The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-05-09

Gentlemen Of the Convention: |
am not here as a delegate; have no
credentials and might as well be call
ed an interloper But you have given
me a cali to speak, and. like a Metho
dist minister, | have responded. 4
few OF US got together in my Office at
Springfield yesterday and elected our
selves as sympathetic visitors to this
convention. We have no Republican
party organized in Springfield at this
time. but we have a few Republicans.
| fOresee trouble ahead that Will grow
ont of this uncalled for repeal of the
Missouri compromise that Will tax the
wisest and most patriotic men to keep
American citizens from imbruing their
hands in their brothers blood.
Then. for | can remember his ex-
act words no further, he drew a pic
ture Of slavery and its banefnI effects
on this country if extended, and deliv-
cred the most terrible inyectIve upon
that institution, it seemed 10 me. that
ever fell from the lips Of man [ re
member he said at the close something
like this: Come what viii you may
count on Abraham Lincoln to STAY
a.jth you to the bitter end on the side
Of free soil and the rights Of free men.
But l do not pretend to remember
more. When the speech was finished
1 found myself standing at the top Of
the reporters table, shouting and yel-
ling like one possessed. Every Que
present was wrought up to the same
condition
IA }engfb 7 betIonUht mo Of rov
notes for he Tribune. I had none, In
nv excitement | had on;fa forgoitnn
nv dntias az rpnortoT fnrSel to
INV fellow rerortars They wara IN
the same fix and for the same reason
The speqch was nof rnnortad and
never can he raprodured from nom
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DuIInE the sehatoflaI campaign OF
looo, Whlch engaged Alr, Llnoln's ac.
IlFlII oeIoLe ne became an aFoWed
lTodil met him often on 6olit;cai
business When he want "a Snr;ne,
field he dined several timas at TIE
Lincoln house and partook of the fare
prepared bv Mrs. Lincoln's hands
Even at this early time MIR. NediIl
formed the opinio6. which his snbse-
auent experience ONLY confirmed that
lIr. Lincoln was of all the "practirai
politicians Of the dav the koenest
and the shrewdest. In orranizincy a
party. securing the dOubtfrI votes Inv
presenting the issues rightly before
them. and in sll the details Of -Drscti-
caI'' work Of campaign Lincoln had
10 equal among Republicans in hi
n0is in those davs. TO send ciIinina
TO a farmer sick with the prnyailino
illness Of the frontier. "feyer'p aonn.s
was said to be one of his favoritp de-
vices. He had master hand at o;r
cuIars. He sometimes addressed them
to my friends" signed A. Iincolp 5"
st other times be wrote the addresses
and circulars which were signed by
the central committee.
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sli''s MI i1lllcoiH GtliyetGd IN me
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thj,t famous sPeech.-tamous Tor ITS
toat -, ,.t;s,n f''lIiL6 LoL lre qIlllna9e
;isolf ..raaicaII,, ,,,,,a,yo " S,,b { 'Ii,i6 -
,nant- wnra H. ol,.o,o 2,In f f7tLl ~
DnbIic sentiments Of that 'tIT t;n,o - AVN, .l,o
81 tbo ra5;caI To,.tharn 1tnt,, '+.-te, oSi "a
Mr. lincoln was consijaro9 ~, not -, y
few of hi. frian1s 70 baTo r,,J,,,,;ttoJ a. !
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mpnt that a deiibaTata ,lotivo Ia,, ~, no
hind. IT was not. however until yn9re
thereafter when Mr. Tincoln vas
president that onnortnni4Z- offnroI -
confirm this surmisa For Win all
his bonhonmio and annarent o. OMEN ~
ness. AIr. Lincoln was a most secrdtive
man. even to his friends. But visiting
at the White House in the course Of
the civil war, Mr.. Medill found the
president in a mood which seemed
favorable to confidence. Why did
YOU deliver that very radical speech
at the state house in the spring Of
1852
With what seemed like afracta5
surprise Mr. Lincoln evc7aimej ~0~,
Then. lansing into reserve, he mt tba