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Show 'jmmm rcwimw waa i " aw ana ! I L lincoln's Love uhwI Atiairs ny fE And His Ea.rly Ward Hill Lamon, X Experiences as j Li-i-. r.-..i .m Birg1,d V Lo.wma.ker I , I A k-Ulaturu uf 1831. lull had tlioit it1-ct'iilly it1-ct'iilly l'1iiiiik'I nldi'i mid tlu-rcupou wiih uppdluli'd H'Klsler ( UL' l.iud uf-Uco uf-Uco ut Sprlulli'ld. Mr. Konpicr was an iiHtonldhlni: man. lie nut only it'i. tonNlioil tho people hy "vliniiKhiK his coat In politics," hut hy linlldliij; tlio hcit frame hoimc In Hprlugflold and erectlns over It Ihe only IIrIiIiiIiis rod the pullro reclon could honut of. At till iniv'llllK hi llstPllod iittc'llllvely tci Mr. I.lniMihi'rt llrt npi-wli mid waft much niumycd hy the triiiMccndi'iit power with which tho nwkwnnl youns mini dcfomlrd the prlnclpltM hit hud lilniKPlf mi lately mIiiiikIumi'iI. "Tho Hpi'Mli" produced n profound ImpriM-hIoii, ImpriM-hIoii, "ospeclally upu 11 bir;i number of I.IiicoIu'h friends mid ndiiilrcnt, who I had coiuo in rum tin romitrj" ex-prc9l.v ex-prc9l.v ti hear and applaud him. I Mil Lightning Rod Repartee. I "At tlm conclusion of Lincoln's ' siit'ech" (wo ijuotc from Mr. Sliced) 1 "tho crowd was dispersing when l-'or-ipicr ro?i and asked to be huaid. lie comuieuced by wiylnt; that the yonns tiian would liitro to be taken down nnd was Horry that the tank devolved upon him. lie then proceeded to answer I.IiicoIu'h upcech lu a Btylo which, whllo It was nblo and fair, yet In his whole manner asserted and claimed Miperlor-Ity. Miperlor-Ity. Lincoln stood near lilm and watched him durlni; the whole of his speech, When Forquer concluded, ho took the stand m;aln. I have often heard htm since lu court and beforo tlio people, but never saw him appear 'mo well as upon that occasion. lie replied re-plied to Mr. Foniuer with great iIIruI-ty iIIruI-ty and force, hut I shall never forgot the conclusion of that xpecch. Turning to Mr. Foriiuer, he snld that ho had commenced his speech by announcing that 'this young man would havo to be taken down.' Turning then to the crowd, ho cald: 'It Is for you, not for mo, to say whether I am up or down. The Kcntlemlm has alluded to my being be-ing a young man. I am older In years than I am In tho trlckH and trades of politicians. I deslro to live, nnd I de-ulro de-ulro place and distinction ns n politician, politi-cian, hut I would rather die now than, llko tho gentleman, llvo to seo the day that 1 would havo to erect n lightning rod to protect n guilty conscience from an offended Cod." " Ho afterward told Ppeed that the sight of that rinmo rod "had led him to tho study of t7ie propertlei of electricity electric-ity and the utility of the rod ns a conductor." con-ductor." CHAPTER VII. Dick Taylor's Aristocracy and Abe'i Enforced Democracy. jttMOXG tho Democratic orators stumping tho county at this JWk time was Dick Taylor, n pompous pomp-ous gentleman who went abroad lu superb attire, rufllcd shirts, rich rest nnd Immense wnteh chains, with shining and splendid pendants. But Dick wag a severe Democrat In theory, made much of "tho hard handed yeomanry" yeo-manry" nnd flung many biting sarcasms sar-casms upon the aristocratic pretensions of the Whigs, tho "rag barons" and the manufacturing "lords." He was ono day In the midst of a particularly aggravating declamation ot (his sort "when Abo began to feel devilish and thought he would tnko tho wind out of Dick's sails hy n little sport." He thoreforo "edged" slyly up to (lie speaker nnd, suddenly catching his rest by the lower corner and giving It n sharp pull upward, It opened wide, and out fell upon tho platform In' full rlew of tho nstoulshed nudlcnce a mass of nulled -'''- .cold vAtcu. .cUalsa seals nTnT glltterliigTowelJiT "lhn"'Ma-tlieny "lhn"'Ma-tlieny was there nnd nearly broke his OUI ELI, A MA8S OF nUI'1'I.GD HIII1IT, COM) WATCH, CHAINS, HKAI.8 ANI1 OUT-TEItlNO OUT-TEItlNO JEWKLH. heart with mirth. "Tho crowd couldn't stand It, hiit shouted uproariously." It must havo been then that Abo delivered deliv-ered tho following speech, although Nlnlim V. Edwards places It lu 1810: "Whllo ho Colonel Tnylor was making theso charges' ugiilust the Whigs over tho country, riding In fluo carriages, wearing ruined bhlrts, kid gloves, massive gold watch chains, with large gold seals, and flourishing n heavy gold headed cane, he Lincoln) wns n poor boy, hired 011 a llatboat at $S a month and had only one pair of breeches to his lack. and tlie.v were buckskin, 'and,' said Lincoln, 'If you know the nature of buckskin when wet nnd dried by tlio sun they will shrink, nnd mine kept shrinking until tbey left several Inches of my legs bare between the toiis of my socks and the tower part of my brooches, and whilst, I wns growing taller they were becoming bliortor and so much tighter that they left a blue streak around my leg$ that can be seen to this day. If yoll call tills aristocracy, I plead guilty to the charge.' " Abe Lincoln Leads His Ticket. Hitherto Sangamon county had been uniformly Democratic, but at this election elec-tion tho Whigs carried It by 1111 aver-ago aver-ago majority of about -100, Mr. Lincoln receiving a larger voto than any other candidate. Tho result was lu part duo to n transitory and abortive attempt of tho antl-Jncksou and anti-Van Huron men. toJju!ld un a third party, with JuejgO"Wnito of Penuessee us us leud-er. leud-er. This party was not supposed to bo wedded to tho "specie circular," was thought to bo open to conviction on the bonk question, clamored loudly about the business Interests and general distress dis-tress of tho country nnd wns actually In favor of tho distribution of the pro- HrjBHHfiaH m rflHflau 4vJ ? rjBn M W sHWC, j?'2.Qaflarr raavr laaakambV-'ir aVLUB aaaafctw lfi!ka'at .aHaaH WWMBR.toaaAjini afflaCaHaaaW JOSHUA V. Bt'CKll. ceeds of tho sales of tho public lands. In the nomeuclaturo of Illinois, Its members might havo been called "nominal "nom-inal Jackson men" that Is to say, men who continued to act with tho Democratic Demo-cratic party while disavowing Its cardinal principles traders, trlinmersv cautious schismatics who argued tho cause of Democracy from n brief furnished fur-nished by tho enemy. Tlio diversion In favor of White was Just to tho hand of the Whigs, nnd they nlded It lu every ev-ery practicable way. Always for an expedient when an expedient would answer, n compromise; when n compromise compro-mise would, do, the "hand" Mr. Lincoln Lin-coln "showed" at tho opening of tho campaign contained tho "White" card among the highest of Its trumps. "If nllvo 011 tho first Monday lu November, I shall voto for Hugh L. White for president." A number of local Democratic Demo-cratic politicians asslstlug lilm to play It, It won the game lu 1830, nnd Sangamon Sanga-mon county went over to the Whigs. At this election Mr. Douglas was mndo 11 representative from Morgan county, nloug with Colonel Hardin, from whom he hnd the jear before taken tho Htate's attorneyship. The event Is notable piluclpnlly because Mr. Douglas was nominated by a convention con-vention untl not by tho old system of celf iiunouui'ement, which, under the Influence of eastern Immigrants, like himself, full of party zeal and uttached to the customs uf the places whence they came, was gradually but surely falling Into disfavor. Mr. Douglas served only ono notion and then became be-came register of the land olUce at eiprluglleld. .The licit je.tr he wns nominated for congress In the I'eurla dlHtilct under tho conve.Ulou system, and lit the same year Colonel Htephen-son Htephen-son was nominated for governor lu tho same way. The Whigs were soon compelled com-pelled to ndopt tho device which they, snw marshaling the Democrats lu a state of cumpleto discipline whllo they themselves were disorganized by i host of volunteer candidates nnd the opera-tloiu opera-tloiu of Innumerable cliques nnd, factions. fac-tions. At flrst "It wns considered II Yankee contrivance," Intended to abridge the liberties of tho people, hut the Whig "people" wero ns foud of victory, olllces and power as their enemies en-emies were, nnd In duo tlmo they took very kindly to this elfectual means of gaining them. A speech of Ebcnezer Peck of Chicago "before igreat meeting meet-ing of the lobby durlng-thc special sea-hlon sea-hlon of IS.15-3U at Vandalla." being n production of special Ingenuity nnd power, Is supposed to havo contributed largely to tho Introduction of the con. ventlon system Into the middle nud eouthciu parts.of the state. Mr. Peck wus then a fervent Dcmn-rai ojii the Whigs dollslit ' v uadlnu in. 1 1 he wits tt' ' their great leacu:, y , It was wheu the counters r .1 land ofllccs were piled high with Illusory Illu-sory bank uotca In exchange for pul-lie pul-lie lands nnd when It was believed that the west was now at last about to bound forward lu n career of unexampled unexam-pled prosperity under the forcing process proc-ess of public Improvements by tho statcj, with the uld nnd countenance of the federal government, that Mr. Lincoln went up to ntteud tho flrat session ses-sion of the now legislature, nt Vandalla Van-dalla He wna big wjth projects. Ills real public sen Ice wuu Just now nbout to begin. In tho prevjous h'gtshtturo ho had been silent, observant, studious. ITe had Improved tho opportunity so well that of nil mini lu this new hoih of equal ago lu tho service ho was tho smartest parliamentarian mid tho cun-nlngest cun-nlngest "log roller," Ho was fully determined de-termined to Identify himself conspicuously conspicu-ously with tho "liberal" legislation In contemplation nud dreamed of a.fmno very dlfJcrcut from that which ho actually ac-tually obtained ns an nnllslavcry leader. lead-er. It waa nbout this tlmo that ho told his friend Mr, Speed that he alined ot the great distinction of being called "the Da Witt Clinton of Illinois." Meeting with a view to this sort of legislation had been held In all or nearly near-ly nil tho cuanMos In the Btnto during tho preceding summer nnd falL Hard money, strict construction, uo monopoly, monop-oly, autlprogresslvo Douiocrnts wero In n Hid minority. Iu truth, thero was llttlo division of parties about theso matters, which wcro deemed sn csson-tlal csson-tlal to tho prosperity of n new stato. Tkcro waa Mr. Lincoln nud thero wns Mr. Douglas In iorfect uiilaou 03 to tho grand object to bo accomplished, j but mortally Joolous ns to which nhould tako tho lend In accomplishing It Mr. Lincoln percd 0:1 tHo committee ou hnanco nnd was 0 mq.it laborious ,Bt1n.UeriJtnt IrtfieapijjiiiiJ p.iiUjf m-iiaat - 0U4 . - - k " |
