Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1860-06-06
NOMINATION. or LINCOLN.

The following truthful article Id Feia~
tion 10 the nomination of Lincoln BY the /
Republican party We clip from the New
York Herald.
The conduct Of the Republican party in
this nomination Is remarkable indica-
ton of small intellect, growing smaller.
They pass over Seward, Chase and Banks,
who are statesmen and able mens and
they take up fourth rate ssctureFy who
cannot speak good grammeT, sud who, 10
raise the wind, delivers his haekneyeds
illiterate compositions at 500 piece
Our readers will recoilect that this per
ipatetic politician visited New YORK two
or three months ago on his financial tour,
when, in return for most unmitigated trash
iuterlarded with coarse and clumsy jokes,
he filed his empty pockets with dollars
coined out Of Republican fanatiGism. Ii
after be becomes President of thu United
States the public finances should fail, he
can set out upon q lecturing mission
through the country, taking Horace Gree
lev along with him. Hemay thus replen-
ish q collapsed treasury. If the people
will not exchange their loose dimes for
the instruction or the pleasure derived
from his eloquenec, they may be induced
10 part With some Of their cash in the
cause of patriotism, and to save the ma
ton from bankruptoy-an event which 10
very likely to happen If the Republicans
get hold Of the nation's purse.
The only other thing for which Lincoln
has been distinguished besides his timer
ant lecturing, Il his defeat by Douglas In
his own State. at q time when the ticket Of
the Republican party had Eve thousand
majority over the Democracy in illinois,
In his anti-slsvery opinions he Is the most
ultra and revolutionary Of all the candi-
dates whose names were introduced NJ
Chicago; and in the campaign in which
be was beaten he gave uttsrance to the
most violent sentiments, and went into
the irrepresgible conflict before Seward
himself.
At such q nomination the Democrats
| have good reason to rejoice. They have
a clear road now before them, and moth
| ing ean arrest their onward march to
victory IL they are only true 70 them
selves. Their stars are luckier to them
than they deserve. They have the game
in their hands, If they will suppress their
| insane quarrels and unite upon single
candidate, be be Douglas, Dickinson OF
Lane, but not Guthrie, Hunter OF Breck-
| inridge, or any Southern man. The can
didate must he man who viii run In the
| Middle States, and ha must be taken with.
out any platform On his former record In
| regard to the South. There ia no need
of any platform. The Republicans have
made the issue, aud that must be met NOS
by sidewinds or distractions, but by q
direct negative. Their principles involve
the dissolution of the Union. Their pol
| ioy il to overthrow the institutions Of the
| South. by force or fraud, by legislation in
violation Of the Constitution, or, If neeea-
sary, by hre and sword, In the face OF THU
formidable position, to split hairs ahoui
squatter on popular sovereignty IN dis.
tant Territories, is like Nero addling
while Rome was burning, or the marin
eEs In q gallant ship digpuking about hel
measurement, or what ought to be tht
| form Of her rig, while the vessel faaI
drifts On lee Shore 70 the imminsui
peril Of all % board. II those who an,
dertake to navigate, the Democratic par,
tv will abandon from this moment then
sensalaas jargon, and set about workins
the ship as practical men, they Will weakh'
"a the storm and make their destined port
in safety. By the discontinue of Seware
at Chicago, and the nomination Of such 1
man M Linooln, even the State cf New
York, with its thirty kys votes, Ii lost h
Rapublioanisnl, and with Ii sha HOSES
which they cherished, IL the Democracy
know bow b take advantage ct the blum.
der thai haa been made, and rasly around
. single banner, inscribed With shase
words sUnised we stand, divided vi