Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-05-26
The Nominations.

The Nominations.
Since our last ISSUE the Chicago Convention
has givent TO the country candidates for the Of
ices Of President aud Vice President The
names Of the gentlemen selected have gone
forth upon the wings of the mind and reached
every corner Of the land. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
and HANNIBAL HAMIN, are the venerated and
honored names, which every republican, aud
many who have not hitherto been identified with
that party, hail with enthusiasm and confidence,
as the men whose sterling ability and integrity
are to roll back the food of iniquity, which has
spread over the land, and deliver that land from
the hand Of the spoller. The ticket is a dis
Greet and judicious one, and whatever other
names may be pitted against ii, there is little
TO fear from discontinue and defeat. We can
look upon it in DO other light, than that Of the
common verdict that no better or more formi
dable ticket could have been presented. We
doubt, whether any other man before the Con-
vention could have carried the strength of Lin
coin, in the three doubtful states of Illinois, In
diana, and Pennsylvania, while in the North
west he is without an equal. With him, the
states alluded to can no longer be considered
as doubtful. The organs of the old line wings
as we'll as the individual members of that party
recognize the public estimate of success, and
reelily fall in to swell the current of popular
appreciation, while the quaking Douglas men
make but poor fist Of assembling the inward
working of dismay that has taken possession Of
them. They feel that the petty trickery Of
squatter sovereignty, as well as the more reck-
less violations of public faith, must schrvel
before the sterling integrity Of LINCOLN. In
all his life, now extending over 81 years, there
is not an act Of commission or omission, by
which his thorough uprightness, his exact con-
scientiousness, his perfect integrity are impair
ed. The fact is guarantee that when he goes
into the government as its Executive head, the
corruption and extravaganza which have made
the two last Administrations a stencil in the
nostrils of the American people, and which are
fast sapping the foundations upon which our
fathers built, will come to a sudden end. The
spirit so wildly and frantically manifested in
Chicago when the choice was made, is one that
will soon spread everywhere, and set the whole
country ablaze.
A contemporary who was present. gives the
following glimpse at the convention: 'In num-
bers, in harmony, in unity of purpose, and un-
bounded enthusiasm, the Chicago Convention
is without parallel in the history of the coun-
try. 1t was rather triumphant ovation to the
principles of the Republican party than mere
nominating Convention. The delegates con-
stituted but very small portion of those in at
tendance. Hundreds of Jealous outsiders were
present from the distant New England States,
thousands from New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio. while from the Northwestern States they
came by legions Various estimates of the
number of strangers in Chicago ragning from
forty to fifty thousand, were made-the former
number being certainly within bounds.
The friends of the different candidates were
jealous and untiring in their exertions for their
several preferences; but all were actuated by q
determination to acquiesce cheerfully in the
choice Of the Convention. The contest for the
nomination was waged with yigor but not with
bitterness or serimoDy and when, on the third
bslot,.it was aseertGined that the gallant Lin
eoln was the selected leader Of the campaign
all heartily joined in making the nomination
unanimous. The scene that ensued in the Con-
vention de6es description. The shouts of the
twelve thousand people within the spacious
"Wigwam" were answered by the immense as
semblage without and re.echoed by excited
crowds from street to street throughout the city
Flags waved from the shipping in the harbor
cannon thundered salute after salute, and as eve
ming drew on, the twilight aud deepening dark
ness we're made brilliant with bonfres, rocket
and Examinations.
The committee Of one from each State, ap
pointed 10 notify Mr.. Lincoln of his Domna
tion, started for Springfield in a special train
the next morning, and at each station on thu
reute the train was met by crowds Of people
with music and banners and shouts On arriv
hg at Springfield in the evening, the whole
popuIace turned out to welcome the committee
asd the city was wild with exeitemeat Bon
fires and Examinations made the streets light al
day. 'Old Abe received the committee with
unaffected modesty, and bis bearing on the oe-
ession was distinguished by an unstudied sim
pliciiy and frankness Of manner, which won
every heart His wife was present at the recep-
tiOn, and the easy grace asd accomplished self
possession with which she assisted her husband
IN entertaining bis guests, gave assurance that
the future hostess Of the White House will
worthily sustain the honors of her exalted po-
siioa
Tue PLArTORa adopted at Chicago will ap
pear next week
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