BY DAVID OVER.
(Sompaigtt longs.
From the Press qnd Tribune.
Honest Abe of the West.
Alß —"Star Spangled Banner."
O hark! from the pine-crested hills of old Maine,
Where the splendor first falls from the wings of
the morning,
And away in the West, over river and plain,
Kings out the grand anthem of Liberty's warning!
From green rolling prairie it swells to the sea,
For the people have risen, victorious and free;
They have chosen their leaders, and bravest and
Of them all is Old Abe, Honest Abe of the West!
The spirit that fought for the patriots of old
Has swept through the land and aroused us for
ever;
In the pure air of Heaven a standard unfold
Fit to Marshal us 011 to the sacred endeavor!
Proudly the tiauner of freemen we bear;
Noble the hojies that encircle it there,
And where battle is thickest we follow tiie crest
Of gallant Old Abe, llonest Abe of the West!
There's a triumph in urging a glorious cause,
Though the hosts of the foe for a while may be
stronger,
Pushing on for just rulers and holier laws,
Til! their lessening columns oppose us no longer.
But ours the loud jaean of men who have past
Through tho struggle of years, aad are victors
at last;
• So forward the flag! leave fo Heaven the rest,
Aud trust in Old Abe, Honest Abe of the West!
Lo! ee the bright scroll of the Future unfold!
Bro .d farms and fair cities shall crown our devo
tion—
Free labor turn even the sands into gold,
And the links >f her railways chain ocean to
ocean;
Bar :- s shall float on the dark river waves
H ill) a wealth uever wrung from the sinews of
si IVOS,
And the Chief, in whose rule ail the land shall bo
biest
Is our noble Old Abe, Honest Abe of the West!
Then on to the holy lie-publican strife!
Ana again; for a Future as fair as the morning,
For tin sake of that freedom more precious than
life.
King out the grand anthem of Liberty's warning!
Lift tho banner on high, while from mountain
to plain
Tho cheers of the people are sounded again;
Hurrah! for our cause—of all causes the best;
Hurrah! tor t'ld Abe, llonest Abe of the West!
UtR RAH FOR ABU LINCOLN
AID.—<>Boatman Dance."
Hurrah, hurrah, did you hear the news?
1 he Democrats have got the blues;
They 're puzzled now, and all afraid
Because we've nominated ABE,
Chorus —Hi! ho! we'll put them through
Split their rails and haul them too.
111! ho! we ? ll put them through,
Split their rails and haul them too.
In ; 11 their ranks they cannot find
A candidate to suit their mind;
They kick and squirm, but 'tis no use,
Tb ir game is up, their platform's loose.
They know that they will loose the day
If they take up with Stephen A ;
Ami so to add to their humbug swell
I think they'd better take up Bell.
I hour they've bought an old steain tug,
On which to place poor little DOUG;
For President too late they've found,
His coa: tail conies too near the ground.
We'll give them HAM enough this tail,
To satisfy them < ne and all;
Served up in style quite neat and plain,
Juu imported from old Maine.
Hurrah! hurrah! we are sure to win,
And the way we'll beat will he a sin;
The coming year's impending blast,
Will show them they have crowed their last.
From the Delaware County Republican.
Lincoln is the Word.
TUNE— Scot's wha ha'e.
Need we tell of other's fame?
We can shout Abe Lincoln's name!
His a tribute high may claim
From each honest tongue.
Gather! gather! in your might!
Who's the laggard in the fight?
Our's is just—our cause is right:
"Lincoln" is the word.
Now's the time, and he's the man,
Let the faction—let the clao,
Strive to ciush our noble plan—
Human liberty!
Strike for freedom and for home!
Falter not, success shall come;
Soon shall foes be silent, dumb
"Lincoln" is the word.
Gloriouj stripes, and brilliant stars
Victor in the olden wars—
Fear we wounds—nor fear we scars—
Our tried standard thou.
Rally! rally! in your might!
Who's the laggard in the fight?
Ours is just—our cause is right—
"Lincoln" is the word.
HOMELY AS HENRY CLAY —In personal ap
pearance Mr. Lincoln is long, loan and wiry.
) coniploxion is about that of an octoroon. —
I has dark, bristly short hair, tinged with gray,
a good forehead, stuall eyes, a long penetrating
hose, and a uiouth, which, aside from being of
uiignificeut proportions, is probably the most
' Xf tssive features of hia face.
Liueolu" is a good name iu American his
io . In 1781, at York town, Cornwall it sur
">n red his sword to "OLD HEN LINCOLN,"
and aded the war to extended British Tyfanny
over "s. Eighty years after, at Washing-town,
Buu nan will yield the keys to "OLD AE
LINCOLN," (a relative of said Hen,") aud eud
the preaeut con test for Slavery Extcusiou.
A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Ac., Ac—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Gents in Advance.
[Tho following biography of Abraham Lin
coln, was written by Joseph 8. Lewis, Esq., of
West Chester, Pa., in February last. Mr.
Lewis is an able statesman and a gentleman of
honor and truth. This sketch of the next
President of the United Steies, was prepared
at that time so that the people of Pennsylva
nia might vote understandingly at the Cbioago
Convention for one of the most prominent
candidates who would he brought beforo that
body.]
From the Chester County Times.
Abraham Lincoln.
Among the distinguished men, who, by their
patriotism and eloquence, have assisted to
create aud sustain tho party of constitutional
freedom which uow predominates in most of
the free States, there is no one who has a firmer
hold on the confidence aud affections of the
people of the Great West, or is more an olgect
of their enthusiastic admiration, than ABRAHAM
LINCOLN of Spriugfield, Illinois. No traveller
that visits tho valley of the Mississippi north
of the Ohio, can fail to he impressed with the
unrivalled populirity of that emioeut Repub
lican chief throughout that whole region ; and
it is impossible to doubt that he was vigorously
pressed upon the Chicago Convention, by the
representatives of a large and earnest constitu
ency, us a proper standard-bearer of our great
national party in the impeudiug struggle for
the Presidency. Iu eou.sequeuce of the position
he occupies in the regards of our western
frethren as achampi n sf the Republican faith,
we have been interested to inquire into the in
cidents of his life aud the promineut traits of
hisjehuraoter. W now furnish you with the re-
Milt of our inquiries, though they have been
attended with but moderate success, and have
elicited much less tbau we reasonably hoped to
obtain.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN is a native of Hardin
County, Kcutucky. He was born on the
twelfth day of February, 1801). His parents
were both born iu Virgiuia, and were certainly
not of the first families. His paternal grand
father, Abraham L ncolu,emigrated from llook
ingham county, Virginia, to Kentucky, about
1781 or 1782, where a year or two liter, he
was killed by the Indiana, not in battle, but by
stealth, white he was laboring to open a farm
in the forest. His ancestors, who were re
spectable members of of Frreuds,"
wont to Virgiuia from Berks county, Pennsyl
vania. Doceudauts of the same stock still re
side iu the eastern parts of the State.
Mr. Lincoln's father, at the death of /lis
father, was but six years of age, and he grew
up literally without cducatiuu. He removed
from Kentucky to what is now Bpeucer county,
Indiana, iu 181'\ The family reached their
new home about tho time '.be State was ad
mitted iaio the Union. Toe region iu which
they settled was rude and wild, uud they eu
dured, for some years, tho experience of a
frontier life, in which the struggle with nature
for existence and security is to be maintained
ouiy by constant vigilance and efforts. Bears,
wolves and other uuxious animals still iafeoted
the woods, and }oung Lincoln acquired more
skill in the use of the rillc thau Knowledge of
books. There were institutions here aud there,
known by the flattering denomination of
"sebools," but no quulficatious was required ot
a teacher beyond "rcadin', writing ami cipher
in'," us tho vernacular phrase rau, as far as the
liule ot three. If a straggler, supposed to
undcrstand k Latin, happened to sojourn iu the
neighborhood, he was looked upou as a wizird,
and regarded with an awe suited to so myste
rious a characier. Hard work, aud plenty of
h, was the order of the day, varied, indeed, by
au accasional beai-hunt, a not (infrequent deer
chase, or other wild sport. Of course, when
youug Lincolu came of age he was not a
scholar. He could read aud write, aud had
some knowledge of arithmetic, but that was
about all; aud, as yet, he had but little aui.
bitiou to know more of what was to he found
iu books. His attaiumeuts otherwise were Dot
to be despised. He bad growu to be six feet
four inches in stature, was active aud athletic,
could wield the axe, direct the plow, or use the
rifle as well as the best of Lis compeers, aud
was fully up to all the mysteries of the woods,
to the deeper mysteries of Drairie farming, and
fuliy iuuured to hardship and toil. iSiueo he
arrived at age, he has not been at school. —
Whatever his acquirements arc, they have boon
picked up from time to time, as opportunity
occurred, or as the presence of some exigency
demanded.
At twenty one be removed to Iliiuois and
passed* the first year in Macon county, in active
labor on a farm. Then be got to Mew Saleiu,
at that time Sangamon, now in Menard county,
wLero be remained about a year, as a sort of
clerk in a store. Then came the Jilack Hawk
war. A company of volunteers was raised in
New Salem and the surrounding country, and
youug Lmcolu was elected captain—a success
which, as be baa often said, gave bitn more
pleasure tbau auy be has since enjoyed, 110
served with credit duriug the campaign, and
became popular. On bis return, iu the fall of
lbd2, be was a candidate for the Legislature,
and run, but was beaten. This was the ouly
time that be has ever failed of au election by
the people, wheu be has sought their suffrages,
lue next and three succeeding biennial eleo
tions be was elected to the Legislature, and
served with distinguished reputatiou In that
body. While a member of the Legislature, he
first gave indications of bis superior powers as
u debater, and be lucreasod, by frequent prac
tice, bis natural facility for publio speaking.—
His iateut ambition was excited by success,
aud be improved industriusiy the opportunities
that offered of seif-cultivatiou. From the
position of a subaltern iu the ranks of the Whig
party, a position wbicb was appropriately as
signed bim by bis unaffected modesty aud bum
ble pretensions, be soon became recognized
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1860.
and acknowledged as a champion and a leader,
and his unvaring courtesy, good nature aud
genial manners, uuited with a certain lofty
disinterestedness, and generous abnegation of
self, that made him a universal favorite.
During his legislative period, he studied law,
and removing to Springfield, he opened an of
fice and engaged actively in practice. Busi
ness flowed in upon him, and he rose rapidly to
distinction in his profession. He displayed
remaikable ability as an advocate in jury trials,
and many of his law arguments were master
pieces of logical reasoning. There was no
refined aitifioiality in his forensic efforts.—
They all bore the stamp of mascut*e common
sense ; and he had natural, easj mode of il
lustration, that made the most aTWtraSe sub
jects appear plain, ilis success at the bar,
however, did not withdraw his attention from
polities. For many years he was the "wheel
horse" of the Whig party in the State of Illi
nois, aud was on the electoral ticket iu several
Presidential campaigns. At such times, he
canvassed the State with his usual vigor and
ability, lie was an ardent friend of llenry
Clay, and exerted himself powerfully in his
behalf in 1844, traversiug the entire State of
Illinois, and addressiug. public meetings daily,
until near the close of the campaign, when
becoming convinced that his labors in field
would bo unavailing, he crossed over into In
diana, aud continued his efforts <>n to the day of
the election. The contest of that year iu Illi
nois was mainly on the question of the tariff.
Mr. Lincoln ou the Whig side, and John Cal
houn, on the Democratic side, ftere the heads
cf the opposing electoral tickets. Calhouu,
late of Nebraska, now dead, was then in the
full vigor of his really great powers, aud was
accounted the greatest debater of his party. —
They stumped tho State together, or nearly so,
making speeches usually on alternate days at
each place, and each addressing 1 irge uudieuees
at great length, sometimes four hours together.
Mr. Lincoln, in these elaborato speeches,
evinced a thorough mastery of the pnucip'es
of political economy which underlie the tariff
question, and presented arguments in favor of
the protective policy with a power and con
clusiveness rarely equalled, and at the same
time in a manner so lucid and familiar, and so
well interspersed with happy illustrations and
apposite anecdotes as to secure the delighted
attention of bis auditory *
Mr. Lincoln has been a consistent aud earn
est tariff man from the first hour of his enter
ing public life. Ila is such from priuciple, and
from a deeply rooted conviction of the wisdom
of the protective policy; aud whatever iutiuence
he uiav hereafter exert upon the goverameut
will be in favor of that policy.
In 1840 he was elected to Congress and
served out his term ; and he would have been
reelected had ho not declined to bo a candi
date. As to the character of his services, ia
that body, my information does cot euable me
to speak particularly.
In the National Convention of 1848, of
which be was a member, he'aavoted the nomi
nation of Gen. Taylor, and sustained the nomi
nation by an active anl energetic eanvass of
his own State. In 1852 he was equally effi
cient in his efforts for Gen. Seott, and was
considered by the Whigs of Illinois and the
Northwest as one of their ablest aud wisest
leaders.
From 1349 to 1854, Mr. Lincoln was en
gaged assiduously in the practice of his pro
fession, and being deeply immersed in business,
was beginning to lose bis interest in politics,
when the scheming ambition and groveling
selfishness of an unscrupulous aspirant to the
Presidency brought about, the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise. That act of baseness
aud perfidy aroused the sleeping lion and he
prepared for new efforts. Ho threw himself
at once iuto tho contest that followed and
fought, tho battle of freedom on tho grouud of
bis former conflicts in liliuois with more than
his accustomed energy and zeal. 11c fully ap
preciated the importance of the slavery issue,
and felt the force of the moral causes that
must iuflueuce the question, and he never fail
ed to appeal to the moral sentiment of the
people iu aid of tbo argument drawn from
political sources, and to illuminate his theme
with the lofty inspirations of an eloquence,
pleadiug for the rights of humanity. A revo
lution swept the State. F'or the first time a
majority of the Legislature of liliuois was op
posed to tho Democratic administration of the
Federal government. They were not, however,
all Free-Soilers in principle. A'small body of
anti-Nebraska Democrats held the baluuce of
power. This circumstance gave oeoasion for a
striking exhibition of Mr. Lincoln's habitual
magnanimity. A United States Senator was to
be elected in place of Gen. Shields, who had
yielded to the influence of his less scrupulous
colleague and against his own better judgment
voted for the Kansas-Nebraska act. Mr. Lin
coln was the admitted leader of the opposition
and was uuiversally regarded as their candi
date for Senator. Governor Mattcsou was tho
candidate ef tho Nebraska Democrats and
Lymau Trumbull of the handful of Anti-Ne
braska Democrats in the Legislature. The
election came on, and a number of ballots
wero taken, the almost united opposition voting
for Liucolu, but a few Anti-Nebraska Demo
crats lor Trumbull. Mr. Lincoln became ap
prehensive that those men would vote for and
elect Matteson, and to preveut suob a consum
mation ho went personally to his friends aud
by strong persuasiou iuduced them to vote for
Truuubull. He thus secured, by au act of
generous self-saorifiee, a triumph of tbo cause
of right, aud an advooato of it on tho floor of
the Senate, uot inferior in earnest zeal for the
principles of Republicanism to any member of
that body. It was not without difficulty, bow
ever, that this object was accomplished. The
opposition throughout the Stato had with great
unanimity looked to Mr. Lincoln to represent
Illinois in tho Senate, aud was with groat re-
luotance that their representatives in the Leg
islature could be iuduoed to disappoint their
constituents by giving their votes to another.
1* rom bis thorough conviction of the growing
magnitude of the slave questiou and of the need
of a strong effort to preserve tho territories to
freedom, Mr. Lincoln was among the first to
join in the formation of (he Republican party,
although the public opinion around him was
strongly adverse to that movemont. He exert
ed himself for the organization of the Repub
lican lorces iu Illinois, and attended the first
Republican Gonvention held in the State. That
VTjrs at BloomingtoD in May, 1856. His speech
itt that Gonvention was of surprising power aud
eloquence, and produoed great effect. In the
contest of that year Mr. .Lincoln was at the
head of the Illinois electoral ticket, and labor
ed earnestly, though vainly, to wrest that State
from the grasp of the pro-Slavery Democracy,
with "the walking magazine of mischief," as
Douglas has been appropriately termed, at its
h#id.
AVbcu the campaign of 1858 was about to
°0J a of the Republican party of Illi
nois was so unanimous and enthusiastic iu his
favor as the successor of Judge Douglas, that
it, a fqll State Gouvention of over five hundred
delegates, the unusual step was takeu of nom
inating him tor that offijc by acclamation.—
I'be enthusiasm of the delegates in convention
'.•xtendea to their constituents. The party
wait into the contest with the name of Lincoln
on all their banners, instituted Lincolu clubs,
wore Lincoln badges uud held Lincoln meet
ings at almost every school house ia the State.
The respective parties were marshalled under
leaders, who were fitting representatives of the
principles of each. Lincoln, the consistent ad
vocate of institutional government, coguizaDt
of indefeasible rights, and auimared aud con
trolled by a SCDSO of human responsibility in
dependent of conventional rules, placed him
self upon the battlements of the constitution,
and summoned to bis side the friends of law,
order, aud humanity. Douglas, iu the spirit of
a system which assigus all power to a majority
aod flatters the people in the concrete, while it
cheats the individual of all security for his per
sonal rigbt6, appealed to popular prejudice and
to the antipathies of Jfece. The one held sla
very to be an institution in conflict with the
principles of free government, wholly depen
d-sju upon posUiv* law,'•and.never ur l& extend
ed whore it could be legitimately prohibited;
while the other averred that the despotic will
of any majority, though of a commuuity exist
ing only in a state of pupilage under the guar
dianship of federal authority, ought to be com
petent to establish it without question by tLat
authority and without regard to moral consid
erations. The contest excited iutense interest
and was maintained with infinite spirit. Lin-
COID, after vainly attempting to draw his wary
opponent into ajoiut canvass ot the entire
•State, met him iu seven great debates in as
many Congressional Districts, and in the opin
ion of every candid judge fairly overthrew
him in argument ou ail controverted poiuts.—
The result was, that though a majority of tho
popular vote was obtained by Liucolu, Douglas
obtained by the instrumentality of au old and
unequal apportionment of the districts a major
ity of the Representatives, and thus secured |
his re-cleetiou to the U. S. Senate
SiDce that great contest, Mr. Liucolu has
repeatedly given his powerful aid, iu support
of the Republican cause iu other States, as iu
Ohio, Wisconsin, and Kansas during the present
year, aud, iu every instance, be has been re
ceived with enthusiasm by the people, evincive
of the hold he has on the popular heart.—
Wherever be speaks be draws together large
crowds of interested listeners, upon whom ho
never fails to make a marked impression.—
Though a ready and flueul speaker, ho avoids
declamation, and is never betrayed into mere
word*paiutiug, whieii his good taste habitually
rejects. He abhors emptiness as heartily as
did the great Webster in his prime, and employs
as the vehicle of his thoughts a style of sin
gular clearness and simplicity. In his state
ment of facts be is scrupulously accurate, and
to every opponent he exhibits tbo utmost fair
ness, candor, and liberality, retorting no abuse,
but preserving an unfailing courtesy even uuder
the severest provocation. His manuer is earn
est, his arguments close and logical, and be
reaches his conclusions by a process tbat seems
to render those conclusions inevitable. Wheth
er you agreo with hitu or not you cannot listen
to him without being satisfied of bis sincerity,
and tbat bis object is not victory but truth.
Iu private life Mr. Lincoln is a strictly moral
aud temporate man, of frank and engaging
manners, of kiud and genial nature, unaffect
edly modest, social in disposition, ready iu con
versation, and passing easily from grave to gay
and from gay to grave, according to the humor
of the hour or tho requirements of the occasion,
a firm friend and yet not implacable to an ene
my, a consistent politician, a good citizen, aud
au honest patriot.
FALLING INTO LINE. — Duriug tho last Pre
sidential canvass, the old Whig party was dis
tracted and divided, and many of itu members
sought refuge in tbo rauks of tho so called
Democracy. We learn by the following from
the Lancaster Examiner, that our old frtends
in that county are returning to their former
party associations:
"The Chicago nominees arc doing a glorious
work in the 'Old Guard' already. Old line
Whigs, who, in a moment of kindly neighborly
feeling, oonseoted to go tor Mr. Ruchanan in
1856, are ou all sides (ailing into line in sup
port of that bravo old Whig champion iu arms,
Abraham Lincoln. The signs of the times
argue well for au old fashioned majority of
five or six thousand in Lancaster county, no
matter who is' nominated as tbo Democratic
candidate."
Address of Che People's State Com
mittee ot Pennsylvania. *
To the people of Penrnylvania
We aro about to enter upon another great
National struggle, the issue of which must tell
decisively for the weal or woe of our commoD
country.
The so called Democratic party has been in
power for nearly eight years, and the fruits of
its policy arc- now felt in a prostrate Industry,
a paralyzed Commerce, a bankrupt Treasury
and a large and steadily increasing National
Debt.
The domestic peace aud harmony that wit
nessed tho restoration of the party now in
power, have been wantonly exchanged for sec
tional discord and fraternal strife; and even
the sacred landmarks of the Constitution have
been blotted out, in tho systematic effort of
tho Government to spread the blight of slave
ry over Free Territory, iu defiance the pop
ular will.
Corruption has gained undisputed niastery
iu almost every department of power, and
stamped its fearful stain indelibly upon the
Government, and shameless profligacy has giv
en us National" bankruptcy at home and na
tional dishonor abroad.
The time has come when a thorough reform
is unuiistakcably demanded by tho people. Iu
this great work, Pennsylvania must, as ever,
be potential. Always loyal in the last degree
to the maintenance of the National Union, and
to the compromises of the Constitution, aud
faiihful to the supremacy of the laws, her peo
ple have no warfare to wage upon the rights of
sister States. They wiii maintaiu tLeso rights
inviolate with the same fidelity that they de
fend their own.
Our free labor is the basis of all our wealth,
our prosperity, our greatness. It has trusted
and appealed in vaiu to the party in power to
protect it. Its confidence has been ever be
trayed, iis iuterests ever sacrificed. Our un
told millions of slumbering wealth, and our
unemployed and unrequited labor, are swift
witnesses to the suicidal policy that has im
poverished us.
The studied purpose of the National Ad
ministration has been to secttonulize the Gov
ernment, and give boundless dominion to a
system that has dishonored .od beggared free
industry, isliarevec. stops h*? ,
gone.
Against this fatal sectionalism the friends of
a diversified and prosperous industry have pro- j
tested without avail. Nothing hut a radical
change of admiuistratiou can give reasonable
promise of respect for the great indus
trial interests of our State, and redress ]
from tho eDdless train of evils flowing from
the faithlessness of the Government.
The Territories of the great West teem with
beauty and richness. There, with freo homes,
our sturdy sons would rear new empires to
pour forth their boundless wealth, and add to
the prosperity and true greatness of our boast
ed Republic. They have escaped the wither
ing blight of servile labor thus far, only by
defying the whole power of two Democratic
Administrations, and leaving a history crim
soned with the blood of our brethren.
Failing to subdue, even by force, the strong
uruts that are scattering the rich fruits of
peaceful and enlightened industry, the Consti
tution itself has been assailed; aud its sacred
aims perverted, to seetionaliza the uation.—
The startling declaration is now made by the
party iu power, through its official exponents,
that the Constitution must defeat the wise aud
beneficent purposes of its author", and carry
servile labor, uuder its own'broad shield, into
every territory iu the Uuion.
To restore tho Government to its origiual
purity, to redeem it from its fatal hostility to
the inteiests of fieo labor, from the corruption
the profligacy aud the sectionalism which have
marked the party iu power, ate the gieat pur
poses of tho People's orgauization in Pennsyl
vania. To this patriotic end we invoke tho aid
aud co-operation of all who desire to join in a
common cause, to inaugurate a liberal, just and
faithful Govcrnmeut.
Our standard bearers fitly represent the vi
tal issues involved iu the struggle. Tiicy com
couuuand tbo uubounded confidence of friends,
and the respect of foes. Even partisan mal
ice is impotent to assail them. That Abraham
Liucolu, the nominee for President, is spotless
in both public and private life, and that he is
bousst and capable, is confessed as with one
voice by bis couutrymen. His well earned na
tional tauie, tbo offspring of no fortuitous cir
cumstances, points to him as the "coming
man" who will administer tbo Government
houestly, frugally aud faithfully, and restore
the Republic to domestic tranquility, to pros
perity, aud to honor. Truo to those great
measures of reform is Hannibal ilamliu, our
candidate for Vice President, as is thowu by
his long and consistent public career iu the
councils of the nation.
Audrew G. Gurtin, our nominee for Gover
nor, has giveu a lifetime of earnest, untiring
effort to the interests of free labor. He has
advocated in every contest, with all his uiateh
less power, the tiue principles of governmeus,
as declared by the Couveution tbat has placed
hiut before the people. Measured by the high
est standard, he is faithlul and qualified. He
will "be in tho front of the battle, bearing our
standard aloft, and defending our cause. Wo
have but to join him iu his efforts with a zeal
worthy of our principles, and he will lead us
to a decisive victory IU October.
Whether our oppoueuts will enter tho euu
tcst united or divided, our duties aud dangers
will be the same. Iu any event, the triumph
of the right will be resisted with the spirit of
desperatioo. Armed with all the power and
ooriupt appliances of the government, they will
leave no means uutried, no effort unemployed
to perpetuate their asoendancy. Although
rent asunder with iutestine feuds, antagonized
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[ of North and South by irreconcilable differences '
of priuciple, and bleeding from wounds inflicted
within their own household, yet there is one
common bond of union that will rally their
discordant forces when all else fails—that is,
"the cohesive power of public plunder."
Our cause is worthy of an earnest, united
effort. Our languishing industry,, oui hornc
| less laborers, our bankrupt treasury, our na
| tional tranquility and national honor demand
it. With early, systematic and thorough or
ganization, by which the truth cau be dissemi
| nated in every section of the State, we cannot
fJil to triumph. Let the efforts of our friends
j be thus directed without delay, and in whatev
er shape and under whatever flag our oppo-
I neuts may determine to meet us, the voice of
the Keystone State will give a decisive victory
I to our oaase, alike in the State and National
struggles.
A. K. McCLURK,
Chairman.
People's State Committee Rooms, )
Philadelphia, June 7, 1860. J
THE CINCINNATI PLATFORM A SWINDLE.
—We commend the following extract from a
speech of Avery, of North Carolina, in the
Charleston Convention. It corroborates all
that the Republicans have alleged concerning
the Cincinnati platform:
lie would say, never yield one inch upon
the abolition question, but meet it boldly, fair
ly, squarely. lie asked them whether this is
sue was met boldly, fairly and squarely upon
this squatter sovereignty platform? The Cin
cinnati platform is ambiguous. We at the
South say it means one thing—they at the
North say it means another. We a6k yon now
to settle its moaning. We say, take a boltf
stand, and declare what it really means, bold
ly, openly and thoroughly. The minority say
they are willing to leavo its interpretation to
the Supreme Court. That is no convenience
to the South. They take it for granted that
all Democrats ore law abiding citizens, and if
so, when a decision of the Supreme Court is
made, adverse to their views, they will sub
mit it to it as a matter of course. It is no so
lution of the question, no settlement of the
issue satisfactorily, in the South, to say,
'Leave.huto. the Courts. "
MR. HAMLIN'S DEMOCRACY - . —ln announc
ing the nomination of Mr. Hamlin for the Vice
Presidency, the Ohio Statesman (Democratic)
has the bad taste to say that until "within the
last six years that gentleman was an out and
out and ultra Democrat, but bavicg quarreled
with his party, was discarded by it." To this
the Cincinnati Commercial very properly re
plied as follows:
"Mr. Hamlin never 'quarreled with his par
ty,' and was never 'discarded by it.' On the
contrary, he is just as much of a democrat as
ever he was, ami it was the democratic vote of
Maine—which could not be cheated nor driven
into the support oi the Slave Democracy—
which elected Hamlin Governor in 1856, by
by 25,000 majority, and U. S. Senator the
next year. That Maiae has always been a
Democratic State, is a fact as notorions as any
in our political history. Her peop'6 have
chosen to stay democratic, while the shaui de
mocracy, to which the Statesman belongs, have
gone over to despotism. That's all.
BEHOLD HOW THESE BRETHREN LOVE ONE
ANOTHER ! —Some of the Douglas Delegates
to Charleston are telling rather hard stories to
their constituents, in Cincinnati. One dele
gate (Wood) said, Mr. Logan, a Douglas man,
attempted to speak from the steps of the Mills
House, but the mcb shut him up:
"He found the Southern representatives in
the Convention fire eaters. In view of these
facts, he felt proud to think that the North
west voted as one man, for thero were two
men, delegates from Minnesota, who had been
bought—who voted agaiost Douglas."
A voice—"Give us their names."
Mr. Wood—"I prefer not to give the names.
Wo have got their daguerrootypes, and the
next time you go to New York, you will find
them in the llogue's Gallery." Cheers. *
A PRINTER FOR VICE PRESIDENT.—Hanni
baI Haiulin commenced life as a farmer boy,
and afterwards became a printer, and continu
ed "setting up type" till be oommeneed the
study of the law. lie was admitted to the Bar
iu 1833, when he was 24 yeare of age.
Lincoln and Hamlin, alike in many points of
character, aud within a few months of the samo
age, both arose from humble but honorablo
occupations of working men. Both commenc
ed life on a farm; both sprung from the work
ing people; both struggled through a youth of
work and difficulties to an honorable manhood;
both have been tho "architects of their own
fortunes;" both are eminently "self-icade
tnen."
It is such men tho people love to honor. Two
Farmer boys of 1809, will be at tho li9ad of
tlic National Government in 1861.— Chicago
Journal.
Hon. Andy Stewart, so long and well known
ar "tariff Audy," wus present at a Republican
ratification meeting at Counellsvilld on Friday,
and made a first rate speech in favor of our
nominees. Ho urges upon the farmers, the
mechanics aud Üboriug men of ull classs the
necessity of a chango iu the Aduiiuiatratiou of
the Government. Ho had tcrved in Congress
with "Honest Old Abe Lincoln," and knew
bint to he the frieud of the laboring turn.