, 1860-05-15
4resS Tribtt1te,
THE WINNING rIAN-~-AKR24aAN

:
Rraat lore aud esteem for the. maa,. by any
open or secret hostility to any othet-of the EN-
inent gentlemen named for that high office, nor
by feeling, Of State pride or Western Sec
tio1siism but by a profound and well -matlred-
conviction that his unexceptonable record; hiE
position between the extremes Of. opinion in
the party, his spotlsss character as 4 citizen,
aud his acknowledged. ability as q statesman,
will, in tho approaching canvass, give him an
advantage before Tue ~ppeoph which nd otller
candidate car claim. We arc not disposed to
deny that Mr. SEWARD, is, the question
Of availability being set aside the': Grat
choice Of perhaps, . majority Of the rank
and ale Of tho party; that Gen CAMERON has
claims upon Pennsylvania which his friends
will not willingly hive overlooked that the
siatesnau-like qualities, inae1ibl, honesty and
marked executive ability Of SALMON 2. CEASE
entitlo him to- o-ahigh plaea in: Republican ~ess
teem; that Mr.. BATES pure lie-and noble
aims justly command tue confidence Of troops
Of friends; that the -chivalric WADE has e3-
torted the admiration of.the Nqrsh and Vest;
that FEssESprs. for bis gallant service. must
be gratefully remembered; and that JoHE
MCLEAN, whose. life is without q stain, and
whose lore Of country has never been chal-
lenged, must be remembered rs. g. strongand'
rne<ceptional 1nan.: But Illinois claims that
Mr. LINCOLN, though without the rine expe-
rieace Of SEWARD, the age and maturity Of
BATES and MCLEAN, or til 6re Of FEssESDEs
and WADE, has thet rare and happy combina..
ton Of qualities which, as candidate, enables
him TO outrank either. -
I. BY bis own n otion, be is not cant ndidate.
He has never sought, directly or indirectly,
for the first or second place on the ticket
Tbs movement in his favor is spontaneous.
It has sprung up suddenly md with great
strength, its roots being in the conviction that
hs is the man to reconcile all differences in our
ranks. to conciliate all the now jarring e1e--
1nents, and to lead forward to certain victory"
Haying never entered into the field, he has
put forth no personal effort for success, and
he has never made. even by implication,
pledge Of any sort By which his action, il he
ia President, will be Influenced for any man,
any measure, any policy. He will enter upon
tic contest with no cloge, no embarrassment;
aud this fnct is'a guaranty Of agloziuis Til
umph. ..
II. 1n ali the Fundamentals cf Republicanism,
he is radical up to the limit y; which thepak-
ty, with due respect for the rights Of the South,
proposes to 50, But nature has given him
that wise conservatism which has made his
action aad his expressed opinions 80 conform
to the most mature sentiment of thu country
or thi. question Of slavery, that no living man
can put his finger on ono Of his speeches Or
my ooe Of his public acts asa State. legisla-
tor or sa member Of Congress, to which
valid obi :ctiou can BE- raised. His avoidance
Of extremes has not been, the result Of ambi.
ton which measures words or regulates acts
bu. tfe natural consequence; Of au eqna-
aule 1aturc AID in mental constitution
tha. is ntver c0I its balance While no one
DOUBTS the strength Of his attachments to the
Repub ican cause, or doubts that he is rep
1es=ntatire man, all who know him see that
to occupies The happy mem between that
alleged zad:ca}ism which binds The older
An>i.sl'rery men 10 Mr. Seward, and that.
conservatism which dictates the support of
Judge Bates. Seward men, Bates men, Cam:
eron men aud Chase men can all accept him
as SIS tteir St cond choice, and be sure that in
him hey nave tho nearest approach to what
they m2tt admire in their rcspectiva:iavoites,
which a1y possible compromise will enable
Them TO chiain.
III. Mr. LScoLs. has no new record to
make. Originally q Whig though early re-
crui. Of shs great ,Repubblicasu pa:t5, l. IL liss
nothing to explain for the satislactio. pf. New
Jersey, Pennsylvania or the West. His opin.
iona aud votes On The Tariff will be acceptable
to MI sections except the extreme South; where
Republican sm expects no support. Commit
ted within proper limitations, set up by econ.
omy and constitutional obligation, 10 tl4e iqq, IN
provement Of rivers and lmrbors, to TINT most
beai1cent measure, the HoEcstkhd bffl, ahfto
the speedy construction Ct the Pacific Rail
road, lie need write no letters to soften; down
old aspcritic., growing dut or:tlesa questius}
which must inevitably play thcjr part indhs
canvass before its. Ho*i all that PennsyIya-
MIA AMI the West have right to demand -.
II. lie is Southern man by birth and
education, who has never departed. from the
principles which he learned from the states-
men Of tho period in which he first saw the
light. 4 Kentuckian, animated by tho hopes
that bring tho Kentucky delegation here, a
Western man, to whom sectionalism is IN.
Known he is that candidate around whom all
opponents Of the extension Of Human s!aveyyy,
North and South, can rally. :
r. M.. LINCOLN is man Of the people;
For his position, lie is not indebted to family
influence, tho pnr,iality OF friends or the arts
Of the politician. All his early life a lahorel
in the field, in the saw.mill ns boatnan On
the Wabash, Ohio, and Mississippi, as n Tar
mer in Illinois, he has that sympathy with the
men who toll aid iote that will make hiu
strong. Later: valiant soldier in the Black
Hawk war. student in law Office. bending
ills great powcrs to overcome the defects q
.,r,r ,-o;r;a,. ,,a,, ,.r;s,o+or .ona 81 1os,
h,;,;,n, aavoc,to IN t1,a ,,;o,e.t co,,rla and
:, nopu'ar loader in tho creat moyc,nen,
Of tho are, there is enough, Of romance md
pcetrg in his lie to fill all tie land with shout
ir.and soar. Honest Old ibe1 uinaor ar
ou.crovth Of FREQ institutions. he would dit