The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-05-24
Lincoln and HamIin.

It is with feelings of the highest satisfaction
tn It we are enabled to unfurl on the Republican
banner the name Of ABRAHAM LINCOLN for the
Presidency, and Hannibal Hamn for the Vice
Presidency. The liberal and enlightened policy
which controlled the action Of the National Re
publican Convention, will commend itself to ev-
cry patriot and the nomination will be hailed with
enthusiasm by the friends Of freedom throughout
the Union. Lincoln and Hamlin are eminenty
fit to be the standard bearers of the great Repub
lican army, and TO lead on to victory.
That there may be temporary feelings of di,
appointment in some localities, is very natural :
but this feeling will be dissipated, and followed
b. hearty acquiescense, in the action Of fhe con-
vention. Seward has long been a favorite candi.
date for this position in the gift of the American
people especially was this true of our own State
Of Wisconsin. He was unquestionably the first
choice Of majority of the Republicans of
the State and had the State Of Wisconsin been
the only panty to be consulted, Mr. Seward would
lave been tie candidate before all others But
there are other Estates whose electoral vote
must be secured in order to the election of Re.
publican President in November next. The now
doubtful States are Indiana, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey; these States must and 1ciH be car.
Tied for LiLColn that they could have been car
lied for Seward, it was unsafe to calculate. -
Ineel states have more recently become aliena,
ted from the Democracy, and inclined to the Re
publican side. Their aid is indispensable to the
election Of Republican President, and it is
not that Lincoln is less a Republican than Sew
ard, that the former IS more acceptable to these
doubtful States but it is more particularly be-
cause Seward has long been considered the en-
bodyment Of opposition to the Democratic party
thousands of which party have recently voted,
or now for the first time are disposed to vote the
Republican ticket. Mr.. Seward may be an older
member fthe Republican organization than M.
Lincoln, but not better. Mr.. Seward NAV
have battled longer with the slave power and
against slavery extension, than Mr.. Lincoln, but
no man has taken more firm and manly stand
against the encroachments of slavery than the
latter.
The opinions of Mr.. Lincoln on the great ma
tional issues of the day, are placed fully on the
record; his numerous published speeches made
during the memorable political campaign in I'll.
in the contest for U. S. Senatorship with Mr.
Douglas, evince his superior powers fmind, and
his well defined sentiments on all prominent po-
htical questions. In that contest, he everywhere
showed himself an overmatch for douglas in de-
bate, and did NOR to redeem the State of Him
Cis from the thraldom of Democracy than any
other living man. Lincoln is emphaticaIly
man of tim people the friend of the laborine
classes, and Of honest industry himself accus-
toned to toll with his hands in the common vo.
cations OF life, he knows well how to appreciate
labOring men. Of his early history his political
antecedents, and the prominent events of his
lie, we shall have occasion to speak hereafter
Hannibal Hamlin, Of Maine, the candidate for
WIGS President, is at present one of the mos
able and active members of the U. S. Senate -
His antecedents are Democratic but has for sew
eral years been fully identified with the Repub
lican movement. In 1854, in the U. S. Senate
he opposed vigorously the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise. He was afterwards elected Gov
ernor of the State of Maine; at the expiration
Of his term of Office, hc again elected to the
U. S. Senate,