The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-06-16

LANE ON THE CHICAGO PLArFoRx AND CAxpI-
DATEs.-At recent debate between the nomi-
nees for Governor of Indiana, at Upton, Lane
paid the following handsome tribute to Abe Lin
coin and the Republican platform:
We have platform as sound and conservative
as the Constitution of our common country, as
wise and all comprehensive as the varied and
vast interests Of the Republic, and with us it is
no sin to quote the Sermon on the Mount or to
believe in the Declaration of American Independ-
ence. We present you candidate for the Pres
idency upon that platform, who in his person is
an apt illustration of our free institutions. An
orphan child, born to no inheritance, but with
an honest heart and name, strong right arm
and Industrious habits he has carved out for him.
sell the prOudest position on earth. He bears
aloft to-day the meteor flag of our common coun-
try in his strong right arm, and around the name
of Honest Abraham Lincoln cluster the hopes
of the whole world for the perpetuation of free
government. [Great Applause. This obscure
child Of labor spent large portion of his life in
the humble vocation of farm laborer, and when
l look over this vast assembly, composed in part
of young men, my heart grows stronger and my
hope grows brighter. There listens to me, per-
haps, this day, some honest son Of toll who vet
shall reach the place higher than kings, higher
than emper0rs, the proudest position upon earth,
the position OF President of the United States.
[Applause.1 Abraham Lincoln is at once dis
tinguished lawyer, q patriotic statesman and a
leading politician for the last twenty years, whose
political discussions with Stephen A. Douglas
show him to-day to be one of the ablest, if not
the very ablest political debater on the whole
continent.
Now, is he worthy to be presented to you as
candidate! What high quality do you most de-
sire in your Presidents You desire above all
things plain, old-fashioned honesty, and Abra-
ham Lincoln is a synonym for Ill that is honest
Sirs, he has come through the fiery furnace of
three heated political contests in Illinois and to-
day there is not smell of FIRE on all his gar
ments. No man has dared to inipute to him
aught save honesty and integrity His mind is
beautiful in its purity; beautiful as is the fragrant
flower of his own prairie home, and his life and
character is as pure and spotless as the crystal
water which layes the northern shore OF his
Northwestern home, and as the proud represen-
tatlve Of American institutions he will be your
President in 1861, and in the presence of thirty
millions Of people upon the eastern portico Of
your great Capitol he will assume those duties SO
intimately connected with the well being aud
destiny Of thirty millions Of frcemen. In the en-
thusiasm sweeping over this whole land from the
lakes 70 the Ohio, from Maine to the Wabash; in
the watch fires Of freedom which now blaze upon
o thousand hill tops, and light up . thousand
valleys; In this Enthusiasm which greets us /
cateh the spirit Of prophecy. hear tho tramp
Of the march Of coming events, and foeesee that
Abraham Lincoln is to be President in 1851, and
snat shas dsaree 10 written in the book of fate.
losusvsit Much applause.
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