Show E t unique stump unique methods of campaigning are thus described by an eye wt wit ness ibis chis was as on the occasion of his first nomina tion as a legislative candidate mr air Lincol ns first appearance pe arance on tho the stump in the course of the canvass was at ville about eleven miles west of springfield upon the occasion of a public sale by the firm arm of knap the sale over speechmaking was about to begin when mr air lincoln observed strong symptoms of inattention in his audience who had taken that particular moment to engage in 1 hat mr air james A clerndon pronounces a general fight lincoln saw that one of his friends was suffering buffering more than he liked in the melee and stepping into the crowd be shouldered them sternly away from hla his man until he met a fellow who refused to pill fill back him he seized by the nape of his neck and the stat of hla his breeches and tossed him ten or or twelve feet easily after this episode as of him as of the times he mounted the platform and delli delivered ered with awkward modesty the fol following loing speech gentlemen and rellow fellow citizens I 1 p oesime you all know who I 1 am I 1 am bumb e abraham lincoln I 1 have been solicited ba b many friends to become a candidate for the legislature na M politics are short and sweet like the old woman s dance I 1 am in favor of a national bank I 1 am in favor of the internal improvement s system stem and a high protective tariff these are my 8 sentiments and political principles it elected I 1 shall bo be thankful it if not it wt will be all the same in these few sentences mr lincoln adopted the leading principle of the whig party uty chiy s american system in full in his view as we shall see by another paper aiom him when again a candidate in 1834 the internal intel nal improvement system required the distribution trib ution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands amongst the states ile he gays nothing of south carolina of nullification of disunion and on these subjects it Is quite probable his views were like mr air websters webster s and his sympathies with avith jackson the opinions announced in this speech on all the subjects touched by the speaker were as emphatically whig as they could be made to in words |