this lecture. He next
visited Connecticut and stumped that
State for the republicans. The fact Of
his charging an admission fee to his lee
tureS-ra thing unknown before in our po-
litical history-was the subject Of com
nient among leading republicans, and III
several Instances received the reblkc
which such political showmanship de-
served. - Z. r ia. 81 .,.
.~5s HANNIBAL HANLIE, OF MAINE.
Hannibal Hamiin, the candidate for
Vice President, was born in Paris, Ok
ford County, Maize, August 81, 1909; il
aiawyer BY profession; was a member Of
the Maine Legislature from 1886 to
1870; was electeda representative TO the
,Twenty-eighth Congress, and was re-
elected to the Tweaty.ninth Congress;
was q member Of the House OF Represen-
tatiyes Of the State Legislature in IS47,
and elected to the United States Senate
May 20, fS4S, for four years, to ell q
vacancy oeeasioned by the decease Of
John Fairfield He was reelected fer
six years, July IS, 1851, and elected Go
sverpOr OF Maine January u 1891, resign
ing his seat in the Senate and being inaJl-
gurated Governor the same day. On the
sixteenth of the same month he was re-
elected United States Senator for six
years, and resigned the Office Of Cover
nor February 20, 1857. He is now a
United States Senator for Maine, and a
member OF the Committee on Commerce
and on the District OF Columbia. MIR.
Hamlin was formerly a democrat, but
prior TO his election as G oyernoro of Maine
he changed his politics very suddenly IN a
speech in the Senate on the Nebraska
bill. and after that attached himself to the
republican party, and succeeded TO the
Goyernorship by the votes and support Of
that party. . r. -zs.='S.sg.,5e3 .st.' = r. .
- A coNTENTED FARMER.
49, 80, -F- a.. 49, :. a.-.... - --r
nk..r ,,,,.s, Z. a.. E..a...-L IL VI