St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-06-14
THE S Y. CLOUD DEMOCRAT
JANE G. SWISSHEIlM. EDITOR
Thursday, June l4th 1860.
Presidential Candidates,

Presidential Candidates.
Much as We may regret the defeat Of
Seward, we are willing to admit that the
nomination Of Lincoln is probably the best
that could have been made under the cir
cumstances. 1t is one Of the worst fca-
tuEes Of a Republican Government, that
the nen who have done the most to give
lone and permanance to its institutions and
whose genius commands respect and atten-
ton for it, from abroad, should be the FIRST
to suffer byits neglect: WIN. II. SEWARD
vas man Of known and tried Statesman
ship. lie was the recognized leader of the
Republican party. Whatever of strength
or,of prestige it may have, acquired in its
conflicts with the Slave Power, is due
mainly to his talents. His friends saw this
and the only wonder to them was, that the
country did not see it too. For years he
had cxpoundcd its principles. The leaders
CT that party were accustomed to adopt his
speeches as the standard Of round Repub-
lican doctrines. He had nobly defended
his country through its many perils.-
Through long public life he had proba.
bly, been morc consistent and had commit
ted less errors than any other Statesman
Of the age. It is not to be wondered at,
then, that the public expectations, cspe-
c;ally Of those who sympathizcd with his
political views, should have been sadly dis
appointed at the news of his defeat We
are, however, very well satisfied with the
nomination of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, al
though We think had some one been nomi-
mated from one Of the Slave holding States
for the Vice Presidency, it would have
avoided the charge of sectional!sm, which
was so successfully made in 1856, Not
that better man than HAML1N could have
been nominated OF. one more eminently
worthy Of that distinguished position, but
that since success must always enter more
or less into every political consideration, we
think it could have been more easily
achieved in the person Of some one less
objectionable. The nominees Of the Chi
cage Convention bring into the campaign
many strong points of availability. They
are men the record Of whose public acts
wonld not read moro favorably either by
erasures or interineation.s Their characters
for integrity and honesty of purpose are
unquestioned. All through the mad con-
dict Of 1858 when LINCOLN was the an
tagonist Of the gallant champion Of Popu-
lar Sovereignty in Illinois, no man was
found so during as to even charge him with
a*dishonorable action. That he has emf
nent talents for craftsmanship with an en-
larged political experience no one pretends
70 deny. That hetis man the sterling
qualities of whose heart will draw around
him hosts of admiring friends and the
eoundness Of whose judgment and the bril-
|iancy of whose intellect will enlist the
popular enthusiasm, there can be no rea-
sonablc doubt. He is emphatically man
Of the people. His :plebean> D. oriisin-hia
habits ofindustry-7 his sympathy with the
.laboring classes--his having demonstrated
inshis own persouthe nobility Of labor
l.. ,-s.
and from the simple God-givenl elements
Of health and a vigorous constitution, car
we'd out fortune complete in all its manly
proportions, will, when the facts come to be-
fully known, have their due force with The
millions Of President makers Of this Repub-
lie. The man who makes himself--de-
pending upon the simple powers Of his
own e1ertjons, achieves purer and nobler
fortune than the man whose greatness
comes by inheritance or is the necessary
concomitant Of his position. The former
is natural, the latter is an artificial pro-
duct. ABRAHAM LINCOLN is surely the
architect of his own fortune. He possesses
not one advantage to day which he is not
fully entitled to b!y his own exertions.-
His nomination for the Presidency can be
regarded in no other light than a compli-
ment to the laboring classesiot whom he
stands to day as the type and illustrious
representative. That he will receive al
most The entire vote of the laboring class
cs of the North, we think, there can be no
DOUBT, What Harrison was in 1910, Lin
coin, will be. in 1850. For 20 years the
Presidency has been, in the hands of Ar.
istocrats, and Of men whose professed sym
raa4bv 1u;th Tho naasaa Lna Loo,, f,1Iowo,d