Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-05-26
THE REPUBLICAN, CANDIDATES

THE REPUBLICAN, CANDIDATES.
The following details will be interesting to
most of our readers who are anxious to learn
something more of the two men who if they
live are to fill the highest Offices within the gift
of free people after the Sd of March 1861
| Abraham Lincoln is man of tho people in
the strictest sense, having sprung from the
humblest ranks-if such classification is pos
sible in country Illustrated by such records us
his. He was born in Hardin county, KY, Feb,
-, 1909 and is now, therefore, in the fifty
second year of his age. From early youth he
was Injured to hard labor, which left him neither
much time nor opportunity for mental cultiva
ton. But such natures as Mr.. Lincoln's make
their own opportunities, as rivers are said to
form their own channels so that wherever he
was, whether as loborer in the field, in the
saw-ml, getting out rails, earning, on the
| Western waters, the title of "1he Fatboatman,"
by which he is still endeared to those who pur-
sue that occupation, he constantly found means
to enrich his stock of knowledge and strength
en- his native powers. Thus he went on, till he
acquired sufficient legal information 10 get adj
mitted to the bar, when he took up his residence
in Springfield, Illinois, where he still dwes.
When the "Black Hawk War" broke out in
the spring OF 1882, Mr.. Lincoln was among the
first TO offer his services, and was elected cap
tain of company of Illinois volunteers, at the
head OF which he distinguished himself during
the brief yet effective campaign. He was ai
terward elected four times to the State Legisla-
ture, taking decided ground as a Wing of the
Henry Clay School In 1916 he was elected
member Of the Jhirtieth Congress- where he
acted with the Wing party; and at the Nation
Co.. pnaa;Jar, :, I, 80 - - H.. ~ o ~.
iol iresio9 1 II. :eAt' Ioo-' nc was eiee'eo 10
represent iiliroiS IN tne SehNfm wing commit
're. iton'a y, service d,a ne render IN that
cdAnP.e'- Voc" tne hePuohcah party was
,o.eunSeeu' ne was among .i'e earliest 10 enron
hiuds.ii chuer It's oaii''eI ana tue most eliecuVe
W nS"I S's "''',t0- IN t"e c"'NasS oi iooo ne
gave tue ne~@est support TO fremont ana
lay aIu ulaue SONG Oh .ne oeSt speeches.
inSt "eIe nea'u III 'iie Nor'h"eS,'
:, MI ihIoio' po"e't'' Is NANNY ihdeoteu LOT
ms na.iohui lame 10 'ae hnhois campaign OF
10 'oi III vance, ", ne was put FORWARD 10 contest
the claims Oh WI douglas Tor the United'States
oenatorsnP. maj campaign formed an era IN
9ui Po..ioui .s'ot!- %! ms course against the
I.S'oii?ioi t"'qun!, VII, DouSlas nau won inc
eci'' o' oeiile oe''er statesman then he mad
, ueen SuppoSeS ~ We on tne one honu' ana, on
en-, national administration. Both were great
elements Of strength before the people; and in
ADDITION 70 "i's'L Mr.. Douglas enjoyed the
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fance an,ore al eiast"s IH.,uru "squ"'''-
suumotn adro;,urss os n ro1,;cal ,ac,;c;an and
the sophism Of popular sovereignty. which is
always very agreeable to men who do not take
onu MoImu W S ,L 1t 'herough!' 10
a, peared IN the field a nlo,n man b,rJly known
to the country at large, with no resources but
ms inieiIect ana Ms homemade repul"'o" tor
q
knew their man. He met AIR. Douglas in
SEXES o. debates which, while they formed
eon.,'iuTus a''o MASTER! ue'eioPnehI Oh ,ne
,;ors of The hos, onal;,;es Of ,be Arar;cor
",tump." lie vanquished Mr. Douglas in log
ic' IN appeals to the unpreJudlced, and in Wit
"''' nino nc e ,nnm '"e 't"'e U! Popuia'
liz Unfair annoin,men, Of The sislo,urr Mr.
Douglas succeeded in obtaining his reelection
to the Senate. But the reputation OF MIR. Lin
oo';' ,''s'eua oi 1e"s ui'i';ncu y ;cenS a'I.e'
crown br;pbter and larger trp,n Thar dny. un,iI
it nov blazes as pillar of fire before the Re-
publican party to guide 1t forward to victory.
| Hannibal Hamlin, the Republican candidate
for Vice President, was borne in Paris, Oxford
Co., Maine, in August, 1909, and is now in the
5lst year of his age He is by profession a
LAWYER. but for the last twenty-four wears has
been, for much of the time, in political life.
From, 1886 to 1910 he was member of the
Legislature of Maine, and for three of those
years he was the Speaker Of its House of Rep
resentatives. In ls43 he was elected member
OF Congress. and reelected for the following
term. In lS47 he was again member of the
State Legislature. and the next year was chosen
to fill a vacancy. occasioned by the death of
John Fairfield, in the United States Senate. In
1851 he was reelected for the full term in the
same body. During all this period and up to
the passage of the Kansas Nebraska bill in
1854, Mr.. Hamlin was an active and influential
member of the Democratic marty His ideas
of political consistency were sucb that he could
not 90 With his partv in the repeol of the Mis-.
souri, Compromise. That act he regarded as a
proof that the marty. with which he had been all
his life connected. no longer deserved the name