BEDFORD INQUIRER. BEDFORD, Fa. Friday Morning, July 20, 1860. FEARLESS AND FREE." D. OY ER—Editor and Proprietor. FOR PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OF ILLINOIS. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, HANNIBAL HAMLIN, OF MAINE. ELECTORS. HON. JAMES POLLOCK. HON. THOMAS M. HOWE. |l3 F. B. Penniman. 14 Ulysses Mercur, 15 George Brissler, lt> A. B. Sharp, 17 Daniel O. Gebr, 118 Samuel Calvin, 119 Edgar Cowan, i2O William M'Kennan, ;21 J. M. Kirbpatrick, |22 James Kerr, 28 Richard P. Roberts, 24 Henry Souther, l Greer. I Edward C. Knight , II Robert P. King, 3 Henry Butnm, 4 Robert M. Foust, 6 Nathan Hills, 6 John M. Bromail, 7 James W. Fuller, 8 Levi B.Smith, 9 Francis W. Christ, 10 David Mumina, Jr., 11 David Taggart, IS Thomas R- Hull, 25 Johi FOR GOVERNOR, ANDREW G. CUR TIN. OF CENTRE COUNTY. JOi- r=^ COUHTY TICKET, ASSEMBLY, 0. If. ASHCOM, Broadtop Township. E M. SCHROCK, Somcr?et County. FEOTIIOXOTARY, JEREMIAH K. BOWLES, Bodlotd Tp. SHERIFF, GKOKGE S. MULLIN, Napier Tp. COMMISSIONER, JONATHAN FICUTNER, Londonderry Tp. POOR DIRECTOR, SAMUEL SCHAFER, Union Tp. A EDITOR, D. D. ESIILEMAN, MUtile Woodberry Tp. CORONER, JARED HANKS, Southampton Tp. THE TARIFF. [Twelfth Resolution in the Chicago Platform, on which Lincoln and Hamlin were nominated:] "That while providing revenue for the support of the General Government by duties upon imposts, SOUND POLICY REQUIRES SUCH .IN AD JUSTMENT OF THESE IMPOSTS AS TO ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDUSTRIAL INTEREST OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY, AND WE COMMEND THAT POL ICY OF NATIONAL EXCHINGES WHICH SECURES TO THE WORKINGMEN LIBER AL WAGES. TO AGRICULTURE REMUNE RATING PRICES. TO MECHANICS AND MANUFACTURERS AN ADEQUATE RE WARD FOR THEIR SKILL, LABOR AND ENTERPRISE, AND TO THE NATION COM MERCIAL PROSPERITY AND INDEPEND ENCE." THE VOICE OF CLAY "As long as God allows th* vital current to flow through my veins, I wilt never, never, never, by wo>d or thought, by mind or will, aid in admitting one rood of FREE TERRITORY to the KVERLASTING crass: OF HUMAN BONDAGE." THE VOICE OF WEBSTER. "I feel that there t nothing unjust nothing of which any honest man can complain, if he is intelli gent, and I feel thai there is nothing of which the civilized world, if they take notice of so humble an individual as myself, will reproach me, when I say, as I said the other day, that 1 have made up my mind, for one, THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE WILL I CONSENT TO THE EXTENSION OF THE AREA OF SLAVERY IN THE UNI TED STATES, OR TO THE FURTHER IN CREASE OF SLAVE REPRESENTATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ii Sir, whenever there is a particular good to be done—whenever there is a foot of land to be staid back from becoming slate territory—l AM READY TO ASSERT THE PRINCIPLE OF THE EX CLUSION OF SLAVERY." VISITORS AT BEDFORD SPRINGS. Among the persons now visiting Bedford Springs, are EX-GOT. Wm. F. Johnston, Hon. Edward McPherson, of Gettysburg, Judge Thomp son, of the Supreme Court, Bishop Bowman, of Lancaster, Judge Sharswood, of Philadelphia, Hon. Carroll Npence, late Minister to Constanti nople, Judge Conyngham, of Luzerne, Nath. El maker, Esq., of Lancaster, YVm. S. Stewart, of Philadelphia, James VVat6on, Esq , of Washing ion. Pa., arid Rev. Geo. D. Purviance. of Balti more. befides a great many other prominent persons from ail parts of (he country. Mr. W. Davis and family are now* visiting this nlace. Mr. Davis is a prominent citizen of the home of "Honest Abe," and he is personally acquainted with the futare Pre - derit of the United States. He testifies to the character and talents of Mr. Lincoln in the high est terms, and gives a glowing account of his prospects in Illinois. No Stale in the Union is more certain for Mr. Lincoln Uian his own COMING BACK— A number of old line Whigs and Americans, in Bedford County, who left us on account of the charge of SECTIONALISM ! They find out now that ours is the only NATIONAL par ty, and that both wings of Locofocoism are SEC TIONAL. We hope to hearcl at! ol this class of voters buiog bark to ife*r first iove by the elec tion. Cj r.CL'L.VIK X'th DoCUItHtTS. W# will send the Bedford Inquirer to siugle subscri bers ti'i the vveck aft =.r the- election for 50 cts.; p.ud c',uo.i o! five tod upsvirds at the rate of Wi i each—cash in advance. Circulato tho '.♦CtAtlA. nf- Lincoln and fnrtin Steeling, THE FIRES BURNING BRIGHTLY ! The Lincoln Club of the Borough of Bedford met in thd County Hail on Tuesday evening last. It was the largest and most enthusiastic meeting thai has been held in this place, during the pres ent campaign. At the ringing ol the bell, the Lincoln and Curtin boys commenced flocking into the hall until it was literally jammed. Af ter the organization, quite a number signed the Constitution. Hon. EDWARD McPHEnsoN,our present worthy, talented and popular Congressman, being in the meeting, was then called upon "to address the Club, and responded in a speech ot about an hour in length. To say that it was able, is scarcely doing it justice; it was argumentative and thrillingly eloquent, and did not fail to con vince every dispassionate man present of the in iquity and enormity of the present administra tion, of the Free Trade views of both wings of the Locofoco party and their leaders, Douglas and Breckinridge, and of the absolute necessity for a change of rulers. He was frequently in terrupted with the wildest bursts of applause. — Mr. AlcPher6on is justly very popular in Bed lord County. After Mr. McPherson had concluded his ad dress, several others added their names to the roll of the Lincoln Club. The Club then ad journed to meet on Tuesday evening the 31st July, ill st. From the enthusiasm thus early manifested iu the campaign by our friends, it is not predicting too much to prophesy that Lincoln will have a clear majority over both his Locofoco rivals in Bedford County, but that we will also give a majority in favor of our County, District and State tickets. Roll ort the ball, friends ! DOCTORS DIFFER. John Cessna, Esq., on bis four column Card published in the Gazette of last week, after stating the facts in a manner to suit himself, comes to the conclusion that Douglas is the regular nominee of his ptrtj lor President.— Many others, as well informed as Mr. Cessna, regard Breckiniidge as '.ho only regular nomi nee of the party, and support him accordingly. And President Buchanan, in a recent speooh made on the occasion of a Breckinridge ratifi cation meeting, spoke as follows : "I purposely avoid entering upon any dis cussiou respecting the exclusion from the Con vention of regularly elected delegates from different detuocratio Slaws. If the Conven tion which nominated Mr. Douglas was not a regular Democratic Convention, it must be confessed that Breckinridge is in the same condition in that respect. The Convention that nominated him, although it was composed of nearly all the certain democratic States, did not coutain the two thirds; and tktrejore every democrat is at perfect liberty to vote as bethinks proper, without running counter to any regular nomination of *he party. Hold ing this position, i shall present some of the reasons why 1 prefer Mr. Breckinridge to Mr. Douglas." It thus seems pretty clear that the once great democratic party has no regular nomi nee for the Presidency, and that the members of the party are under no party obligations to vote for either Douglas or Breckinridge. The fact is, LINCOLN is the only regular nominee of any party now in the field, ami all who are in favor of regular nominations should vote for him, the People's candidate, and the only mau that can win. A STRAIGHT TICKET.—R. J. Haldeman, ihe member of the Douglas National Executive Committee for Pennsylvania, has called a Con vention to meet at Harrisburg, on the 20th Ju ly, inst., for the purpose of taking up a STRAIGHT Douglas Electoral Ticket. Nothing tainted with Breckinridge will do for the Douglas wing of the Democracy. Our friends, Hons. John Cessna and Wm. P. Schell, aided by the Bedford Ga zette, have been advocating a FUSION, BARGAIN AND SAKE electoral ticket. Will they have the effrontery to send a delegate to this Convention of the TRUE friends of Stephen A. Doaglas. w ho oppose BARGAIN AND SALE? If they do appoint a delegate, ought the friends of Douglas admit him to a seat in the Convention ? As we do not belong to either wing of the SHATTERED Democ racy, we will nol attempt to answer the question. That this fight may not end like that of the Kil kenny cats, we ardently trust, but we believe it is lime that the foul, slinking carcass of Loco focoism should go down to the dust. We hope that the following notice, written for our friend "Andy," by John P. Reed, Esq., will be duly considered by all those desirous of "shuffling off this mortal coil NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED. THE subscriber, strong, robust and hearty, a free and independent yeoman of Bedford Bor ough, and a man depending on his own good right arm lor his bread, is willing to dig into mother earth, for the benefit of his fellow citi zens who have retired from the "active scenes of litetherefore any and all persons having occasion for his services will please give him a call. They can be had on the most reasonable terms, and at the shortest notice, as he is always about. ANDREW A MICK. Richard Vaux, one of the Locofoco electors at large, for this State, was written to by W. H. Welsh, Chairman of the State Central Commit tee, to know if he would, in the event of his election; vole for Douglas or Breckinridge, in case the vote of Pennsylvania would elect either. He denys Welsh's authority to interrogate him, and says that he will vote only for Douglas, and in no event for Breckinridge. So we go. The Juniata Register supports Breckinridge and Lane, and the Juniata True Democrat hoist# both Douglas and Breckinridge. The Locolocos in that County generally support Breckinridge, whilst our friends there are all united on Lincoln. Lincoln and Curtin will carry Juniati. All who do not wish to lose their voles, and who desire to be on the winning side, are com ing out for Lincoln and Curtin. A broken down party, like the Locofoco party, can have no hope of success. i i .in*- -y -J Jlj" BBBFORB IHaUIBER. COMING OCT FOR LINCOLN. —An immense meeting of persons wbo voted for Fillmore in 1856, wae held in the city of New York, on tbo 15th inst., who now support Lincoln. Lin coln's majority in the State of New York will reaoh 100.000. This meeting was addressed by Horece Greeley, R. F. Andrews, and Dan'l Ullmau, tho Fillmore caodtdate for Governor in 1856. MR. VALLADE, the celebrated arlist iu Pho tographic Painting, is now at the Springs, where, in company with Mr. Thos. R. Gettys h? has put a Gallery. Mr. Vallade, as a plain and colcred painter has few superiors, and Mr. Gettys is an excellent Photographer. All in want of a correct aud cheap picture of them selves or their friends, should give them a call. To BE SMOKED OCT — The Philadelphia "Press"' is determined that Foster shall come out publicly and say whether he supports Douglas or Breck inridge. If he don't do it, then the "Press," with thirty thousand Democrats in the Stale, will oppose him, and if he comes out for Breckin ridge, it will be no belter; if he prefers Douglas, as no doubt he does, the Breckinridge men will knife him. Poor Foster! he is in a bad way ! Are our friends in the different Townships or ganizing for the campaign ? If not, then do so at once. Let Lincoln and Curtin Clubs be or ganized in every district in the County. To work, boys, we must and we can carry Bedford County, the coming fall, if you ouly do your duty. The 'Bedford Temperance Organization met on Monday evening last, in the Court House. A very able and argumentative speech was deliv ered by Mr. J. W. Dickerson. Adjourned to meet on the third Monday evening of August.— Address by Mr. John Palmer. The shocking tragedy, a telegraphic account of which %ve published last week, occurred just over the line, in Huntingdon County, and not in Fulton, as at first stated. HARVEST. — Our farmers have pretty generally gotten in their crops. Never had we belter har vest weather or belter crops. We hear that 90 cts. are now offered for new wheat. Mr. McPhersoa. The editor of tbe Gettysburg Star and Ban ner, has been indulging himself iu a pleasure trip to Washington, Mount Vernon and else where; aud as a ooinpeosatiou to his readers for his absonce, lus been writing very interesting letters on his travels. From a late number, we copy the following reference, to tbo Hon. Edward MePherson : "We cannot close this Wlter without a pas sing allusion to our representative in Guogres? who we find as attentive to visitors while here as be is to the goucral interests of his constit uents throughout fcis district at home. We find that he is not only a favorite with his po litical associates in tho House, but also with the citizens of Washington, upon the minds of whom he is making the most pleasing impression.— Fortunately for bis constituents ho has the good will of the several Departments, and particu larly that of the Post Office,—having the first time yet to be refused any favor asked at their hands. He has affected very important changes in the postal arrangements in our own County, while in the counties of Bedford and Fultou the mail facilities have beeu greatly improved and new routes will be opened. This is more than we could have reasonably expected, when we take into consideration the bankrupt condi tion of the Post Office Department, and that everywhere else throughout tho country the mail facilities have been cut off instead of in creased. We feel proud that we can point to hioi and say be is from Gettysburg. His dis trict could do herself no greater honor, or have her interests better cared for, than by keeping him here—at least until tho people of Lis ua tivo State, or of the country at large, call him to higher and more responsible positions of trust." HON. WILLIAM P. SCHELL. This gentleman is prominently before the people of this district as a candidate for Con gressional honors. Personally, we have the warmest feelings of respeot for Mr. Soheli: but politically we consider him peculiarly objection able. If we are not mistaken, he voted against tbe ooDfirmation of Mr. Burrowes as State Su perintendent of Public Schools, solely because he was not a Democrat. He also voted sgaiost tbe Tariff resolutions last winter, and not con tent with that, entered his protest on the jour nals of tbe Senate against them. Several other of his public acts during tho past three years are equally objection a hie, but wo shall not re fer to them at present. We are happy to acoord Mr. Schell one good trait as least, and that is boldness. At the re* cent Douglas ratification meeting at Bedford he was one of the speakers, and declared em phatically for Douglas. We adrniro bouesty and boldness even in un enemy.— Juniata Sen tinel PAY HIM OFF. In 1852 the Democratic party carried tho Presidential election by an unprccedeot major ity. Gen. Pierce oarried all tbe States in the UnioD, but four. The Whig party beiDg so hopelessly beaten, abandoned the field in des pair; and thore remained no organized opposi tion to the Democracy. Less than two years after the victory of the Democratic party, un der Pierce, Stephen ARNOLD Douglas com menced his attack upou tbe Democracy by throw ing into tbe political arena tbe apple of dieoord, and now, as a necessary consequence of his inoendisrism,the Democratic party oannct carry one State iu the North, East of the Rooky Mountains. The whole of the discord iu tho party is the fault of Douglas. The old, life long members of the party owe him a small debt which they can now pay, and if they do not, it will be because they are not possessed of the independence and manhood they have always, heretofore, claimed. MR LINCOLN'S APOSTROPHE ON THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. We have been requested to republish a por tion of one of Mr. Lincoln's campaign speech es in 1858, embracing an eloquent impromptu on the Declaration ot Independence. It was as follows: "Tho Declaration of lodependenoe was formed by the representatives oT American liberty from thirteen States of the confedera cy— twelve of wbich wero slaveholding com munities. We need not discuss tho way'or the reason of their becoming slaveholding commu nities. It is sufficient for our purpose that all of them greatly deplored the evil, and that they placed a provision in the Constitution which tbey sapposed would gradually remove the disease by cutting off its source. This was the abolition of the slave trade. So gen eral was tho conviction—the public determi nation—to abolish the African slave trade, that the provision which I have referred to as being placed in the Constitution, declared that it should not be abolished prior to the year 1808. A constitutional provision was neces sary to prevent the people, through Congress, from putting a stop to the traffic immediately at the close/if the war. Now, if slavery bad been a good thing, would the Fathers of the Republic have taken a step calculated to di minish its beneficent influences among them selves, and snatch the boou wholly fiotu their posterity? These communities by their tepro scntatives in old Independence Hall, said to the whole world of meu, We hold theae truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal: that they are endowed with oertuiu in alienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' This was their majestic interpretation of the econo my of the Universe. This was their lofty, and wise, and noble understanding of the jus tice of the Cieator to His creatures. [Ap plause.] Yes, gentlemen, to all £1 is creatures, to the whole great family of men. In their enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on, and degraded, and im bruted by its fellows. They grasped not only ibe whole race of man then living, but tbey reached forward and seized upon the farthest posterity. They erected a beacon to guide their children and their childreos' children, and the countless myriads who should inhabit tho eurtb in other ages. Wise statesmen as they were, they knew the tendency of pros perity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up tbe doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, or uonc but Anglo Saxons, wero entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declara tion of Independence, and take courage to re new the battle which their fathers began—so that truth, and justice, and mercy, and all tho humane and Christian virtues might not be ex tinguished from the land; so that no than hereafter would daro to limit and circumscribe tbe great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built. [Loud cheers.] Now my country men, if yon bar® boats taught doctrines conflicting with the great landmarks of too Declaration of Independ ence; if you have listened to suggestions wbich would take away from its grandeur, and mutilate the symmetry of its proportions, if yoa have been inclined to believe that all men are not created equal in those inalienable rights enumerated by our chart of liberty, let me entreat you to come back. Return to the fountain whose waters spring close by the blood of the Revolution. Think nothing of me—take no thought of tho political fate of any man whomsoever—but oome back to the truths that are in the Declaration of Independ ence. You may do anything with me yon choose, if you will but heed these aacred prin ciples. You tuay not only defeat me for tbe Senate, but you may take me and put me to death. While pretending no indifference to earthly honors, I do claim to be actuated io this contest by something higher than an anxi ety for office. I charge you to drop every paltry aud insignificant thought for any man's success. It is nothing, lam nothing; Judge Douglas is nothing. But do not destroy tfiat immortal emblem of Humanity—the Declara tion of American Independence. LABORING MEN NO BETTER THAN SLAVES. Herschel V. Johnson, tb<; nomineo for Vioe President on the Douglas ticket, is a beautiful sample of Democracy to be put forward to re ceive the votes of the free laboring men of the country. He fully endorses the doctrine that laborers are mere "mud-sills" of society, and that they ought to be owned or held as slaves by those who employ thom. He belongs to that class of Southern men who regard all working men in tho free States as "greasy mechanics" and "small-fisted farmers." We should like to know what mechanic or day laborer having any respeot for himself, can vote for Johnson. Not only in Georgia has ho ad vocated such infumous doctrines, hut he has in sulted tbe freemen of the Koystooe State by proclaiming it within her own borders. In a speech delivered at Philadelphia, September 17th, 1856, Johnson said : "The question really is, whether it is best for capital to own its labor or to hire it. We differ in regard to this question. You have determined the question one way in Pennsylva nia, and we have determined it another way in Georgia. Ido Dot propose to interfere with your social system, nor to controvert your de cision. Do as you please. 1 ask for the South that wo may be allowed to do as wo please.— [So you shall.] We have determined that it is better for us that capital shall own its labor. We are an agricultural people, and our staples are of such a oharaoter that we cannot hire labor for their produotion." In another part of the speech Mr. Johnson argued earnestly in support of the doctrine that every citizen of tbe United States had a right to take his slaves into all tbe territories of the Union. Think of it, working men ! Is not the nomination of Johnson an insult to the digoity of labor 1 Can you forgot it, mechanics aod laborers? When the Democracy ask you to vote for Johnson, remember that ha said that all labor should he owned ; that you, men of Pennsylvania, shonld be slaves. Does not your blood boil with indignation at the it salt I — Har. Tel. The Newark Evening Journal, comes out for Breckinridge and Lane, who, it says, are preferred by a large majority of tbu Democrats of New Jersey. Tbe following article from "The Daily Dem ocrat," the Democratic organ, published at Springfield tbe Capital of Illinois, shows what every candid man admits that Douglas has Dot tbe slightest chance of carrying that State against Lincoln: Can Douglas get tbe Vote of Illinois I The great argument of tbe friends of tbe Little Giant at, Charleston was, that he, alone, of all the proposed candidates ooald carry tbe northwest and Illinois in particular. And now, as Lincoln has received the Chicago nominal ion, upon the same grounds, it will be well enough to ask the question—can Douglas carry the State of Illinois ? lhe vote of Illinois, at the Presidential and Gubernatorial election in 1856 was, for Fre mont, 96,189, Fillmore, 37,444, Buchanan, 105,348; and at which election Bissell, the Republican candidate was elected over Rich-' ardsou, who received a larger vote thau Mr. Buchanan—sbowiug conclusively that the Fill more vote sympathised with tbe Republicans, notwithstanding they had a candidate for Gov ernor, R. S. Morris. But it may be said that this was not a fair test vote; that with Douglas and Lincoln as the contestants the Fillmore vote will go for Douglas. Is this so? In 1858, the two can vassed the State together, and after one of tho seveiest campaigns ever fought iu Illinois, wbcD the contest was Lincoln agaiost Douglas, the vote then for members of the Legislature who voted for Liocolo was 125,275, and for the Douglas members 121,190, showing that Lin coln gained io two years, on tbe vote of Fre mont over 29,000, whilst Douglas' increase over Buchanan was less than 16,000, evidenc ing a nett gain for Lincoln over Douglas of near 14,000 in two years. Some may say that the National Democratic vote should be given for Douglas ; but for what reason we are unable to conjecture. But for the sake of the argument, admit it. That vote was 5,0i1. Take this from Lincoln's nett gain, and it still leaves a gain of 9,000 —as much as Buchanan's vote was over Fre mont. But the contest was fought at long odds against Lincoln. The New York Tribune, a paper that exerts more influence over the Republicans than any other paper in tbe Uuion, was against Lincoln and in favor of Douglas ; and, besides, Senator Crittenden wrote letters to Illinois, urging bis Old Lino Whig frieuds to support Mr. Douglas ia preference to Lin coln. Then, too, Jimmy Joues, of Tennessee, come iuto tbe State on a missionary tour, to convert the Old Line Whigs to tbe support of "squatter sovereignty," and succeedod in the strong Fillmore region of Sangamon, Morgan and Madison couuties so far as to carry theiu for Douglas. Again, many National Demo crats, acting by the ill-timed advice of Vice President Breckinridge, J. B. Clay, aud others, supported Douglas as against Lincoln, who never will subscribe to the doctrine of Con gressional intervention to tbat of "squatter sovereignty,'' btlieviug both to be dangerous, but preferring the former as the least of the two evils. Tuese are our deductions from the facts and the figures (which might be made strougor by oomparing the diuiioisbed votes of some of tho strong Republicans counties of the north part of the State in 1858 from that of 1856, while there was no proportionate increase of the supporters of Douglas) that Douglas can by no possibility get the electoral vote ef Illinois,by many thousands ; and should be be the nomi nee at Baltimore, Illinois, is as safe a Repub lican State as Massachusetts. Douglas knows this well ; and why he permits his uarne to be used for the distraction of the party we oannot imagine, unless it be, as has often been said is bis ruotto, to "rule or ruin." RAIL SPLITTING. Some fastidious gentlemen appear to be a good deal disturbed at the presentation made of the Republican candidate for the Presidency, as having once been a rail splitter, and at the prominence and significanoy given to that por tion of bis early life by the exhibition at public meetings of rails split by his hands. The JY. Y. Times devotes half a column toproviug that Mr. Lincolu's having split rails in bis youth docs not constitute a reason for electing him President. "There is nothing," solemnly ar gues that journal, "in the employment pecu liarly conducive to the development of intel lect, or to the acqusition of the knowledge of the principles of government and political econ omy for which the inoumbeat of that office will have special need." To look at the matter in that light, and to argue with so much gravity and earnestness the question of rail snlitting as a Presidential qual ification is simply ridiculous. That the Jap anese Embassadors, or other total strangers to the American fashion of looking at things, should fall into suoh a total misapprehension as such an argument implies, would not be re markable, but we should hardly have expected it ou the part of The JV. Y. Timet, great as tho capacities of that journal are knowu to be.— The title of "rail splitter" given to Mr. Lin ooln, is merely an emphatic way of stating that he rose from the class of men stigmatized by slave holding Senators as the "mud sills" of sooiety, and the introduction of such into pub lic meetings and political prooessioos is but an emblematical reminder of the same faet. So far as concerns Mr. Linooln personally, the point intended to be made is, that, having risea from rail splitting to be a prominent citizen of Illinois, and a candidate for the Presidency, there must be talcut and capaoity enough in him to qualify Lim for the discharge of the duties of that office. The main object, how ever, is an appeal, and, as it seems to us, a per fectly fair one, to the sympathy and the self, ■respect of that great body of voters who split rails or follow similar laborious employments. It is a striking presentation of that great prin ciple of our democratio system, that the highest offioes of the government are open to all, bow ever humble their origin, who, by the display of talent, probity, and public spirit, shall at tract the favor and secure the Confidence of their fellow citizens. It is simply saying to the mass of the voters, here is a man who can be trusted to uphold tho great interests of free labor. He must know and understand those interests; he must sympathise with them, for he onoe was a laborer himself.— Mew York Tri bune. A pretty smart fellow writes to the Madi son Courier, that the Republicans got the natue of Black Republicans because they are in favor of keeping the nigger black, in oon tra-distinction to those Democrats who are for making him yellow. ( The Baltimore Patriot is too respectable to j adopt the ,tem of wholesale slander an d j abuse, which is so common amoDg journals i r" ,C , b °PP OBC lhe , Rc P candidates -! While laboring zealously for the Union party | 't frankly pays a tribute to .he chosen loaders ! ?. f the In an article upon the lives and characters of Lincoln and Hamlin, it uses Jhe following language : ' be * Wb ° know Mr - Linco, n intimately. y, lat he is a moderate and conservative man that bough opposed to the extension of Slavery wdS 1 ??/ jaßi r Mr - aud Beii STR!I? $■ It gcn,lemaQ still is, yet he is a State Rights man of the strictest sect.— He w also the sworn enemy of Executive and legislative corruption, and has a character for personal integrity unimpeachable Hi a D „ ril iUr sobriquct is, -Honest Old Abe> TheX can be little doubt, but that this man of workine ; people, the artificer of bis own fortunes from poverty to competence, from tbe lowest to the highest position, will meet with tbe cordial sympathies of the laboring masses every where whether they support him politically or not. ' "Mr. Hamlin was always a democrat, until the repeal of the Missouri Compromise bill came up, when he denounced it as an offense against plighted faith, and, in onen SeData dissolved his connection with the Democratic party, and went over o the Republicans. As a legislator, bis record shows him to be the author of more laws than that ot auy of bis compeers for the same length of time. He was and is the special friend of commerce. No man of any party questions his high integ rity of character, and bis sound and solid judgment has always made him a safe lawgiver. Hid Mr. Fremont been eieeted in the contest of 185G, it is understood that Mr. Hamlin would have been his Secretary of the Treasury. Ou the Slavery question, he was always what the Democrats used to consider sound, before tue repeal of the Missouri Compiomise. Of the rights of the States, he is the unqualified defender." THE NEW DOUGLAS PLANK—WhiIe the Baltimore Convention was in session, Mr. Douglas telegraphed to that city giving his consent to some concession to the South be yond that contaiued in tbe majority resolutions adopted at Cbaileston. That "concession" consist of the following resolution which was adopted by the "rump" convention at Balti more, and which now iorms part of the Doug las platform : RtsoLved, That it is in accordance with the Cincinnati platform, that during the existence of Territorial Governments the measure of re striction, whatever it may be, imposed by the Federal Constitution on the power of the Ter ritorial Legislature over the subject of do mestic relations, as tbo sauio has been or shall hereafter be finally determined by tbe Supreme Court of the United States, should bo respected by all good citizens, and enforced with prompt ness and fidelity by every branch of tbe Fed eral Government. Dou't let us bear any more about Douglas' pluck. This resolution concedes ail that the most ultra Southern man ueed ask. It admits the existence of "a measure of restriction im posed by the Federal Constitution on tbe power of tbe territorial legislature," "as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States." That Court, iu the Dred Scott decision, affirms the right to hold slaves in the territories, and declare that CoDgress has no power over the subject except the power, coupled with the duty, of protecting slavery in the territorial domain. In acceding to this resolution, Doug lae has showu himself ready to grant all that the South ask. He only desires to avoid the expression of that williuguees in direct terms. By circumlocutions, and studied phraases, he would concede it as far as possible ; but this resolution, as it is, will lose him many votes. No intelligent man can fail to understand it.— liar. Tel. Gov. SEWARD IN THE FIELD.—AS we have predicted, Gov. Seward will enter into tbe cam paign and do bis whole duty towards electing the Republican ticket. The Locofocos who have flattered themselves that Seward and his friends were disaffected and would not work during the campaign, havs reckoned without their host. Read the following patriotic letter to the Republicans of Michigan, who have in* vited him to visit them : ADBDRN, June 28, 1860. "Mr DEAR Slß: —Your kind letter awakens sentiments which I will not undertake to ex press. My heart overflows with gratitude and affection to my friends and the whole Republi can people of Michican. To the full extent of my ability, their wishes shall always be to roe as effective as a command. By-and-by, after some respite at home—from which I have been absent, exoept iu a tew stolen visits, eighteen months—l wiil meet you as you propose. But, iu the meantime, do not let your committee wait for me. Let them proceed to organize and oonceutrate the energies of the Republicans under the leadership of the worthy and distin guished cardidates approved by the Convention at Chicago,assured that I should feel it a calam rnity, and almost a reproach to myself throughout my remaining life, if aDy of the band of loyal patriots with whom I have acted so long should fall back from his advanced position iu the oom iog engagement, the first one, I am sure, of a long series of national triumphs of our right eous cause." Very faithfully yours, WM. H. SEWARD. TL J. W. TILLMAN, Esq., Chairman, sre." THE GROCERY STORE AND THE MEXICAN WAR. —From the debate between Lincoln and Doug las we extract the following: "The Judge is wo fully at fault about his early friend Lincoln being a grocery keeper. I don't know that it would have great sin if I had been; but he is mistaken. Lincoln never kept a grocery any where in the world. It is true Lincoln did work in the latter part ol the winter, in a little still house up at the head of a hollow. And so I think my friend the Judge is equally at fault when he charges me, at the time 1 was in Con gress, with having opposed our soldiers who were fighting in the Mexican war. I did oppose the preamble of the war bill, declaring that war existed by the act of Mexico, because it was not true; but I voted for all tne supplies to the soldiers, &c. The record proves this fact.- Reverdy Johnson expresses a hope that every Democrat will "keep step to the music ol his party." But, as the Democratic party is whist ting a slow march out of one corner of its mouth and a quick one out ot the other, how would a poor Democrat look trying to keep step to its music?
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