Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-05-24
Speech of Hon. Hannibal HamIIn on the An
nOuncement of the Nomination.


nOuncement frhe Nomination.
Mr.. Hamhn, the Republican candidate for
the Vice Presidency, was in Washington
when the nominations were announced, and
on Saturday evening was waited upon by
the Republican Association. Mr.. Hamlin
came forward amid great cheering, and spoke
as follows;
FRRENDs AND FELLow-CITIzENs: Concur
ing with you fully In the great principles
which have united US in political association,
am pleased to meet you on this occasion,
and unite my voice with yours most cordi-
ally in a tribute to common cause. You
have assembled to congratulate each other
upon the doings of our recent Convention at
Chicago, the result of which has come to US
over the telegraph wires, Of the position
which has been assigned to me, you will al
low me TO say, that while feel profoundly
grateful for the honor it eonfers, and am duly
sensible of the obligations it imposes, it was
neither sought expected, or even desired
But as it has come unsolicited, it leaves me
no alternative but 70 accept the responsible
ties which attach to it, with an earnest hope
and endeaEOr that cause more important
than any man, will receive no determent at
my hands, But you have come to pay trib-
ute to our standard-bearer who has been ta-
ken from the Great West where the star Of
empire is eliminating, if it has not already
eliminated man of comprehensive and vig-
orous intellect, and equal to the position des-
igzated. The architect Of his own fortune,
he comes to us most empkaticaliy represen-
tative man; not only a representative man as
an able and earnest exponent of Republican
principles, but as identified with the laboring
and iOdhstrial classes. Having from early life,
to the maturity of manhood, devoted himself
to physical labor, be can, as he,does, but feel a
keener sense of the rights Of labor. He stands
before the country, too, with high moral
character, upon which even a suspicion was
never breathed, and with a political integrity
above Feproaeh. The objects desired by the
Republicans in the pending election, and the
obligations imposed upon our candidate, are
to bring back the government to the principles
and practices of its fathers and founders, and
to administer it in the light of their wisdom
and example; to aid our commerce, to send
it out upon distant seas, and to prepare for it
havens in its distress and on its return; to in
Iuht new AltG aAAu cueIB thbO HI the pEOQuC-
tive and industrial pursuits of the whole coun-
try, for we must not forget that the prosperi-
ty of every country must repose upon produc-
tive industry-labor it is, and labor alone,
that builds and nayigates our ships, delves
in our mines, makes music in our workshops,
clears away the forest, and makes the hillsides
blossom as the rose. It maintains our Gov
ernment and upbolds the world in its pros
perity and advancement Surely, then, it
should challenge and demand its rights of the
Government it thus sustains. To preserve
the integrity Of the Union, with the full and
just rights of all the States, the States them
selves not interfering with the principle of
Liberty and Humanity in the Territories of
the United States outside of their own iuris-
dlction, and 70 preserve our original terrific
rial domain for the homesteads Of fhe free
these are the great principles which we have
united 70 sustain and advance. That done
our Government win remain blessing To an
and our country a refuge in which ibe man |
of every creed and every cline nav sniog
the securities and privileges Of institutions az
Freedom regHlAted only by law.
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