The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-13
News from the Home Of Mr.. LineOln-ZIx
traCrdtnary Confessions from u Prssi
Dental Ca ns1isiate.

cial attention of our readers.
1t will be perceived that our correspondent
has called upon and found Honest Old Abe
at home; has freely conversed with him and his
neighbors, and is delighted with the results of
his visit. Thus ''Old Abe" in every respect,
is painted in fattering coiors as the man for tie
crisis, the man for the people, and "a marvel
lousy proper man. for the White House. His
home sis like the residence of an American
gentleman in easy circumstances" inside and
out, but sis not aristocratic an est. lishment
as the homes of many members of our Common
Council" They have no Japanese pickings in
Illinois. He still "onjoys life in very easy
manner, though practicing lawyer in all the
courts of the State" His neighbors like him
"They like his sociabiity and familiarity
They Ike him 'as a plain, unassuming man.
possessing strong common sense and quick
ness of apprehension sin detecting the right
from the wrong" They like him because che
is honest, talks sense, and is not too proud to
sit down upon his doorsteps in his shirt sleeves
and chat with his neighbors"
Here is hint for Thurlow Weed. Would he
cut of the bunglng rail splitter with neat
picture of "Old Abe" sitting on his doorstep,
in his shirt sleeves, chatting familiarity with
some of bis neighbors? But we pass on to what
Mr.. Lincoln has to say for himself. Our CORE
spondent is charmed with him. He is a model
of frankness. 'He had no DISCUSSES" On the
subject of slavery he "emphatically declared
that it was his principle not to touch it where
it exists, but to prevent its spread into terri
tory now freev "He would protect the South
in their institutions as they exist, and said that
Southerners did not comprehe' the position of
the republicans in regard to slavery" They
were not party who would destroy the South
by fire and sword.
All this is very plausible; but now we come
to the pith Of the matter. Mr.. Lincoln said "he
would like to go South and talk to the South
erners on this topic, were it not that the'minds
of some we're so inhamed against him that they
would not listen to his reasoning, but, on the
other hand, might be inclined to infict Lynch
law upon his person, should he appear among
them" He had been invited to 60 to Ken
lucky; but, upon inquiring into the matt :, 'he
came to the conclusion that the Invitation was
trap laid by some designing persons to in.
veigle him into a slave Staten for the purposes
Of personal violence.
This confession is frank and honest; but 1t is
a very startling one from a Presidential candi-
date. Mr. Lincoln Is before the people Of all
the States as candidate for the highest Office
in their gift, and yet he has not the moral cou.
rage to cross the boundary between the free
States and the slave States, for fear Of personal
violence. Why afraid Why this intense feel
ing of hostility in the South against him-so in
tense and universal that he dare not even visit
his native State of Kentucky, where be has a
wide circle of distinguished family connections,
and where the public sentiment Is eminently
conservative! This question is suggestive. II
betrays the appreciation by Mr.. Lincoln Of Is
position as the candidate of dangerous Sec
tional party, and as the embodiment Of their
revolutionary principles.
There would be no reason for this fear of
personal violence among his own people Of
Kentucky il there were no cause for some
deeply rooted conviction of danger in connec
ton with this republican party. And the
danger has been pointed oat by Mr.. Lincoln
himself In bis declaration Of the "irrepre ssib,e
conflict" from which oil the States are destiaed
10 become free States or slave States. Tac re-
publican party do not intend 10 interfere with
slavery where It exists. oh, no. They will
only exclude il from all the Territories. and
build up wall Of free States around the slave
States, and remodel the Supreme Court in fayor
Of Freedom" and extend the freedom of
speech and Of the press TO abolition emissaries
in the South, and through various other "con-
stitutional' ways and means stir up such
state Of characterization and insecurity an lg
the seryile population Of the South to make
even South Carolina too hot TO hold II. All
this is well understood In he South; and thus
il is that the republican party is regarded with
such alarm and indignation throughout the
South that even Dir, Lincoln, as the republican
candidate for President, dare no. cross the
dividing lire into his native State of Kentucky
Our correspondent assures us that /" Lincoln
is not an ugly man; that his features may APP
pear rugg to the casual observer, but that
when engaged in earnest and attentive CONVEX
sation they assum an aspect al once pleasing
and engaging and hence Il Is inferred his
conquest Of the charming young lady whose
realm is now bis domestic hearth" But IL Mr..
Lincoln were personally duplicate Of Apollo,
and il bis influential family connections extend
cd to every Southern State, he would none the
less be excluded from them, as the embodiment
Of the republican abolition creed, than he Is
from Kentucky. Against him and his cause,
with the people of the South, is the vital iss,
of the safety or destruction of their domestic
institutions. They are al the mercy Of the pow
erful NORTH; and menaced By this formidable
Northern ant-slsvery alliance, they shut their
doors against IL, even 10 the exclusion Of South
ern men with their aggressive Northern princi-
niaa