Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-05-30
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Rntha.Iasm of the People for Lincoln.
URRANA, Champaign Co, Ill.,
<s May 25, 1860.
EDITORS LEADER 1T is impossible for one
not upon the ground to properly estimate the
enthusiastic joy of the whole Sucker nation at
the result of the Chicago Convention. Since
Illinois became a State, she has never failed
to give her electoral vote to the nominee Of
the Democratic party for President ead 50
long has this been the case, that the country
is as much accustomed to look 10 Illinois for
aid and comfort for. the Democracy, as to the
east for the rising sun. During the past six
years change has been rapidly going for
ward in the political atmosphere Of our State
as indicated by the election of Republican
State officers, which change has been bringing
US nearer and nearer to political crisis
Both parties here feel that that crisis viii be
reached this fall, and that it will determine
for many years the fate of the two great
parties Of our State We have this fall to
elect a Legislature which shall choose Mr..
Trumbull to represent US another six years in
the United States Senate, or, in his place,
some poor sink, of the Douglas -McClenand-
Logan school, to disgrace our great State by
pandering to the slavery propagandists. We
have also to choose legislature which shall
appOrtion the State so that the minority shall
no longer govern the majority, as was done
in the reelection of Mr.. Douglas. These are
TO us imnortsnt- -raSnlts. ; and evenly balanced
as we are in numbers with the Democracy,
we seize with avidity upon everything found
floating in the political world which promises
us any advantage over our unscrupulous ad-
yersaries. It was this, and our knowledge
that the eyes of the whole nation were upon
our State as forming one important point
in the political battle-ground of the country,
that caused US to urge, so pertinsciously, the
nomination of Abraham Lincoln and it is
the positive knowledge that his nomination
places every desired result beyond perad-
venture, together with our love for the man
and the principles which he represents, that
cause such universal Joy in Suekerdom. We
can now gointO the fight among the old Wings
and Americans Of Central Illinois, and having
no load to csrTy-no record of higher-law or
abolition scare-croWs to clear up and explain
awsy-we can confidently and successfully
demand their support for their old leader,
whom they revere next to the memory of the
gallant Harry of the West -El
Here, and all over Central Illinois, Mr.. Lin
coin is almost familiarly known by every
man, woman and child. For more than
20 years scarcely term Of our court has pass
ed that has not seen him here, upon the most
free and easy terms with our people, until
they know him and respect him as they do
no other man in public life. Mr. Lincoln is
in every sense one Of the people. Many of our
eminent men have, like him, come up from
poorer classes but unlike him, when once
up, and honored by the people, they become
aristocrats in heart and action. He is still as
humble in action and feeling as, when poor
young man, be earned livelihood by split
ting rails in the Sangamon bottoms. And
now, prominent as he is before the American
people, he would sooner pass a leisure hour
among the humblest of his toynsmen, crack
ny F@etSeAStA joA0o ASAALAAAE LIS AAACA-
hsustible fund Of anecdotes, than receive the
hattering attentions of hundred of the silk
stockinged nabobs of the country.
If Mr.. Lincoln is chosen President and
that he will be nothing seems surer, our
Government will be in fair Wsy to return
to the Republican simplicity which charac-
terized the earlier administrations Him
self a plain man, honest to q nicely, pure in
character and life, unblemished in reputation,
a man who, under no circumstances what
ever indulges in the use of ardent spirits, ne
win call about him men like himself, who
win be too honest TO allow corruption, and
too patriotic to neglect the duties of govern
ment ...3 n
Mr. Editor, put Illinois down upon your
slate as good for Lincoln and Hamlin by TO-
900 against Douglas; and as much as you
please against any other man.
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