Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-05-22
tFpon tho New York po.t.l
The Republican Candidate

tFTom the New York PoAt.l
The Republican Candidates.
| The Republican candtdatejfor the Presi-
dency, Abraham Lincoln, was born on the
18th OF February, 1909, in Hardin county,
| Kentucky. His earlier ancestors are said
tohave belonged to the Lincoln family of
| Massachusetts, ,imPerishabiy connected in
memory with the incidents of the Revolu-
tionary5 War. But his more immediate
progenitors were Qnakers of Pennsylvania,
who migrated to Virginia. In 1872 his
| grandfather removed to Kentucky, and
lost his life in the wars against the Indians
on what is locally called 'sthe dark and
bloody ground. 7" When Abraham was
but six years of age Oslo ),his f1ther died,
leaving his fnmily utterly destitute. The
widow, with her children, then removed to
Southern Illinois. sg..,r,.f.
! The young Abraham's education was
picked mp almost exclusively in severe
struggle against tho hardships of frontier
| life. Illinois at that time was. not the
rich and prosperous State it is now cover
ed with thrifty viilMges, and reticulated by
a grand system of railroads. 1t was yet a
territory, the north part settled by few
French descendants of the colonists sent
out in the time of Louis XIV. and the
part hy hardy adventures from Virginia
and Kentucky These early settlers, while
they planted the soil with one hand, de-
| Tended it from the savage inCnrsions of the
Sacs, Shuwnees, PotawNttomies and Kick
apoos with the other. Nearly the whole
of the centre and west of the territory was
a wilderness. Kansas at this day is not
so dcsolate as Illinois was then; and as
late as 1918, when the latter was admitted
into the Union as State, the whole popu-
lation did not amount to forty-fve thous-
ano souls. i1
Lincoln, therefore, has grown up with
his adopted state: In his early manhood
! man aud rs a boatman on the Wabash,
and finally moving further west, into the
neighborhood of what is now the capital
of the state, Springfield, he engaged in
trade. In 1890, when be was yet but
twenty-0ne years of age, he volunteered
| in the famous Black Hawk war, and was
| made the captain of his company. This
| Black Hawk, or Mucata Muhicata, as he
was called by the Sacs, was an old war
| rfor, who had been aid to Tecumseh. and
lin, the service of England in 1912. He
| cherished an inveterate hatred OF the
| Americans, which he wrcaked upon the
| almost defenceless settlers of the Illinois
| frontiers. At length his outrages aroused
the people, who volunteered to assist the
I REGULARS. under General Gaines FIRST and
i then General Atkinson, to rid the country
of the presence of these nlaranders. The
war continued, we believe. for about two
years, in the course of which many severe
skirmishes took place. ,a 4la 81
! After his return from the war, Dir. Lin
/ coin was an unsuccessful candidate Tor tho
iLcgislature; but he was subsequently, elec-
| ted TO that body, and continued to serve IN
it for four years, making himself the
nIcanwhiie q ,skilful5 lawyer and popular
orator, 1t was during llis7legislatire ca
reer that Mr.: Lincoln first met Stephen A.
! Douglas, md then commenced the political
| rivalry which has been continued with
more or less force, until it seems about to
culminate in an exciting canvass for the
| Presidency of the United States. The
success of Mr. Lincoln in the State Legis-
latu,e pointed him out rs suitable CAM
dirnte for the House of Representatives at
Washington. He was accordingly elected
to the Thirtieth Congress in l847, and
served one session with marked ability
In politics he shared the sentiments OF
Henry Clay, of whom he was always an
earnest friend; but the state of his private
affairs did not allow him to resume Office,
and, until the passage of the Kansas-Ne-
lbraska bill in 1854, he devoted himself to
bis profession.
When that measure of iniquity was
passed, his patriotism wonld not allow hlm
! 10 remain silent. He took the stump in
Illinois against its author, Mr.. Douglas,
and battled it with immense energy and
1 enthusiasm. In 1855 he was presented as
n candidate for the Vice-Prestdency by the
delegation Of his own state. and subse-
louenlly hcmded- the Fremont electoral
ticket. In 1865 he was the opponent OF
Douglas for the United States senatorship,
having been nominated by the StIte Con-
vention which metat Bloomington. Can
wasting the state side by side with Doug
\ las, he conducted the most memorable
struggle it had ever known with dlsttn-
Cuished ability and spirit. His speeches
were manly, high-toned and eloquent. dc
received a majority OF the popular vote
but owing to1the apportionment OF thq
state. was defeated in the LegislatuEe :
Since then he has been the t1yorlte OF the
West. for the Presidential nomiuhtion. af
Air. Lincoln is a man of high-toned
character. noted for his probity and ihenev-
oleuce, and If elected President, will ad-
minister the duties of his Office with fFu'
EpNlity. Independence and honor. He y IL
still young in years, capable OF putting
forth any amount of energy that may ot
required of him, and so free from the tram
mcls OF rliques and intrigues that ne can
not have motive for swerving IRON In'
rigidest sense of duty.
Hannibal Hamlin, the candldHte loE y IN
Vice Presidency, was 1born.ln ox1oIu 70 70
Maine. in August, 1909. He is by probes
sion n LAWYER. From 1886 to ls40 he wa
a member of the Legislature of Maine
and for three of those years he was th'