The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-05-23
THE BLACK REPUBLICAN CON-
VENTION.

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The grand pow-wow Of the black re-
publicans, in the great Wigwam, at "Chi-
cago," (Which being interpreted meaneLh,
in the Pottawatamic dialect, "Me place
of Skunks,") has closed its traitorous Or
gies. Tho sachems, great medicine men,
and prophets have exchanged wampum,
sung peans of praise to tho niger, and
decked out with the tomahawk and
plumes of an ostensiblo leadership
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. "Lo! the poor In
dianp
And now, until November dies away,
and hands out result in majorities and
minorities," the various tribes composing
that olla-podrida, called tho black repub-
lican party, will dance and yell through
tho Northern States their insane preten-
sions for the peace and prosperity of the
Union. A party whose claims upon the
respect of any considerable number of the
patriotic citizens of this Union, has been
owing to the sophistrios and intellect Of
WILLIAM ii. SEWARD, of New York,
have shamefully scalped him, and torn
from him his hearts desire and reward
left him to bleed and die-slain in the
house of his friends! Republicans are
magratetm. A party whose only consis-
tency is their subsection TO excitement,
bigotry and prejudice, have made them
selves laughing stock TO themselves, by
yielding to the clamorous pleadings Of tho
Suckers of Illinois. The Establishments
and fattery of Chicago blinded them
from their purpose, and while loudest in
their buster of nationality, were cajoled
and befooled into giving utterance to
purely local and sectional pressure.
If republcaniSm is embodied in any
one, that ono is WILLIAM Ii. SEWARD;
and while his silver-toned voice sounds
forth the wealth Of intellectual attain
ments-whilo gliding by matchless SEN
fences his sophistical reasonings-while
throwing around his disorganizng system
of governmental policy the halo of his
genius, all republicandom is mad with de-
yotion, and they cry as tho voice of one
man, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians p
But at Chicago, in the wigwam, not
even tho caustc sarcasm tauntingly given
tho party in the presentation of "a gaveP
to tho President Of the Convention, upon
which was engraved, "Don't give up tho
Ship" could norve them TO hold on TO
SEWARD but three Jallotings!
The wigwam, the suavity of the Board
of Trade, tho moderately low bills ut tho
hotels, the invitations from railroad Off
Gals 10 numberless free excursions over
tho prairios, tho full length portrait OF
"Old ABE" splitting rails, together with
The very atmosphere of Chicago (the place
of skunks), all combined and crowded up
on tho republican party by the stamping
and yelling of drove of LINCoLN-mad-
Suckers-all this, and only this, wc say,
oblitcrated every scmblance of a thought
for Mr.. SEWARD, and he was abandoned
for ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Of Springfield, IL
iinois, and HANNIBAL HAMLIN, Of Andres
coggin, away east, in Maine.
We suppose that scene is an illustra-
ton of the irrepressiblo conflict" and Of
which we shall hereafter consider them
tho exponent. With Mr.. SEWARD, to sing
siren song on national topics, and WEN
DELL PHILLIPS and WIN. LLOYD GARRI-
SON to let the cat out of the bag, we have
always doomed the black republican par
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And we opinc that the republican party
in Michigan, New York, and every other
State, excepting the State Of Chicago and
State of Illinois, will require very pecu-