St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-07-12

p"t an h"nCSt man abpon ms might,
"tld faith, he mamma IA that
Hon. L. G. Bowdoin being introduced to
the audience, said:
Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizcns-I con-
graduate you one and all upon the auspicious
auSufies under which we meet The dark
cloud OF Democracy that lowerd so portcn-
touSly above us has at length broke and split.
ana through the riffs the sun of Republication
is gloriouSly shining.
On the 10th day of last May the repre-
9oh'"'i'es OIL the Republican party came up to
chicago to meet in concert, and nominate can
didi'tcs Tor their support. They came not
only from the banks of the Aroostook. in
Maine, the Great Lakes that surge along our
northern border and the westward flowing
waters OF the Columbia and Oregon, but from
me sunny wales of Texas, the great State of
Missouri that is making such gigantic efforts
to throw off the incubus of Slavery, from Vir-
gina the Mother of Presidents, and the home
oi Henry A. Wise, the murderer of old John
Brown; from the District of Columbia. the
State of Maryland. and from old Kentucky
where resides the gallant and inlomitable
CaSSiuS NJ. Clay. Twenty four States and Ter
| rltollcs had representatives in that COnvcn.
ton, and they came together under peculiar
circumstances and at IA peculiar time. They
1clt 1t to be great duty to achieve success.
and wrest the administration of Government
rom corrupt party who had forfeited it from
the design of its founders, who failed to pro.
tcct single good and bcncliccnt institution.
and used the whole power of the Government
to sustain the assumptions of slave propagan-
diStS AT the time of assembling of the Chi
| cago Convention the Democrats had held their
National Convention at Charleston, and from
diSscnsions among themselves had been unable
to nominate any candidates The Union Con
vention had also assembled and placed in
Nomination two very good old gentlemen,
but who represented no living ideas There
were then no nominations before the people
which could command any extended support,
and the party felt it to be their duty to pre-
sent to the American people men who should
command their respect, and embody the popu-
lar idea Of American craftsmanship Al.
though the Republican Party was formed from
the old Wing and Democratic parties. vet
there was nothing more patent in that Con-
vention than feeling Of brotherly love and
fraternity, each willing to merge his own
predictions in the duty of success, and the
most perfect harmony prevailed in their delib-
erationS. The people were there too Mr..
Chairman, they came from all parts of the
Union in unaCcountablc crowds, and gathered
in dense masses in and around that vast Wig
wan which the people of Chicago had so hos
pitabIy and generously erected for their ac-
CommodatiOn.
The first work Of the Convention was to
make a Platform, and it is Il Platform of which
We may well he proud, embracing as it does
SO many bcnciiccnt and valuable measures
which will tend greatly to the prosperity of
the country, 1t aiiirms the right of Kansas
TO immediate admission under a Constitution
of her own choosing; it provides for protect,
ing and fostering the industrial. agricultural
and commercial interests of this nation il
maintains the policy Of the House Homestead
| bill, giving free homes to free men it pro
| tcCts the rights Of natur.lizcd citizens it ad-
vocatcs the improvement of our rivers and
! harbors, that the path of commerce may be
unimpcded; it is in favor of the construction
of Pacific Railroad by immediate and eff
Gent aid from the Federal Government it
| holds that the normal condition of the Terri
tories is that of freedom, and it denies to Con
grcss, the Territorial Legislature, or any set
of individuals, the authority to establish slave
| ry Ill the Territories of the United States
Having tremendously and enthusiastically
+ agreed upon this platform, the next question
| that came before lis was the selection of our
candidates ; and Mr.. Chairman, in the ext
gcnces of those who are honestly aboring to
! forward a great and good cause, Providence al
ways raises up the right man for the right
place.
suppose, sir had it been left to the honest
conscience of every delegate there present, t.
say who WAS his first choice for the Presidency
OF this great nation, they would have one and
all pronounced VIM. II. Seward to be the man.
but there seemed to be insurmountable obsta-
Giles in the way of his election those States
on whom we most depended to give us the
victory in the coming contest, thought they
could not carry him successfully through, and
this decided the question. Undoubtedly the
second choice of those delegates and of the
people there assembled was Abraham Lincoln,
of Illinois, and as he was not open TO the OBJ
jections urged against Mr.. Seward, he was en-
Enthusiastically nominated.
Mr.. Lincoln is eminently a Western man
and man Of the people; from being pio- |
nccr woodsman in the then untroddcn wilds |
of the West, he has, by perseverng individual
effort, against almost insurmountable obsta- |
cles, achieved a sublime success in life, created
for himself a national reputation, and is now
a candidate for the highest and most noble
position in the world. Well may the people
rally around the man who has so nobly eXem-
plified aud vindicated the free institutions of
this country. 1t may be. Mr.. Chairman.
that Abraham Lincoln in the White House
will not make graceful bow as Franklin
Pierce, but he will not violate his pledges and
tramplc upon the rights of free people lac
may not give such splendid dinners as James
Buchanan, but neither will he neccssitate the
creation of a Covode Committee. Let lis
then rally around him with might and
strength and placing him in the Executive
Chair bid him give God speed to the progress
sivc and prosperous institutions Of this great
country.
Mr.. Chairman, on one occasion whe n Napo-
Icons army was retreating before a victorious
foe, he rode up to them with flashing eyes, and
in a voice of thunder exclaimed " Soldiers
it has always been my practice to sleep upon
the field of BATTLE and wheeling his troops
once more upon the enemy, the battle Of Ma
rcn%o was won.
Fellow Republicans let it be our practice
thus to sleep upon the field of battle, and a
victory more brilliant than that of Marcngo,
shall crown our efforts.
Mr. c. L. Berry, of Howard county,
was next introduced.