CHAPTER XIX TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN [Sandusky (Ohio) Commercial Register, November 9, 1858] LINCOLN FOR PRESIDENT We are indebted to a friend at Mansfield for the following dispatch: MANSFIELD, Nov. 5th, 1858 "Editor Sandusky Register:-An enthusiastic meeting is in progress here tonight in favor of Lincoln for the next republican candidate for President." [Illinois State Journal, Springfield, November 13, 1858] REPORTER LINCOLN FOR PRESIDENT.-The Sandusky (Ohio) Register announces the nomination of Hon. Abraham Lincoln for the next President, by an enthusiastic meeting at Mansfield in that state. [Illinois State Journal, November 19, 1858] [From the New York Herald) ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL TEAM.-The following ticket has just been brought out at Cincinnati: For President, Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois; for Vice-President, John P. Kennedy, of Maryland—with a platform embracing protection to American industry, the improvement of western rivers and harbors, and opposition to the extension of slavery by free emigration into the territories. [Illinois State Journal, Springfield, November 20, 1858] MR. LINCOLN.-The Springfield correspondent of the St. Louis Republican pays the following compliment to this gentleman: Mr. Lincoln takes his defeat in a good-natured way, as any sensible man would. Although differing, as we do, with him in politics, yet we have ever regarded him as an honorable gentleman. As a man he is unexceptionable. His private character is above reproach. That he is a man of talent no one will deny. He fought his battle gallantly and zealously, but met with a fate which, doubtless, he foresaw from the beginning. [Cincinnati (Ohio) Gazette, November 6, 1858] THE ILLINOIS BATTLE The Republicans also, while regretting the defeat of LINCOLN, their gallant leader, will find consolation in the fact that, after all, there is a clear majority of five thousand on the popular vote in his favor.-This affords a reasonable ground of assurance that Illinois will vote for the next Republican candidate for the Presidency. If a man of the Northwest (which now seems to become indispensable) he is likely to carry the State, even against Douglas. [Daily Herald, Quincy, Ill., November 15, 1858] [From the Peoria Daily Message] A NOTCH HIGHER Defeat works wonders with some men. It has made a hero of Abraham Lincoln. Two or three Republican journals in different sections of the Union are beginning to talk of him for Vice President, with Seward for President; and a Republican meeting just held in Mansfield, Ohio, raises him a notch higher, by announcing him as its candidate for President. We have no sort of objection to this sort of a programme. It suits us as well that both presidential candidates in the next race shall be selected from Illinois as that one of them shall come from here and the other from some other State. Illinois has been the cynosure of all eyes in the late senatorial contest, and we are quite willing it should hold the same position before the world when the next President comes to be chosen. Of course, our side will win-that is written in the book of destiny; but then the honor will be awarded to the "living dog" of being once more kicked to death by the "dead lion."— [Chicago Press and Tribune, October 29, 1858] This is the most brilliant and, as the event will prove, most successful political canvass ever made in the country. From first to last he [Lincon] has preserved his well earned reputation for fairness for honor and gentlemanly courtesy and more than maintained his standing as a sagacious far seeing and profound statesman. Scorning the use of offensive personalities and the ordinary tricks of the stump, his efforts have been directed solely to the discussion of the legitimate issues of the campaign, and of the great fundamental principles on which our government is based. No man living has been a closer student of those principles than Mr. Lincoln and in his numerous speeches throughout the state he has brought the result of that laborious study and the convictions of his matured reason and sober judgment before the people with an ability a force and an eloquence rarely equalled and that made a deep and ineradicable impression upon all who have heard him. No fact has been more apparent in the canvass than that Mr. Lincoln was more than a match for his opponent. In all the elements of statesmanship, in close compact logical argument, in gentlemanly amenity, in control of his temper under the severest provocations, in an unfailing fund Commercial Register The Congres In the elections h Tuesday last, twenty Published Daily, Tri-Weekly & Weekly ty-eight Republican BY HENRY D. COOKE AND C. C. BILL. SANDUSKY, OHIO, SATURDAY MORNING, NOV. 6, 1858. Lincoln for President. were chosen. The r are as follows: In New York, the. four members, the R carrying the the othe subjoined list: We are indebted to a friend at Mansfield for Democrats in SMALL O the following special dispatch: Dist. "MANSFIELD, Nov. 5th, 1858. *denote Luther C Carter 2 James Humphrey 3 DE SICKLES* (Cont 4 THOMAS J BARR 5 WM B MACLAY* 6 JOHN COCHRANE* 7 George Briggs 8 Horace F Clark* 10 Chas H Van Wyck 9 JB Haskin (d'btfi 11 EP Strong 13 Abram B Olin*. 12 L Beale 14 John H Reynolds 15 James B McKean 16 G W Palmer* 17 F E Spinner* The Result in Michigan. We are ashamed of the work of the Republicans of Michigan, and we believe they are by this time ashamed of it themselves: They were able to have done better than they did at the late election. They have only a majority of from 6,000 to 10,000 on the State ticket. This majority should have been from 15,000 to 20,000. The Republicans of Michigan, had they only disregarded the storm and gone to the polls, could have made this record without jority over Walbridge doubt. No man, who calls himself a freeman, Williamson, the Union should let any cause that does not present an ed by Mr. Williamso insuperable obstacle deter him from the per-plurality of votes ove formance of such an important duty as voting, of the latter will, ther especially when issues are as vital as those taken by the parties on Tuesday last. The conduct of Republicans in the 1st Congressional District is particularly censurable. By petty dissensions they fritted away their strength, and lost to the Republican forces in Congress one of their strongest coadjutorsWm. A. Howard-giving his seat to a man en LINCOLN FOR PRESIDENT The New York Ti says that in the Thir reported that Sickles Massachusetts retur can delegation as foll Dists. 1st. Thomas D. E 2d. James Buffing 3d. Charles F. A 4th. Alexander H. 5th. Anson Burlin 6th. John B. Alley This is probably the first public announcement of the name of Lincoln as a candidate for the presidency in 1860. of good nature-in every quality, in short, that commends itself to the approbation of the better nature of man, on every occasion he has loomed above Mr. Douglas, immeasurably his superior. He has proved himself Mr. Douglas' superior in another respect also. He can do more work and bear it better. Strictly correct in all his habits, simple and abstemious in his manner of life, he has gone through the herculean labor of the canvass without flagging in a solitary instance, all his physical powers in full and harmonious action, his voice clear and ringing and in all respects more fresh and vigorous than when on the 9th of July he made his first speech from the balcony of the Freemont House. Mr. Lincoln's efforts in this canvass have also made for him a splendid national reputation. Identified all his life long with the old Whig party, always in a minority in Illinois, his fine abilities and attainments have necessarily been confined to a very limited sphere. He entered upon the canvass with a reputation confined to his own state. He closes it with his name a household word wherever the principles he holds are honored and with the respect of his opponents in all sections of the country. If it should turn out that, by fraud on the part of his opponents to override the will of a large majority of the bona fide citizens of Illinois, Mr. Lincoln shall fail of an election to the Senate, his fame is already secure. [Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat, November 10, 1858] HON. ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Republican press of Chicago pays an appropriate tribute to the Hon. Abraham Lincoln, who has come out of the contest with Douglas with distinguished honors. Although under the finesse of Democratic legislation his antagonist succeeds, Mr. Lincoln has now a reputation as a statesman and orator, which eclipses that of Douglas as the sun does the twinklers of the sky. The speeches made during the Illinois campaign have been read with great interest throughout the country and the able, out-spoken efforts of the Republican standard-bearer have appeared in a very favorable comparison with the subtle duplicity of his plausible adversary. The Republicans of the Union will rejoice to do honor to the distinguished debater of Illinois. [Journal and Courier, Lowell, Mass., October 20, 1858] No man of this generation has grown more rapidly before the country than Lincoln in this canvass |