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gOL. MILLER, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. -
VOLUME IV. NUMBER 9.
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THE BOBOLINK'S CAMPAIGN SONG.
DV GEORGE W. OUNCA.
injtlf Dohotink migrate, to the Fonth, li .top.1
-clanee. hi, pturaa-e, and i. known 11 the rice
briofCeorgiaand ike Carolina., aad the rced-blrd or
MirjUad J -
Whea I am at lne .ouny South,
I dire not .ing my mellow ttriini;
A . of freedom from my mouth,
U'onlJ I'roitn amid the din of chain.:
So 1 tlnak on think on think on,
Cntil ny Tint there i. .pent.
Son Ale Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln
h lo he our IVeildent.
Ski, in the clorer meadow, here,
I ,pread with jnj mj happy wing,
And long before another year
tn the fair South land I can ting.
Wow HI dnalt on-drmk on drtnk on
From the fl flower-cap. filled with dewt
Cou.ln Lincoln Lincoln, Lincoln,
Htrt art ray r rtiftrU le ..
M.yetery man who feelt and ihtnk.
The line of triumph I. at hand,
Repeat the lon, of bobolink.,
.Now rinflne llirongt, oar happy land.
If Inne l.larolit-l.ltiroln Lincoln
rill., notwltli.tanding my tweet ilnlni,
I ih.ll t, I'm "Ihlnk ln"-"llilhk.ri,H
. rl rnirrnC r Jil.
I em be inltf hiitiLlan here)
Only a fil of tie liirJ llierel
I l.mli nty niUM hit hlf lli ,,
Anl rliMga the plumage tint I wear,
la I riglil fiel li I lillnk.iinlillnk.nn
hnw, I am nnl a iUmil illrnon
1111 for hnl toutln Lincoln,
T lit Iht rwiltlenllil llnuno,
Tk lilt an UlU hh UilmliaVi
Tiip fnilib'lly iliini
la In. fall l I wlll HUtl linkl
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fannnanpnvMtaiiaaiHaanannnnjtnBnnn
LIFE 07 LINOOHf,
We mako n few extracts, as follows.
from How oil' Life of Jinoaln, a work
jnt published ; .
LINCOLN AS A FLAT-BO VTMAN,
The Lincoln continued to Hvo In
Spencer county, until 18U0, nothing in
terrupting tlio oven tenor of Abraham's
life, except in his nineteenth year, a flat
boat trip to Now Orloans, He anil a
ion of tlio owner composed the crew,
And without other assistance, voyaged
"Down tha beautiful rim,
Put the Ohio .hoit, and pail lb month of tbn Waba.h,
hi. tlie gol lea iiream of tha braid and .wilt MImk
nppi," trffieking here ami thero in their course,
villi the inhabitants, and catching
glimpses of tho great world so long shut
ont by the wood. Ono night, having
lied up their "cumhrons boat," near a
solitary plantation on the sugar coast,
hey were attacked and boarded by seven
stalwart negroes ; bat Lincoln and his
comrade, after & sovoro contest in which
both were hurt, succeeded in beating their
assailants and driving them from the
boat. After which, thev weicbed what
anchor they had, as speedily as possible,
and gave themselves to the middle cur
rent again. With this sole adventure,
Lincoln resumed his quiet backwoods
life in Indiana.
REMOVAL TO ILLINOIS.
Foar years afterwards, on the first of
aarch, 1830, his father determined to
emigrate once more, and the family aban
doned the cabin that had been their home
to long, and set out for Illinois. The
emigrant company was made np by
Thomas Lincoln's family, and the fami
lies of Mrs. Lincoln's two sons-in-law.
Their means of progress were ox-wagons,
one of which Abraham Lincoln drove.
Before the month was elanserl thev had
arrived at Macon county, Illinois, where
jj leiuaineaa snort time, and Inn
coln's family "located" on some new
land, about ten miles northwest of Da-
ettur.oo the Sangamon river.at a junction
of forest and prairie land. Hore the father
and son built a log-cabin, and split rails
enough to fence in their land. It is sup
posed that these aro the rails which have
ince become historic, though by no
means the only ones vhich the robust
jonng backwoodsman made. Indeed,
there are other particular rails which dis
pate a celebrity somewhat indifferent to
the since re-admirer of Mr. Lincoln. Tho
work done was in the course of farm la
.bor, and went to the development ef Mr.
Lincoln's onscle. Otherwise it is diffi-
" to perceive how it has affected his
.career.
THE SAIL SrUTTlNO.
Mr. GenrtTA fM tb n.rfmr nf T.in.
"'ninths rail splitting business, says
"t Lincoln was at that time a farm la
borer, working from day to day for dif
ferent people, chopping wood, 'mauling
"" r uoing wnatever was to do aone.
Ww country was poor, and bard work
j the common lot ; the heaviest share
wiling to yonng unmarried men, with
whom it was a continual siranile to earn
y.Iihood. Lincoln and Mr. Close
niMe about one thousand rails together,
'Or James Hawannrl 'William MilW
giving their pay in homespun clothing.
Lincoln' Vir;n n,:L m:ii... .:r ...
ht he should have one vard of brawn
Jens, (richly dyed with walnut bark.)
jor every fonr hundred rails made, until
"8 should havo enough for a pair of trow-
pscdtafous
sera. As Lincoln -was already of great
altitude, the number of rails that went to
the acquirement of his pantaloons was
necessarily immense.
On his return to Illinois, Lincoln found
that his father had, in pursuance of a
previous intention, removed from Macon,
and was now living in Coles county.
His relative rejoined his family there ;
but New Salem, on tho Sangamon river,
became the home of. Lincoln, Whose "lo
cation" there was accidental rather than
otherwise. Ho was descending tho river
with another flatboat for Offutt, and near
New Salem grounded on a dam. An
old friend and ardent admirer, who made
his acquaintance on this occasion, says
that Lincoln was standing in the water
on the dam, when he first caught sight of
him, devoting all his energies to the re
lease of tho boat. His dress at this time
consisted of a pair of blue jeans trowscrs,
indefinitely rolled np, a cotton shirt,
striped whitoand blue (of the sort known
in song and tradition as hickory,) and n
buckeye-chip hat, for which a demand of
twelve and a half cents would havo been
exorbitant.
The future President failed to dislmlgo
his boat, though ho did adopt tho itigen
loui expedient of lightening it by bor
ing a hole In the end that hung over tho
dam, and letting out the water an inci
dent which Air. Douglas humorously
turned to account lit one of his speeches,
Tim boat stuck there itubbotn, immova
ble. Offnt, ns linn been hood, was a man
of tfaouroo anil ilaelnlon. Ho canto
ashore from hi lUtuunt, and resoluttjly
rented tlio very mill of which tha ilniu
hail (.'aimed lilt dlmuter, touetlier with an
old Htoveroom, which ho filled with n
fitoek of gooilg. Mid gave In the clrkly
dinrgej of Abraham Lincoln, with tlm
imuiillutmt tuliuy of 915 a month.
Lincoln lind alicmly mmta hi first
iegh. Ckn. W. L. I). Kwlng, and a
linlltlflian named Pony, who afwrwnid
achieved notoriety In tlm HUek Hawk
war. had adduced the freemen of Ma
eon the year previous "on tlm issues of
the day," Mr, rqay had. however, lit
violation of venerable precedent and s
ered etiquette, failed to invite the paver
oiffns to drink HQinethliitf, They were
justly Indignant, and persuaded Lincoln
to reply, in (tie expectation wai uawunm
Eosslbly make himself offensive to Tosey,
lincoln, however, took the slump with
charactorUtio modesty, and begging his
friends not to laugh if he broke down,
treated very courteously tho tn o speak
era who had preceded him, discussed
questions of politics, and in his peorn
tion oloqnently pictured tho future of Ill
inois. There was sense and reason in
his argnments, and his imaginative flight
tickled tho State prido of the Illinois,
nns. ,It was declared that Lincoln had
made tho best speech of the day; and
lie, to his great astonishment, found him
self a prophet among those of his own
household, while his titled fellow ora
tor cordially complimented his perfor
mance. LISCOLS'8 FAILCKB IS RUSHIKO FOR THE
LEGISLATURE, AMD IN OUOCERV KEEWSQ.
Defeated, but far from dismayed, Lin
coln once more turned his attention to
business. He was still poor, for though
thrifty enough, ho nover could withstand
the appeals of distress, nor sometimes
refnso to becomo security for those who
asked the use of his name. His first
enrrpviner had been done with a crape-
vine instead of a chain, and having in
dented a note which was not paid, his
compass was seized and sold. One James
bnort DOUgm u anu reiuruou it .u.u
coln. Tho surveyor of Sangamon coun
ty, John Calhoun, (since notorious for
his candle-box concealment of the elec
tion returns in Kansas,) deputed to Lin
coln that part of the county in which he
resided, and be now assumed the active
practice of surveying, and continued to
live upon the slender fees of his office un
til 1834, when he was elected to the Leg
islature by the largest vote cast for any
candidate.
Rpfnrfl this election Lincoln bad en
gaged and failed in merchandising on his
own account.
It is supposed that it was at mew oa
nthat Lincoln, whiles "clerk"' in
Offut's store, first saw Stephen A. Doug
las, and, probably, the acquaintance was
renewed during Lincoln's proprietorship
of the store, which be afterwards bought
in tho cnmfl nl ace
One Reuben KadTora was ljincoin .
nrpileeessor. He had fallen, by some
- .a 1- f .,
means, into disfavor with Clary's Grove
Boys, who one evening too oceasion 10
break in the windows of his establish
ment. Reuben was discouraged. Per
haps it would not bo going too far to
allude, to his situation aa discouraging.
At any rate, he told, a young farmerf
who came to trade with him the next
day, that he was going to close out his
businesi. What would Mr. Green give
him for his stock ? Mr. Green, looked
about him and replied, only half in ear-
i t.ln miIt ataied. In mlv to some
badinage ef Douglas, daring the debates ei
1868, that be never acpiagroierj ojw..
Oot West, a grocery ts understood to be a place
where the hlef article of commerce is wbls'
key. Lineola'a establishment was, la the
Western sense, a store j that is, be sold tea,
coffee, sugar, powder, lead, and other luxuries
j ,.. nf nt0nf- eilfttencc. Very
probably bis store was not without, the "elixir
of life," with which nearly everybody renewed
tbe flower OI jonui in mono sail i w"nij
la net a vaatter of absolute history, nor pernapa
of vital consequence
, t Mr. W. T. Green, now one of tbe moat in
lucutial andwcaltby'tuen of his part of Ilhnoii.
THE
WHITE CLOUD,
nest, four hundred dollars. The offer was
instantly accepted, and tho business trans
ferred to Mr. Green. On the following
u ay ijincoin chanced to come in and, bo
ing informed of the transaction, pro
posed that he and Green should invoice
the stock and seo how tnueh lie had made.
They found that it was nbout six hun
dred dollars, and Lincoln gave Mr. Green
a hundred and twenty-five dollars for his
bargain, while Green indorsed the notes
of Lincoln and one Berry, to Radford,
for the remaining four hundred. Berry
was a thriftless soul, it seems, and after
awhile the store fell into a chronic decay,
and, in the idiom of tho region, finally
rcinktd out.
Lincoln was moneyless, having previ
ously invested his whole fortnne in a sur
veyor's, compass and books, and Berry
was uncettain. Young Green was com
pelled to pay the notes given to Radford.
He afterward removed to Tennessee,
where he married, and was living in for
getfnlness of his trans tction with Lincoln,
when he ono dtty received a letter from
that person, stating he was now nblo to
pay back to Green the nmounl for which
no had indorsed. Lincoln was by this
time in the practice of the law, and it
was with tho first earnings of his profes
sion that ho discharged tills debt, princi
pal and Into est.
1IB HTtmiKS LAW.
He bought an old copy of Ulnckstono,
ono day, nt aiu-tlmi, In rjprliiglkhl, mid
on hU 1 1) tu in to New rJalom, attacked the
woik with uharaeterUtlu eueigy. Ills
favorite place of study was a wooded
knoll near New Salem, wheiahe threw
liliiiMilf under a wide iqirendluu oak, ami
expansively made a teaillnu dexk of the
hill hide. Ileie lie would pore over
HUeUstone day after day, uhlfting IiIn
portion a the Min ioe and aank, no an
to keep in the shade, and utterly uneon
hoIouh of everything hut the jiiliielple
of common law, i'enjile went by, mid
he took no account of them ; the nln
tatloiiN of acquaintances weie leturnod
with Mlence, or n.vaeant stare ; and nl
together the manner of the nbsoibed
Undent was not unlike that of one dis
traught, Smeethat day his habits of study
havo changed somewhat, hut his ardor
remains unabated, and he is now regar
tied one of tho best informed, as he is
certainly the ablest, man in Illinois,
When piacticing law, before his elec
tion to Congress, a copy of Burns was
jiis inseparable companion on tho circuit;
and this ho perused so constantly, that
it is said he has now by hoart every lino
of his favorite poet. Ho is also a diligent
student of Shakspenre, "to know whom
is a liberal education."
Tho bent of his mind, however, is
mathematical and metaphysical, and ho
is thorcforo pleased with the absolute and
logical method of Poe's tales nnd sketch
es, in which tho problem of mystery is
given, nnd wrought out into overy-day
facts by processes of cunning analysis.
It is said that ho suffers no year to pass
without a perusal of this author.
Books, of all sorts, tho eager student
devoured with nn insatiable appetite ;
and newspapers were no less precious to
him. The first publication for which he
ever subscribed won the Louisville Jour
nal, which he paid for when he could se
enre the intellectual luxury only at the
expense of physical comfort.
It was a day of great rejoicing with
Lincoln, when President Jackson ap
pointed him postmaster at New Salem.
He was a Whig, but the office was of so
little pecuniary significance, that it wa
bestowed irrespective of politics. Lin
coln, indeed, was the only person in the
community whoso accomplishments were
equal to the the task of making out the
mail return for the Department.
An acquaintance says that the Presi
dency can never make our candidate hap
pier than the post office did then. He
foresaw unlimited opportunities for read
ing newspapers, and of satisfying his ap
petite for knowledge.
Bnt it was not through reading alone
that Lincoln cultivated his intellect. The
grave and practical American mind has
always found entertainment and profit
in deputation, and tho debating cluba
are what every American youth is anb
ject to. They are useful in many ways.
They safely vent the mental exuberance
ofjouth; those whom destiny intended
for the bar and the Senate, they assist ;
those who have a mistaken vocation to
oratory, they mercifully extinguish.
Even in that day, and that rude coun
ter, where learning was a marvelous and
fearful exception, the. debating school
flourished, in part as a literary institution
and in part aa a rnstic iroiic.
Lincoln deliehted in practicing po
lemics, as it Was called, and used. to walk
six and seven miles through the wooas
to attend the disputations in his neigh
borhood. Of course, many of the de
bates were infinitely funny, for the dis
putants were, frequently, men withoutedn
cation. Here, novdoubt, Lincoln stored
his mind with anecdote and comic illus
tration, while he delighted ma auditors
with Jus own wit aad reason, and added
n h; cn-owinsr popularity.
Thia noDUiarity nao ocen esriy ioua-
. .O .. 3 I - 1 A
de3 by stroke of firmness and bravery
om Lincoln's part, whsa be first came in
to Saapwaon eonnty. '
He had returned from thj famoui voy
age made with Offutt's impromptn flat
boat to'New Orleans, and descending the
Sangamst river, as'has already been. re
:aVrl. fir.id noon tholittle village of Hew
Salem, by fcrtuity rather thanjnUntion,
CONSTITUTION AND THE
KANSAS, THURSDAY,
as his future home. Nevertheless, ho had
first to undcrgo'an ordeal to which every
new comer was subjected, before his res
idence conld be generally acknowledged.
Then, when it was more; necessary to be
equal parts of horse and alligator, and
to be able to vanquish ,one's weight in
wild cats, than now, 'there flourished in
the region of New Salem a band of jolly,
roystering blades,' tailing. -themselves
"CIary,A. GipveBoiV.whe1,rjiflJlfcflnly
gave the law to the the neighborhood, as
Regulators, but united judicial to legis
lative functions, by establishing them
selves a tribunal to try tho stuff of every
one that came into that region. They
were, at once, the protectors and tho
scourge of the whole country Bide, and
must havo been some such company as
that of Brom Bones, in Sleepy Hollow,
upon whom the "neighbors all looked
with a mixture of awe, and admiration,
nnd good will." Their mode of receiv
ing a stranger was to appoint somo one
of their number to wrestle with him,
fight with him, or run a foot race u ith
him, according to their pleasure, and his
appearance. '
As soon as yonng Lincoln appeared,
the "Clary's Grove Boys" determined
to slgnallge tholr prowess anew by a tri
umph over a stalwart fellow, who stood
six feet threo inches without stockings.
Tlio'loador nnd champion of tholr hand
(ono Jack ArraMiong, who dooms him
Nolf to havo been another Brum Bones)
challenged Lincoln lo a wrelllngniateh.
When tho encounter took place, tho
"(Jlmy' Grove Boy" found that ho
had decidedly the worst half of the nf
fair, and the bout would have ended In
Ignominious defeat, had not all hiu fel-low-boys
come to hli assistance. Lin
coln then refused to continue tho mieiiual
Ntnirgle. lie would wrestle with them
fairly, or lie would run a foot-race, or II
any of them desired to light, he gener
ously offeied to thrash that particular In
dividual, He looked every woid he said,
and none of the hoys saw lit to accept
his offer. Jack Armstrong was willing
to nail the affair dtnwn : and Lincoln's
fearless conduct had already won the
hearts of his enemies, lie was invited
to boeomo ono of tholr company, His
nopulaiily was assured. The hoys Idol,
food him, and when tho Blauk Hawk
war broke out, ho was choson their can.
taip, and remained at their head through,
out the oninpalun, 'A'hqir favor s(il pur
sued him, and, two years afterward, he
was oleotod to the Legislature, through
tlio influenco created by his famous wroa-tling-mntch.
Many of the hoys aro now distingush
ed citizens of Illinois, and aro -among
Lincoln's warmest friends ; though they
acknowledge that if ho had shown signs
of cowardico when they camo to tho res
cue of their champion, it would havo far
ed grievously with him.
Indeod, this seems 'to have boon ono of
tho iqost significant incidents of his early
lifo. ' It gavo him reputation for cour
ago nocoosary in a new country, and
opened a career to him which his great
qualities havo enabled him to pursue with
brillianco and success.
LINCOLN AS A LAWYER.
His characteristics as an advocate, are
an earnestness and sincerity of manner,
and a directness, conciseness, andstrength
of stylo ; ho appeals, at other times, to
the weapons of good-humored ridicule
as ably as to the heavier arms of foren
sic combat. He is strongest in civil ca
ses, but in a criminal case that enlists his
sympathy he is also great. It is then
that the advocate's convictions, presented
to the jury in terse and forcible, yet elo
quent language, sometimes outweigh the
charge of the judge. Juries listen to him
and concur in his arguments ; for his
known truth has preceded his arguments,
and he triumphs. Thero may bo law
and evidence against him, but the belief
that Lincoln is right, nothing can snane
in the minds of those who know the
man. - -
Ho prepares his cases with infinite
eare, when he"Jias nothibg but technical
work beforehim. The smallest detail of
the affair does not escape him. All the
parts are perfectly fitted together, and the
peculiar powers of his keen, analytic
mind are brought into full play.
He has not the quickness which charac
terizes Donglas, and which is so awful
to the man who adventnna in law or
politics. Bnt he is sufficiently alert, and
recovers himself in time to. achieve suc
cess. ' Lincoln does not grow richat the
law, and has not grown rich to this day,
though possessing a decent competence,
and owing no man anything. Poor men,
who have the misfortune to do with
courts, come to Lincoln; who has never
been known to exact as exorbitant fee,
and whose demands are always . propor
tioned to their nrorjertv. There is a rec
ord'of a ease which be gained tor s young
mechanic, after carrying it through three
courts, and of his refusal to" receive more
than a comparative trifien return. ,
'lixcols's mabbiaoe.
Meantime in the year 1842. Lincoln
married a woman worthy to be tne com
n anion of his nrocress toward honor and
distinction--. Miss Mary Todd, .who bo-
came his wife, is the daughter of Robert
Todd, of Lexington. Kentucky, a man
well known in that btato, and lormeriy
- - f .. .-
tha clerk of the lower' House of -Con
gress. At the time o ier, marriage, Muw
Todd was the belle of Springfield socie
ty accomplished sad intellectual, and
possessing all the social' graces, native in
the women of Kentucky., .
'When in the practice oj: the law, Mr.
UNION.
SEPTEMBER 6, 1860.
Lincoln was never known to undertake a
cause which ho believed founded in
wrong nnd injustice. "Yon are not
strictly in tho right," he said to a per
son who once wished him. to bring a cer
tain suit, and who now tells the story with
profound admiration. "I might give the
other parties considerable trouble, and
perhaps beat them atr law, but there
would bo no justice in it. I am sorry
X cannot undertake your cause."
"l never knew .Lincoln to do a mean
actio his life," said Stuart, the veteran
lawyer, who first encouraged Lincoln
to adopt his piolcssion. "Uod never
made a finer man," exclaimed tho old
backwoodsman, Close, when applied to
for reminiscences of Lincoln. By the
testimony of all, and in tho memory of
overy ono who has known him, Lincoln
is a pure, candid, and upright man, un
blemished by tlioso vices which to often
disfignro greatness, utterly incapable of
falsehood, and wit!out ono base or sordid
trait.
In 184G, Mr. Lincoln was elected Rep
resentative in Congress, from Illinois,
nnd took his Rent in December, 1847 :
In tho Hcnato sat Clay, Calhoun, Ben
ton, Webster, Ucnvln. In the House
wcro Pulfroy, Wltithorp, Wllmot, Old
dings and Adam.
Tlio new member from Illinois, who
had distinguished himself In 1844 its tlio
friend of Clay and the enemy of Texan
nunexntlon, took his so.it among thdw
great men its representative of tho purest
Whig principles ; he wa opposed to the
war, as Corwln was j ho was anti-slave
ty, us Ulay was; he favored Intel nnl
Impioveinents, as nil the gieat Whigs
illif,
Ami as Abraham Lincoln never sat
astride of any fence, unless In his rail
splitting days ; as water was never ear
rled on doth of his square shouldeis ; as
his prayeis to Heaven havo never been
made with n lefDieuue to n compromise
with other poweis; so throughout his
Congressional career, yon find him the
hold advocate of the principles which he
believed to he light, He never dodged
rt vote, lie never minced matters with
his opponents, Ho had been fifteen days
in tlio House when he mado known what
manner of a man ho was,
The spceohoa of Mr, Lincoln, which
follow Mr, Howolls' biography, are six
in number, and are tho best of his lifo,
Manhood and Honor Vindicated,
Hon. Wm. A Richardson, Douglas'
fugleman at Charleston and Baltimore,
said it was impossible for them to yield
or compromiso, as thoir honor and man
hood i ero involved in the struggle. They
pretended to bo actuated by a great prin
ciple, yet they nominated for tho Vico
Piesidoncy Benjamin Fitzpatrick, who
voted to displaco Stephen A. Douglas as
tho Chairman of the Committco on Ter
ritories, nnd who, also within the last
six months, voted for the Senate caucus
resolutions, which repudiates tho heresis
of Douglas. Moreover, Gov. Fitzpat
rick, in n letter to a citizen of Jackson
county, Alabama, last fall, denounced
"unfriendly legislation" and opposed the
nomination of Douglas. Notwithstan
ding theso facts, ho was plaeed upon the
ticket for Vice President, by men who
could not abandon Douglas because their
manhood and honor were involved. The
political sentiments of Scntor Fitzpat
rick arediaraetricallyopposetl to Douglas
on all his distinctively avowod doctrines.
This palpablo and irrcconcilablo contra
diction furnished an nnanswerablo argu
ment ogainst the political honesty of the
party which nominates such candi
dates. It will reqnirc vastly more skill
and energy of lying than even tho Doug
las orators and editors possess, to make
this oppcar otherwise than dishonest to
the people of the North. The very rea
sons which would operate to make Mr.
Fitzpatrick strong in the South will op
erate with crushing power to weaken him
in tha North, bo far as he was concern
ed, the ticket was worse than a cheat
it was as nsult to the honest masses ot
Democracy. "Manhood and honor"
must bo at a discount - when it requires
such disgraceful trickery to sustain it.,
These self-sacrificing martyrs vindicate
their devotion to principle by placing
on the Douglas platform a man who does
not entertain aieni.mcunu cumuiuu nun
their nominee, and who,, considered him
as unworthy to fill, the position as Chair
man of the Committee on Territories.
Memphis Avalanche. '
The same as to Herscbel V. Johnson,
only more so. - . fT
On Mondav.-precedujB the nomination
at Chicago, one of Lincoln's friends wrote
him a note, saying xnai n proopow
were irnrjrovintr. and that an arrangement
here, or a pledge there, would, at the last
moment, make all certain. " ui-e my
lf," said the writer, " with two other
gentlemen, anthority to negotiate, and
we win. io mis note umcoia repn,
in the best spirit of Roman manhood, as
follows: "
"No, gentlemen; I have not. asked
the nomination", and I will not now bny
it with nledces. If.I am nominated and
elected, I shall not go into tho Presiden
cy as tho tool of this man or that, nor as
the property ot any taci.vn or cngno i -
Sijjgclak Case of Theft is Esolasd.
The brother of a nobleman in England
well known known upon tho tnrf, and
whose annual income exceeds 8100,000
per annnm, has been lately expelled from
his club for staling candic3.
i TERMS
POETICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CHARLESTON'
SCH1MMAGK.
Tbe r-crnt .ccnn at Charlction am .ariontljr clelra.
ted in the camp, of tbe ililfrrcnt faction, that toua part in
that intereiiln-.rrlmmage, botlij- all oJdi tbe mot fw
elical anJ the moit perusal deicrlption of the conflict i.
;irtn brtlie lirlitof the New orlt Leader, fee what
bitter tenoni lie pour, upon lock eminent Democrat. t
Meuri. Ilachanan, flldcl!, t'nihin;, Vncey, lljjtr.l,
Uariilale anj J action.
"Crooketan.!ueax,Lnteii,iun.a, t!iemicbeufMaiUet!i,
Came oU ami gray llaclianan, a l,unerin for M death;
And fnKofniortal sfrate-y, unit -r-en an I rhenmjr ejes,
The ancient llonma, llandit each pouoned arron trie.
H ill, cold and .tone ri.a;e, luV llreelmtid-e ii there!
While old Jo Line keeps flonriitun; hi, ro.ty .irorJ in ail'
But .till tbe Little Ciant hold, nnmo.ed hi. fearlei. Mat
bile tbe great nrate. ofthe people bel.in 1 him rjck and
way!
'A Iktugta. an I a Huuthu!
o hand but hi. enn guide.
In .acli 3 .trait, our ihip uT tilale,
Acrnx tho .lonnjr tide'.'
"A poiMniiri, reptile, nianj. waled, nn I nltl, 1.10.1 .obtte
fang,
OinledrotMarl t'aVli C'u.blnx, while letntid Ii, utile.
Anil mounted on a eh.rrr uf hot an I rfWjr btiicl,
The AlahiniLn Yancey d-iitie. In ..111, fell allaci'
lio! Ilar.nl I, ntJtueJ, and rpll, hi. fjioilc tart, an I
dire
Ilia flag rereal. A fain bual I In, mollo nnd iletlie!
Hut iMilllnj tllllitg.ln.t lliem all, llielt One IV liuM.hii
tiv.it,
)hl! louder .1111 and luudrr. Ilia rrt kalilitJ lis. gtowm
A lioitgM kml s llosglai
tVlnl etefjr hse lllrk ilillt.t
flil- I'euple', Mill I, iitrrfliglt tllll,
Ahil ll nl 14 lluiifl.. lurtiil'
"Half Imlie, lialhllllg.liiri lirrt-rWni MlKiiiliMii'tluifii.,
Th bUlmil II11, t.ntniile, ami ,mf, aUia f !. Miik.f
1'liim Aikmi.il eiiiiie, Himn,, mil, III, Miwlli .ik' In
lit tlitnllii
Wliil' llMljiHMillFitlti'gliiiJ'rfctiin, iliimihii iim
fliiiliiglylMhl
Ami lUikdUl link, hit bjn.rvtt kuk, sii.lsuMii. timt
lil I'll,
Aii.l-miMika limy ilriii.snil tmi linm-aili s tirm nf
hiil,
lliil iwilin t niml"i'it a hiilih liuiyU, instil., hh,
WIiiIs manr nilllimi .hm, ii. in tlmm, iW in nt
, llwiglin sn I s IIiiujIm!1
leiiil.r lh vt'MPiigkfiomi
On I ticl III' man hiu (ijl(, i u
AmU'l a Ihoil.and. fi,'
Thai, Ho llilnk, Hill (In, Nli n rbauniy i, Lan ,,
I'stliisg It iini.qiiuii,, waly tiil, ll.furJ fN!)r,
a I m on) Mliile, f conria, Mr, luui. , vrlling
(ill il gallant an I MiullM, llul ( uirry In ten ,uti
IhiSgr, ll piomi ill frr III' liarinany uf the arly,
-t-9 . 1
(.'mm the IlllnoU State Journal,)
Mr, Lincoln and the- Supremo Court,
"If I were In Congress, and n vote
should come up on a question whether
slavery siionm ne proiiiuiien in a now
territory, in spile of the Bred Scott ilecia
ion, I would voto that it should." Aorw
Jiam Lincoln.
From tho abovu declaration of tlio Ro
publican candidato for tho Prcxiilciicy,
delivered in Chicago on tho 10th of Jnly,
1858, it appears that he repudiates the doc
trine of submission to the decisions made
hj the judicial tribunals of the country.
This is a singular declaration to como
from tho lips of a public man, especially
ono who aspires to tho chief niagiotracy
of tho country.
Is this thu present attitude of Mr. Lin
coln ? Docs ho now declare himself in
dependent of tho judiciary? Will he if
elected President of the united slates, dis
regard the interpretations ofthe Constitu
tion? Theso are qncries which, nhile they
have no particular significance) when ot
tered by Mr. Lincoln as a private citizen,
are now invested with new importance
when ho seeks an election to tho first of
fico in the country. Will ha or his
friends tell us whether he stands by his
publicly avowed doctrines of two years
ago ? 2f. Y. Journal of' Commerce.
It was formerly one of tho boasts of
the Demoracy, that it denied tbe plenary
jurisdiction of the Supreme Conrt which
the old federal party ciaimeu lor it, ana
opnosed tho umpirage of the Federal Ju
diciary over the co-ordinate branches of
the government in an cases involving po
litical questions of Constitutional con
struction. To no question hertofore have
our Democratic friends been more thor
oughly committed than that each depart
ment of the General Government is its
own interpreter of the Constitution ; that
while the Judges of tho Supreme Court
were sworn to support tbe Constitution,
as they understood it, tho President and
members JVX. -P"P"
similar sanction to support tbe Constitu
tion, not as the Court- might understand
it. but as thev themselves understood U.
This was tho doctrine of Thomas Jeffer-
son. In a letter to Judge Roane, in 1819.
he said : "
"In denying the right they (the judges
of the Supreme Court) usurp of exclu
sively explaining tho Constitution, I go
further than you do, If I understand
rightly yonr quotation from the Federal
ist, of an opinion that -the judiciary is
the last resort in relation to the other de
vartmenU of the Government, but not in
relation to the rights of the parties to tho
compact under which the judiciary is de
rived. If this opinion De sound, tnen,
indeed, is our Constitution a complete
feLo de se. For, intending to establish
three departments co-ordinate and inde
pendent, that they might check and bal
ance one another, it has given according
to this opinion, to one of thm alone the
right to prescribe roles for the govern
ment of the other : and to 'that one, too.
which is unelected by and independents
lhA nation." - ' ' --r"
..'The
Constitution, .on this hypothetis, is a
mere thing of wax, in the hands of the
judiciary .which they may twist and "shape
into any form they please. It should be
remembered as an azibn of ttsmal IruiS
in polities, that tofialever pouer n any
i Government is independent is, absolute at-
$2.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.
WHOLE NDMBER,165.
so; in theory only at first, while the spir
it of the people is up, bnt in practice as
fast ns that relaxes. Independence cart
be trusted nowhere hut with- the people in
mass. They aro inherently independent
of all but moral law."
In 11 letter written in 1820 to Mr. Jar
vis, he used the following language:
-"The Constitution has erected no such'
single tribunal, knowing that, tb wKateV
cr hands confided, with the corruptions'
of time and party, its members would'
becomo despots. It has mora wisely
mado all tho departments co-enual and
co-sovereign within themselves."
To Judge Johnson hu wrote, in 1623;
these (striking words :
"I cannot lay down my pen without
recurring to ono of tho subjects of my for
mer letter fur, in truth, thero is no dangtr
I apprehend so much nn tho consolidation
of our Government by tlio noiseless,
nnd therefore itualaruiing instrumental
ity of the Supreme Court. This is the
form in which Federalism now arrays
itself; and consolidation is the iirntnt
principle f distinction between liepullcans
anttpstteao Jtejiuuuani, but real Federal
i.i. '
And General Jackson anlmtuliiad
similar opinions lit reference) to the pow
ers of tho Supremo Court. In his men
srtgu vetoing tlits hill ro chartering tho
muni 01 hid uniiuii mates, im omplull
cnlly said :
'Tn vphilon nf the JuJuu has iw mart
ulUfiurltjf over Uaiwreit than Iht njilnlon
of L'uiymt war thojudyei ; and on that
point tne rmidtnt it mdrptmltitl if bolA,
The aulhnrltj of the Supreme Uviirl mm!
nut, ttortfort, be permitted lo control the
Oovyre ur Iht h'jueullve, when voting In
Ihtlr li'iihhtlve eopifallei, lul lo have only
such Influence us the force of thilr rtaion
Ing may deserve,"
Hiicli are the well known leaching of
the Democratic juily, and yet when Mr,
Lincoln boHgves that Congress is Inde
pendent of the Judiciary and that It Is its
own Interperter of the Constitution, and
avows that lie as a member of the bod),
should tho queatlon t.rls, would rote
against tne extension or slavery into new
territories "In spite of (he J) red Bcotl
Decision," the organs of the Poraoorsy
throw up their hands and roll tho whites
of tholr oyps in holy horror at tho
thought that Mr, Lincoln repudiate tha
iloctrino of submlsHlon to the Jadfcial
Tribunal of (ha Country," and "will if
elected Proshlout of tho Unitod States,
disrejarJ tho Supremo Court's interpreta
tion of tho Constitution ?" But Mr.
Lincoln, in standing in his opinions along,
with Jefferson and Jackson, who nued to
bo regarded ns the f ithors of tho Demo
cratic parly, feels that ho is in very good
company, in spito of what tho organs of
a corrupt oligarchy may say to tho con
trary. Mr. Lincoln holtU, with Jeflforson'
and his compeers, that the people are tho
rightful depositories of political power,
and that with them is tho ultimato de
cision of all political questions. Ho de
nies what modern Democrats contend forM
that the Constitution has created atribti-
nal and placet it above and beyond the
puoplo, to which it has delegated the
authority to decide, finally and conclu
sively, all qncions of political right and-
power, ami he is opposed to ma
king nino judge, who aro indenen-
dent of tho people, a supremo, des
potic, and irresponsblo power to- utter
and send forth their dictums about tbo
rights of the people unquestioned and
without appeal. As ho declared in-his-
well known Cincinnati speech, he be
lieves that "THE PEOPLE- O-P
THESE UyiTED STATES ARE
THE RIGHTFUL MASTERS OF
BOTH COy ORE SS'EJS AND
COURTS, yOT TO' OVER
THROW THE c o NsrruTioir,
BUT TO 0 VERTHR 0 WTHEMEy
WHO PREVERT TBE. QOySTt
TUTlOy." A Washington corespondent sajts- thai
Mr. Cooper, Of Michigan, still appears
daily in the House of Representatives,
but that he has no longer a seat in. that
body. Ob, yos, ho has a seat thero, bat,
as Charles Limb said of himself in a
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DcMocnATic Cosvevtio!. The- most
barbarous thing that has occurred since-
the session of this boy, was on lastston
day, whea a gentleman in the Conven
tion intimated to tho l'resident that aa
he was a wig in 1840, he ooght sot now to
be hair." Charleston, yews.
It is given ont that Mr. Buchanan ex- ,
claimed, the other day: " When will ray
trouble cease? I have had Douglas,
Walker, Forney, Ccrode, and .Fowler
on hand ; and now comes an infernal
cargo of captured niggers to add to my
vexation I"
Baron Rothschild, head of the greaa
European banking house, has no child re '
tn laavn in nnnftxainn nfhia vaat wa1k.
It is said, though, tb rank itv all owing,
to bis iiarrenass. - '
Auomisable. Can the presence -of
Archbishop Hughes at the New York.
Donglas Demonstration at tho Coops3
Institnte, be taken as an omen that Don- :
glas is well nigh " (H) nsed op V'. - "
Tun Rival Elki-hasts. Van Am--burgh's
Hannibal and tho Chiea'gbPHat-''
nibal. Tho one, is vicious, the .other
goes for " Vice."
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to the lowest meanness. Ho don'tjfoop
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