...and justified by an obligation of the Government to protect the lives and property of its citizens. Sixteenth. That a railroad to the Pacific Ocean is...daily overland mail should be promptly established. Seventeenth. Finally, having thus set forth our distinctive principles and views, we invite the co-operation...

...Republican convention, which met thereafter and which nominated Mr. Lincoln, declared in its platform— That a railroad to the Pacific Ocean is Imperatively...render immediate and efficient aid in its construction; :ind that, as a preliminary thereto, a daily overland mail should be promptly established. Again, in...

...and justified by the obligation of government to protect the lives and property of its citizens. "16. That a railroad to the Pacific Ocean is imperatively...daily overland mail should be promptly established. "17. Finally, having thus set forth our distinctive principles and views, we invite the cooperation...

...justified by the obligation of government to protect the lives and property of its citizens. “16. That a railroad to the Pacific Ocean is imperatively...daily overland mail should be promptly established. “17. Finally, having thus set forth our distinctive principles and views, we invite the cooperation...

...and justified by the obligation of Government to protect the lives and property of its citizens. 16. That a railroad to the Pacific Ocean is imperatively...daily overland mail should be promptly established. 17. Finally, having thus set forth our distinctive principles and views, we invite the co-operation...

...dishonor upon any government or people that gave it their sanction. terests of the whole country, and that the Federal Government ought to render immediate and efficient aid in its construction, and as an auxiliary thereto, the immediate construction of an emigrant road on the line of the railroad....

...the most central practicable route is imperatively demanded by the interestsof the whole country, and that the Federal Government ought to render immediate and efficient aid in its construction, and as an auxiliary thereto, the immediate construction of an emigrant road on the line of the railroad....

...dishonor upon any government or people that gave it their sanction. terests of the whole country, and that the Federal Government ought to render immediate and efficient aid in its construction, and as an auxiliary thereto, the immediate construction of an emigrant road on the line of the railroad....

...satisfied as to both the tariff and the outlook for opening up the Great Plains to settlement and trade. "A railroad to the Pacific Ocean is imperatively demanded by the interests of the whole country; the Federal Government ought to render immediate and efficient aid in its construction." Thus read...

...nominated Abraham Lincoln for President in May, 1860, at Chicago, declared in the sixteenth plank: "That a railroad to the Pacific Ocean is imperatively...daily overland mail should be promptly established." Lincoln, as nominee, in his letter of acceptance, referring to the platform in general, said "the declaration...