The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-06-02


Ehe objections 90 Lincoln.
The objections which the Locofoco editors
and orators urge against osr candidate for
president thus far do not seem very truthful
Not very formidable IL they verc true. The
main ons, which we noticed The other day,
md regarded a. Recommendation rather
than AFFECTION 10 that in early life he earned
his own living by splitting rails and such
like manual labor instead of having been sup
ported by the Government Ut Wost Point or
WASHING ton, and that sinse that time De has
not been familiarized to the debasing cor
rupticus Of the "expericnced" statesman
congregatei at Washington City.
Here are two other charges against him
which the Locofoco papers copy from .
speech of Douglas in 1858, which were not
repeated by the Little Giant, however, after
she answer which Lincoln gave them on the
spot. Douglas said
We were both comparatively boys, and
both struggling with poverty, in strange
land. was a school teacher ia the town of
Winchester, and he a fourishing grocery
keeper i'm the town Of Salem. lie was more
successful in bis occupation than ! was in
mine, and hence more fortunate in this
worlds goods. Lincoln is ono OF those PEE
euliar men Who perform with admirable skill
everything which they undertake. made az
good q school-teacher as could, and when
q cabinet maker made good bedstead and
table, although my boss said | succeeded
better with bureaus and secretaries than any
thing else; but believe that Lincoln was al
wsys more successful in business than l., for
bis business enabled him to get into the Leg
islatnre. met him there, however, and had
| q symr athy with him, because OF the uphill
struggle We both had in life. lie was then
Just Is good at telling an anecdote as now.
He could beat any of the boys wrestling, or
running foot-race, in pitching quoits or
tossing copper; could win more liquor than
| all the boys OF the town together, and the
| dignity aud impartiality with which he pre-
sided ut horse-race or fist-f hit, excited
the admir- alton and won the praise CT every
body that wns present and participated. !
| sympathized with him, because he was strug-
| Cling with difficulties, and 80 was l. Mr..
| Lincoln served with me in the Legislaturelin
| 1885, when we both retired, and he subsided,
or became submerged, and he was lost sight
| Of NJ a public man for some years.
In 1s46, when Wilmot introduced bis cell
ebrated Proviso, and the Abolition tornado
swept over the country, Lincoln again turned
up as member Of Congress from the San.
| CANON district. was then In the Senate oil
1.-THE United States, and was glad 10 wslsomt
my old friend and companion. Whilst Ii
Congress be distinguished himself by his op.
position to the Mexican war, taking the sids
of the common enemy against his own conn'
| try; and when be returned home be founl
that the indignatio of the people followed
bin, aud he was again submerged or obliged
1 to retire into private life, forgotten BY hi
I former friends. $50
i To which Lincoln briefly responded IN suel
a candid, truthful. and telling manner MS 4
preclude Douglas from reiterating his state
lment during the campaign: .a.gsa..as
Thu Jadgs il wofully at fault about hi
early tsiend being Grocery Keeper" !
donst know as u would be great sin il
a had been; but he 10 mistak en-. Lincoln new
Len keps 4 grocery anywhere in the world.
is true that Lincpln did work the latter par
of one winter in little still-house, up 4
the head af haiioy. And so think m
fsiend, the Judge, is equally at fault whe
he charges me, at the time when | was
: Congress, of having opposed our soldier
who were fighting in the Mexican war. Tt
JAdk did not max his charge very distinctly
but ,an tell you what he can prove, by ri
I, fersing to. the record. You remember VIZ
: an ola White, aHd whenever the Democrat
Ipasty tried 70 got me 10 vote that the war ha
I Fbeen riehtoously begun By. the President,
Q would acsss.s 10. ] Bai whenever they aske
9 for any n.aaey, or land warrants, or m,
81 thing to pay the soldiers there, all that tim
li'gave the'same votethat Judge Donglns di
. You can think as you please as TO wheth
= that was consistent. Such 10 the truth, mr.
; the Judge has the right TO make all be OF
out Or II. Bot when he, by general charg
""iconveys the idea that withheld suppl
at from ltha soldiers who were fighting in q
A. Mexican war, or did anything else TO hind
II the soldiers, he il, to say the least, gross
aud altogether mistaken, as o consulate
" 81 the records will prove to him.