The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-04-27

which is inseparoble from this high
honor-a responsibility which l could
almost wish had fallen upon some of
the far more eminent men and expert.
enced statesmen. whose distinguished
names we're before the Convention, |
shall, by your leave, consider more fully
the resolutions of the Convention de
nominated the platform, and, without
any unnecessary aud unreasonable de-
lay, respond to you, Mr.. Chairman,
in writing, not doubling that the plat
form will be found satisfactory, and the
nomination gratefully accepted. And
now will no longer defer the pleasure
Of taking you, aud each of you, by the
hand"
AS to his manners and home habits.
Judge Dickson, Of this city, who had
unusual opportunities to know we'll Of
what he was speaking, said in public
speech the night before the assassina-
tion:
"ITc brought not to the White House
the culture of the college, nor the fas.
tidiousnoss of the court, but the home
ly virtues of plain, honest man Of the
people-perfect simplicity Of character,
integrity of purpose, and unaffected
dignity. His manners have been the
theme, with his enemies, of the most
aagitious falschoOd. l had some ac-
quaintance with him before he became
President. | know those who knew
him we'll at his home and elsewhere
when he was a private either; and
neither l nor they ever heard him use
a vulgar word, or saw him do any thing
that would have been in the sligh test
degree offensive to the most fastidi.
Gus. He often enivened the converse.
ton by an apt unecdote, oftcner by the
same means exposed the fallacy of an
elaborate but unsouDd argument, some
times he INDUCED in sallies of wit, bat,
in one respect, he differed from all pro.
fessional wits have known; his was g
keen weapon, but was never barbed OF
touched with poison it left no sting
behind"
As to the character of Mr.. Lincoln
as public man, we find in the Londor
Spectator, Of MIrch 25th, a remarkable
article, portion of which we copy
Says the Spectator:
"We all remember the animated Gu
logium on General Washington which
Lord Macaulay passed parcnthetically
in his essay on Hampden: 1T wa!
when to the sulen tyranny of LauC
and Charles had succeeded the 6erc,
conflict of sects and factions, ambition
of ascondaDcy or burning for revenge
it was when the vices and ignoranc
which the old tyranny had engendere,
threatened the new freedom will
destruction, that England missed tn
: sobriety, the self.command, the perfec
soundness Of Judgment, the perfec
rectitude of intention to which the his
tory of revolutions furnishes no parable
c or furnishes a parallel in Washiugto
e alone II that high eulogium wa
+ fully earned, as it was, by the first grea
President of the United States, W
0 doubt if it has not been as well earne
e by the Illinois peasant-proprietor an
: village lawyer whom, by some divin
a inspiration or providence, the Republic
an caucus of 1860, substituted for NJ
4 Seward as their nominee for the Pres
a dents chair. No doubt he has in man
y ways had lighter task than Washing
e ton, for he had not, at least, to produc
= a government out of chaos, but only
+ express and execute the purposes of
n people far more highly organized for pr
d litical life han that with which Wash
D ington had TO deal. but without th
ad vantages of Wushipgtou's education
al training, Dir. Lincoln was calle
3 from an humble station, at the openiu
n of mighty civil war, to form govern
s ment out of party in which the habit
- r ~ 1 n
# list. Finding himself the Object {
r Southern abuse so fierce and so 70,
: that in any man less passionlcss
e would long ago have stirred up an in
G placable animOsity, Knocked at for h
It official awkwardness, and denounee,
IS for his steadfast policy, by all the Den
# ooratic section Of the loyal States, trie
e by years of failure before that polio
: achieved a single great success, furth'
tried by a series of successes so rHpi
# and brilliant that they would have pui
ed up a smaller mind and overset /
/, balance, embarrassed by the boastfu
!, ness of his people and of his subo
y dinates no less than by his own cxper
IT ence in his relations with foreig
l. States, beset by fanatics of principl