JUNl'~ 10, 18H7.

Do-rglas-c-hut the final result proved him to made by other cities-especially St. Louis- be wis l' than all his crities. The Hon, Rob- whic' desired to secure the convention, the ert R. Hitt, who has since held the position se leot lon of was acquiesced in, and of Secretary of the American IJegation at !\londay, JUly 5, being nearest to the 4th, Paris, and Assistant Secretary of State, and was chosen as the time. who for fifteen years past has been a Repre- No official report' of the proceedings of this sent.a.ttve in Congress from the Rockford important conventton was ever publrshed , District, was the prIncipal reporter em- bu. Robert Fergus has rendered all impor- ployed by THE TRIBUNEin reporting these tan'. service to the cause of local and general debates, although he was assisted by Mr. history by the compilation fron. the press, f Henry Binmore and others. that day and ot.lversources, of an account of If the campaigns of 1856and 1858indicated the event, which was published in 1882as No. that the Republican party was in its forma- 18 of the" Fergus Historical Series." Many t iv e stage, that of 1860proved it to be a com- men whose names were wcll know n, not only pleted and successful organization. The in Chicago, but throughout the nation, were holding of the convention in Chicago this identified with the movement. Among the year again gave THE TRIBUNE an oppor- list of members of the various local cornmtt- tunity to display its enterprise. and this It tees were such familiar names as Willtam B. did most successfully. It bad been a zeal- Ogden, Mark Skinner, J. Young Scammon, ous supporter of Mr. Lincoln's claims for Isaac N. Arnold, ;Norman B. Judd, S. Lisle the nommatton, and now it was able to make Smith, John Wentworth, Geo'rge Manierre, its advocacy most effective. No sucb com- Grant Goodrich, Thomas Hoyn«, B. W. Ray- plete report of the national convention of mond, Richard L. vVilson, F. C. Sherman, any party had ever been published. It gave Walter L. Newberry. Jesse, B. Thomas, V.'ill- not only verbatim reports of the proceedings iam H. Brown, George Smith. P. F. W. Peck, and speeches, but also reported, every inci- Samuel Hoard, Dr. Levi D. Boone, Dr. Do ntel dent and occurrence of importance con- Brainard, Henry Brown, the first historian nected with the convention. That THE of IIIinots, and many others whose names TRIBUNEdid its full part in the organization were familiar to Chicagoans a half century of the Republican party cannot be ques- ago. Among over 10()signers 0, a letter to tioned in the face of evidence furnished by its Daniel Webs ter- inviting him to be present Iiles. were the fodowmg, who still Sl rvive: And- Nomination of . rew Blaikic, Wrlltam Blair, At-thur G. Bur- ley, Silas B Cobb, Stephen F. Gale, Charles On the day after the nomination of Mr. H. Vandercook, Kathaniel P. Wilder, How The Tribune Lincoln for the Presideney (May 19, 1860) Thomas B. Carter, and glisha \I Willard. THE TRIBUNE, in a double-leaded leader Nine-teen Sta t es were repr-esentod in the said: convention, including ever y New Flng'Ia.nd BIRTH OF ••The age of purity returns. After a suc- State except Vermont. the Southern States cession of Presidents who have not only of Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, and South been subseryient to the interests of the Carolma, and most of the Mtddlo West- JOURNALISM. propagandists of human slavery but corrupt ern States, together with New York and There has not been entire a.ccor-t between to a degree alarming to the truest friends Pennsylvania. Most of the prine Ipa.l cities- aut!1orities as tu the date when the first of ropubltcan institutions, the nomination especially those on the \\- estern rivers-were newspaper was esta blished in Illinois, of Abraham Lincoln-Honest Old Abe-by represented, while many counties in Illinois though there has been unlversat agreement 'the great Republican party is a guaranty and adjoining- States sent Ia rg e deleg-ations. as to the name of the paper and t h.it uf the that the country . . . desires to return As Chicago had then an estimated popula- founder. The latter was MattlJew Duncan, newsp to the sterling honesty and Democratic sim- tton of 16,000it may be assumed that its hos- Juhn plicity which marked the ad~inistrations pitality was taxed to the utmost. as the local a brother of Joseph Durn an, who was for six years a member of Cong-ress from I1:!- Dorno of Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and Jackson. newspapers put the number of strangers in after The party has not mistaken Ihe man select- the 'city at ~;;,OOO, while Horace Greeley. in nois and Oover-nor of the State from 18:14'0 prtse ed for a standard-bearer. Mr. Lincoln is his report to the New York Tribune, placed 1838. The nam ' of this pioneer journal was establi the very soul of integrity. In all his life, the number at 20,000, of whom 10,000 were the Illinois Herald and its place of pnblica- t.he III now extending over fifty-one years, there is members of the convention. tion was Kaskaskia, then the capital of Illi- cis at not an act of commission or omission by nois Territory. Gov. .Iohn Reynolds, w 110 ure w which his thorough uprightness, his exact Prominent Men Who Took Part. names are familiar to the older citizens of away by the excitement caused by the won- came to Illinois as a boy in 1800, in his rne is conscientiousness, his perfect integrity are After a processlon under the direction of ••Pioneer History of Illinois," fixes the date GENESIS OF THE Chicago and the State. derful oration and had made no report or the III impaired .... Dr. Philip Maxwell as marshal of the day, of the first issue of the Herald as 1809,the year This convention-though perhaps little sketch of the speech." ••He Is a conservative anti-slavery man the convention met in a tent 100feet square, REPUBLICAN PARTY. noted at the time-has given to Blooming- The above extract has been gIven as an same year in which Illinois was senaro tod transre against whom no allegation of fanaticism erected in the public square. on whtcn the from Indiana and placed un.tor a dtst.inot who co There is no more interesting or important ton a historical interest which has rendered indication of the intensity of feeling which will hold good. . . . The uprising in his Cour-thouse and City Hall now stand. An or- chapter in t re history of this country, from it a sort of political Mecca. It was here that pervaded the country at the time the Repub- Territorial g·overnment. There is good rca- final sus favor has been spontaneous-the outgrowth ganization was effected with Edward Bates son for believing that the Governor was sorpuon the formation of the Federal Constitution .Tesse W. Fell, who had the credit of first lican party was in process of organization, of a widespread conviction of his fitness and of St. Louis-afterwards President Lincoln's mistaken in this statement, as t he «lllle't CHICAGO up to the civil war, than that which record nominating Lincoln for the Presidency, as well as some of the means by which that availability. . . . He goes into the Pres- first Attorney-General-as President, while and to whom Lincoln sent that quaint biog- organization was efl'ected. Others have issue of the Illinois Herald (No. 32 of Vol. The se the organization of the Republican party. idential chair clean-handed and pure; and, Schu~']er Colfax of Indiana, who was Vice- IL) known to be in existence in recent years, Chicag'o raphy of himself, resided. John M. Palmer, given a similar description of the scene on President during President Grant's first While the revolution won independence for when President. his distribution of the pat- bears date April 18, 1816. Calculating from which wa afterwards a Major-General, Gover nor, and that memorable occasion when history was ronage will be governed by the wants and term, was one of the secretaries Letters the colonies, the civil war resulted in estab- lastly United States Senator, then ~,zealous beIng made. this, If the paper was issued continuously O. Davis, exigencies of the public service, and not Ly were read (or received) from Daniel Web- and without a break from its original ostab- lishing the principle not only that all men Republican, presided. Joseph de dill, ed- Republican Editors Meet in Chicago. ster, , Justice John McLean of wn s a vVh the loud clamors of men who urge their lishment the date of the first issue must c. »mnctttor are equal, in accordance with the Declara- itor of THE TRIBUNE,in an article com- claims upon the ground of past support. the Supreme Court, ex-President Martin municated to McClure's Magazine of Sep- There was another meeting of anti-Ne- have been about Sept. 6, 1814, two years h. July, 18, tion of Independence, but that they are also braska editors (by that time known as" Re- . . Being all that the exigencies of the Van Buren, 'l'homas H. Benton of Missouri. after the date of the massacre at Fort ["o"ar- VTilIiam Stu, tember, 18!l6, has given the following ac- publican ") at the old Tremont House in the times demand, whether estimated as to abil- Gov. Silas Wright, Daniel S. Dickinson, and created free. Although the Republican par- count of thts convention: born and thirty-six vears after Illinois be- boga n th"l pu ty at the outset did not aim at the achieve- City of Chicago on the evening of Dec. 10, ity, tact, integrity, or faithfulness to prin- Wa shtng ton Hunt of New York, John Minor came a part of United States terr. 'or~ a" ••It (the convention) was composed of ciple. his nomination will be taken up with Botts of Virginia, and many more, while. Issued in Chi ment of this result by violence. or expect the 1856. This was held at the invitation of the the result of the capture of Kaskaskia by sue of Pie D Abolitionists. Free-Soil Whigs. and Anti- Chicago Fremont club for the purpose of the zeal and enthusiasm which foreshad- the principal speakers were . complete removal of slavery to follow sud- Nebraska Democrats. Owen Lovejoy em- Col. George Rogers Clark. Evidence cor- .c~fter a varte celebrating and rejoicing over-in connec- ow not only success but majorities un- horace Greeley, the late David Dudley roborative of this date is found in the fad denly, or even in a single generation, its final bodied the first named, Abraham Lincoln equaled in the political history of the free Field, and Thomas Butler King of Georgia. ican was SliSPE-' tion with a banquet to the Republi an ed- that the Missourt Gazette-the predecessor t l.e Chicago E accomplishment was the outcome and and John M. Palmer the second and third itors of the State-the victory wh ch had States." Abraham Lincoln, then the only Whig Rep- elements; the whole united made the new of the old Missouri Republican, now t.I;e St. from the ruins. consequence of agencies which were put in been won at the polls in the electton of the This prediction was fully verified in the resentative in Congress from Illinois, was Louis Republic-which began to be published Republican party, which has dominated the entire Republican State ticket in No ember. election of the foilowing November, Mr. one of three delegates from Sangamon uppeartng OJ'! 0 operation by that party and indorsed by the State ever since. . . . in 1808,makes no mention of the Ka.ska.skta torshtp of V\'iIIi~ people in the election of Abraham Lincoln It was more largely attended than the De- Lincoln receiving the Electoral vote of every ('uunty. The Chicago Journal of the second paper before 1814, although these were the ••At this Bloomington Republican con- catur convention had been, as some who Northern State except New Jersey, which day of the convention (July 6) 'refers to this teen one of the la to the Presidency in 1860. only two papers then published west of Vin- The old material vention delegates were appointed who voted doubted the wisdom of the latter had by was di\'ided between him and Douglas. as "his first visit to the comrm rctal em- The reorganization of THE TRIBUNE in to nominate Fremont for President. Abra- cennes. in the publlcat lo 1855came at an opportune moment, not only ham Lincoln was placed at the head of the Se-rvices of Editor Cook. e.rra.ngernent was for the cause which it was to espouse but State Electoral ticket, and free soil resolu- 'l'he Herald was sold in August. 1817, to months, when the at tions were passed. John M. Palmer pre- went another chang for the success of the paper itself. The Daniel P.Cook and Robert Blackwell. Cook, sided and made a stirring free soil speech. who had preViously been Auditor of Public in, a the ha nds of a causes put in operation a year previous by Mr. Lincoln, who was a delegate, counseied of plominent Whig: the repeal of the Missouri compromise had Accounts for the Territory, and had been every step that was taken in his quiet, per- succeeded in that office by Blackwell, be- miliar names as Ge had the effect of loosening party ties, and suasive way. A sharp dispute broke out in Frink (the stage rout. the opponents of that act were eagerly seek- came the editor of the paper, and its name the Platform committee between the rad- was changed to Illinois Inteiligencer. To contractor) , Buckner ing new political affiliations. In Illinois Icals, led by the Abolitionist, Owen Lovejoy Young Scammon, S. L they had already succeeded in electing a follow out the history of Cook. He became (afterwards member of Congress), and O. H. a Circuit Judge under the 'l'erritorial gov- :-:~'wbcrry, nIles Spr representative of their views to the United Browning (afterwards Senator and Secre- and George VV.Dole. States Senate in the person of the late Ly- ernment the next year, was the first At- tary of the Interior), leading the conserva- torney-General under the State govern- Birth of the Ev man Trumbull, and were organizing for tives. Lincoln acted as a peacemaker and future conflicts. They had held their first ment, and for eight years was the brilliant The next stag" in th counselor. He advised the committee to Representative in Congress from the Hew State convention during the State Fair at indorse 'the Declaration of Independence Icun-Ex preas enter: ri Springfield in October, 1854, and, although State. For his efI1clent service while in Con- men t of the Cht. ag» and the rights of man and to declare that, in gress. in securing the first donation of pub- in the absence of local organizations only a accordance with the opinions and practices the editorial and bu. few counties were represented, and most of lic lands for the construction of the Illinois Richa rd L. Wilson ill of the great statesmen of all parties for the and Mi: higan Canal, Coo~ County was thes by self-appointed delegates, the dec- last sixty years, Congress possessed full con- first Issue of the new laration of principles put forth proved the named in his honor. The IntelligenceI' was' .)<) 1~4!. A few me stitutional power to prohibit slavery in all removed to Vandalia after the transfer of moderation and political sagacity of its Territories, and that such power should be ship of the paper pa member's. the State Capital to that place, and under t lie Publtcat ton comm exerted to prevent such extension,' which other management became an opponent of 11 f'hicago, as also throughout the north- was done. Mr. Browning was allowed to wnson and Nathan C ern half of the Statd generally, the OIJPO- the scheme for a revision of the State Con- tired some three year add some high-sounding platitudes to the stitution, w hir-h had for its object the es- nents of the Nebraska act far outnumbered platform. He made the opening speech in brot.her-, Charles L., be its supporters. THE 'J'RIBUNE,in 18;;5,thus tablishment of slaverv in Illinois during the the management. and the convention and delivered it in a courtly years 1822-'24. found an audience in full sympathy with its manner and orotund voice, advising great of the former in li<~,( views, and the [act that its circulation more moderation and invoking the convention' to 0111")' Two Other Newspapers In 1820. owner. He died at S than doubled within three months of the ever remember that slavery itself was one ,\'hen this question was broached there 1878.' Among those cha.nge of proprietors proves how hearty of the compromises of the Constitution and were only two other papers in the State- Jnurnal In SOUle capa l that sympathy was. In view of approach- was sacredly protected by the supreme law.' the Shawnee Ch lef', afterward Illinois Erni- tory were Benjamin ing State and nationai elections in 1856,the He was foilowed by the radical Owen LOVe- grant, and still later Gazette, which had novelIst, and war corr work of organization on the basis of restric- joy in a terrific declamation against slavery been established at Sha.wneqtown in 1818, Guv. Shuman, Mr. Geo tion of the! urther extension of slav ery into and all its works." and the Edwa.rdnvtlle Spectator, founded by THE 'J'WBUNE), the Ia t Andre Matteson, H the Territories went on with great activity. Mr. Lincoln'lI Great Speech. Hooper \Varren u.t Edwardsville, Madison An additional element of interest was fur- County, in 1819. The founder of the Shaw- Rrc'wne (now or the Then followed a description, by a ••free neetown paper was Henry Eddy. an able whoso na.mes have be nish ed by the attempt to force slavery upon State" man from Kansas, of the outrages Kansas, and numerous meetings were held lawyer, though James Hall, af'terwa rd a na.l st ic <'ircles in Chica perpetrated in that Territory by the" border narne of Wils on has be and much money raised in Chicago lO defeat ruffians" from Missouri, after which Mr. Cir-cutt Judge and State Treasurer and t he the scheme-i-Hor ace Vhite, who about the most prolific and popular writer of his day paper through a ll its Medill's account continues: Richrtrd L. \\-ilson bel' same time became a Ieporter of THE TRIB- •• Lincoln was vociferously called for from in Illinois, was for a time one of the editors. UNFJand still later its editor, being Assistant Judge Hall afterward founded the Illinois of the Jour-nat of 1814, all parts of Majors' large hall (the place Wtlson, being one of th Secretary of the Kansas National commit- where the convention was held). He came Magazine, which was finally removed 10 tee. , where it became the West ern Allusion ha.s been rna forward and took the platform beside the Monthly Magazine. The Shawneetown paper in order- of establishmer F rst Convention in Deratur. presiding officer. At first his voice was published articles on both sides of the ing the American, th Ear y in 18;;6 the first effective steps to- shrill and hesitating. There was a curtous slavery question, though its general tend- Journal as the same wards the consolidation of the opponents introspective look in his eyes. which lasted ency was in opposition to the proslavery nomens. This third pa f slavery extension in Illinois into a com- for a few moments. Then his voice began to amendment. The Edwardsville Spectator. Commerctal Advertiser et and ermancnt party organization move steadily and smoothly forward, and edited by Hooper Warr-en, aided by an able Oct. 11, 1,~~6,with Hn re taken. This was done at a convention the modulations were under perfect control corps of contributors, inclnding Gov. Co.lex, and E'lwrtrd H. Rud ant.i-Nebra.ska editors of the State held from thence forward to the finish. He Judge Samuel D. Lockwood, Daniel P. Cook, known as a H liberty p, Decat.ur Feb. 22-the same day on which warmed up as he went on and spoke more George Churchill, the Rev. Thomas Lippin- a year, when Its mater umber of representatives of the same rapidly; he looked a foot taller as he cott, 1\1orris Birkbeck, and others, was most Lowell, La Salle Count itical views met at Pittsburg, Pa., and, by straightened himself to his full height, and pronounced in opposition to the convention celebrated abolitionists, .point.ing a national committee. made his eyes flashed fire; his countenance became Linotypes in The T ribene Composing Room. scheme, and exerted a wide influence. 'Var- and Zebina Eastman, in oparatton for the first Republican Na- wrapped in intense emotion; he rushed along ------..::--=------ren afterward established the first paper at the Genius of Untvers like a thunderstorm. He prophesied war as tiona) convention, held at Philadelphia, June this time become convinced. Among those porium of the State," and adds: ••We have Springfield (the Sangamo Spectator), pub- later the Genius of Libe 17 following. THE TRIBUNE had strongly the outcome of these aggressions, and present not of the editorial profession, as RIVER il1'ld HARBOR lished a paper at Galena previous to 1830, advocate of the emancip poured forth hot denunciations upon the no doubt his visit will impress him more race. War-ren, who had indo rsed the Decatur convention in advance, shown by the report printed in THE TRIBUNE deeply, if possible, with the importance and founded the third paper in Chicago (the i.nd was represented by one of its editors slave power. The convention was kept in an of the next day, were Abraham Lincoln, CONVENTION. old Commercial Advertiser in 1836), and t'~e anti-slavery contest uproar, applauding and cheering and stamp- inspire him with zeal for the great interest -Dr. C. 1I. Ray. The full list of editors Owen Lovejoy (who had just been elected to Many important events have occurred .was for a time associated with Zebina of the Edwardsville Sp ing; and this reacted on the speaker, and of river and harbor improvements. We elated with the Genius f present and participating in the proceedings Congress for the first time), James Miller since THE TRIBUNEbegan its existence, with expect much from him as a Representative J;Jastman in the publication of the Fr -e gave him a tongue of fire. The thrilling scene (State Treasurer-elect), Elisha P. Ferry West and Western Citizen, dying at Men- as a .correspondent, and 'm rra ced Dr. Ray of THE TRIBUNE,George in that old Bloomtngtr.n hall, forty yen rs which it has been more or less conspicuously in Congress, and we have no doubt our ex- 5chnetuE'l' of the Chicago Staats Zeit.ung ; (then of "\Vaukegan-afterwards Governor of dota in 1864 while returning from Chicago of the Genius of Libert ago, rises in my mind as vividly as the day Identified, either as a news medium or as a pectations will be more than realized, for gives an interesting acco E. C. Da.ughezf y, Rockford Register; O. P. Washington, both as a Territory and a never was reliance placed In a nobler heart to his home in Marshall County. after its enactment. State), the late B. C. Cook (then of Ottawa), leader of public opinion, and which may be able contest and the chie Wharton, fiock Island Advertiser; T. J. ••There stood Lincoln in the forefront, and a sounder jUdgment. We know the Slavery Q,uestion Promotes Journalism Picke1 t, Peoria Republican; V. Y. Ralston, Isaac N. Arnold. Dr. W. B. Egan, and many regarded as landmarks in the history not Out oi the one weekly erect, tall, and majestic in appearance, hurl- banner he bears will never be soiled." Interest in the slavery ISHle led to the the ri ontter capital of Quincy, Wh lg : Ci aries Faxon, Princeton more whose names would still be familiar merely of Chicago but of the whole country. Horace Greeley in one of his letters alludas ing thunderbolts at the foes of freedom, to Chicagoans. J. Young Scammon presided, One of these took place almost stmultaneous- establishment of two other papers in 1822, cording to the Americ, Post: A. N. Ford, Lacon Gazette; B. }l'. while the great convention roared in in- to Mr. Lincoln as ••a tall specimen of an both of which were zealous champions for Shaw. Dixon Telegraph; E. W. Blaisdell, and letters were read from Senator Seward Iy with the advent of the paper, and while rectory for 11>97,have gre dorsement! I never witnessed such a scene IllinoIsan, just elected to Congress from the the introduction of slavery in Illinois, and, publications of all sort. "'ford Republican; Paul Selby, Jackson- of New York, Gov. Salmon P. Chase of , It absorbed for the time being the attention only Whig district in the State," who" was before or since. As he described the. aims Gov. J. W. Grimes of Iowa, Cassius M. of the whole city, it excited deep interest by a remarka le coincidence both bore the cilies, towns, and villag Journal; and W. J. Usrey, Decatur and aggressions of the unappeasable slave- called out and spoke briefly and happily in name ••Repul Ican;" One of t hese was the iele-a round dozen, others being pre- Clay of Kentucky, Senator TrumbUll, and tqroughout the Nation. '1'his was the rtvcr which publications 171a holders and the servility of their Northern reply to Mr. [DaVid Dudley] Field," who Republican A vocate, at Kaskaskia, which PUblished in the City of from arriving on time by a snow others. Of some thirteen regular toasts pro- and harbor convention held at Chicago on had made a moderate speech on tlie side of allies, as illustrated by the perfidious repeal posed the first was as follows: July 5-7, 1847; in fact, there is a tradition was established as the personal organ of de upon the railroads. Small as was the" strict constructionists." Other celeb- ,Elias Kent Kane, then Secrdary of State, of the Missouri Compromise two years pre- ••The Union-the Korth Will Maintain U, that it was with a view to the promotion Prediction on Chlca number, they did their work effectively rities present, not already named, included who was seeking an election to tbe United vto asty, and their grasping after the rich the South Wil! Not Depart Therefrom." of one of these enterprises, had in view in During a speech in the well. Dr. Ray served as Chairman of prairies of Kansas and Nebraska, to blight Zachariah Chandler of Michigan, John C. States Senate, and the orhcz- the Star of 'ommittee on Resolutions, Mr. Schnei- This was appropnately responded to by calling that convention at the City of Chi- Spencer of New York, Anson Burlingame fore the Chicago Lyce them with slavery and to deprive free labor Mr. Lincoln, who was, a few years later, to cago-to-wit: the connection of the lakes the 'Vest, at Edwardsville-changed a few Brown, who wrote ••B ielng' also a member. of this rich inheritance, and exhorted the of , Gov. William Bebb and months later to the Illinois I;epublican, and, aham Lincoln was present and in close play so important a part in the fulfillment of the North with the rivers of the South Stanley Matthews of Ohio, Andrew Stewart Illinois," made this prot: friends of freedom to resist them to the under the management of a zealous body of persons now ltvmg (tho rence wtth the committee, and made a of its predictions. His speech was directed by the completion of the Illinois and Michi- of Pennsylvania, and Thurlow Weed of the proslavery advocates, it became the leading death, the convention went fairly wild. It largely to a sarcastic criticism upon the gan ~anal-that THE TRIBUNEwas estab- Albany Evening Journal. Chicago who will see cteristic speech at a banquet given to paralleled or exceeded the scene in the Revo- organ of that party. :rheophilus VV.Smith, ditors in the evening. A platform was message of President Pierce just addressed lished. 'I'hts conception had stirred the Jlltnosa and 200.000 In lutionary Virginia convention of eighty-one to Congress, congratulating the country imagination of the French "voyageurs," ed and a State Central committee ap- years before, when Patrick Henry invoked fited , with instructions to issue a call on the election of Buchanan to the Presi- who were the first to visit the Illinois coun- death if liberty could not be pre ser-ved,and dency. The closing sentences are an appe aI try, and had been a favorite scheme 'With for a delegate State convention, to be held said: • After all, we must fight.' ••• It at Bloomington, May 29, following. 'i'he call for union and harmony between the op- all who had speculated upon the com- is difficult to name any speech by another ponents of the Democratic party. As re- mercial possibilities of this region. It had was issued; the convention held; a ticket for orator delivere.d on the same subject, about State officers, with Col. William H. Bissell ported by THE TRIBUNE, this part of the been commended to the attention of Con- that time or subsequently, that equaled it- speech was as follows: gress by Albert Gallatin, then Secretary of at its head for Governor, was nominated, not excepting those made by Sumner, and it was elected in November. It was at ••In the late contest we were divided be- the Treasury, as early as 1808; had been the Seward, and Chase-In strength of argument subject of a report to the Michigan Ter- this convention in Bloomington that Abra- or dramatic power. tween Fremont and I<'illmore. Can we not come together for the future? Let every ritorial Legislature in 1812, and of treaty ham Lincoln made his great speech which ••It was my journalistic duty, though a by its magnetic power and convincing elo- one who really believes and is resolved that negotiations with the Illinois Indians in delegate, to make a longhand report. of the free society is not and shall not be a failure 1816; had been favorably mentioned by quence so aroused everybody that the report- speeches delivered for THE CHICAGOTRIB- ers forgot to make a report of it THETRiBUNE and who can conscientiously declare that Secretary of War John C. Calhtun in 1819; UNE. I did make a few paragraphs of re- in the past contest he has done only what had been hinced at by Nathaniel Pope as and the Democratic Press-then separate port of what Lincoln said in the first eight establishments, but agreeing on the one he thought best-let every such one have Delegate to Congress from the Territory of or ten minutes; but I became so absorbed in Illinois in his speech on the Illinois enabling great issue-v. er e represented in this con- his magnetic oratory that I forgot myself charity to betteve that every other can say as much. Thus let bygones be bygones, let act in April, 1818,and had received the com- vention, both on the floor and at the le- and ceased to take notes and joined with porters' table. There were many othr-rs past differences as nothing be; and, with mendation of Govs. Bond, Coles, and Dun- the convention in cheering and stamping and can from 1818to 1834,besides being the sub- from Chicago who then or afterward be- clapping to the end of his speech. . • . It steady eye on the real issue, let us retnau- gurate the good old central ideas of the Ject of Congressional action in 1822and 1827. came prominent leaders of the party, Includ- was some sort of satisfaction to find that I ng Isaac N. Arnold, John Wentworth, had not been • scooped,' as all the newspa- republic. We can do it. The human heart Enthusiallm for the Project. ~ ezer Peck, N. B. JUdd, and others whose per men present had been equaily carried is with us; God is with us. We shall again The Niles Register in 1814, speaking of be able not to declare that • all States are the possibility of opening a waterway com- equal' [a phrase used in the President's munication from Buffalo to New Orleans message, upon which Mr. Lincoln was com- through Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan mcntmg], nor yet that' all citizens as citi- down the Illinois River to the Mississippi. zens are equal,' but to renew the broader, in a burst of enthusiasm had said; ••What better deelaration Includfng both these s nd a route! How stupendous the idea! How much more, that • all men are created equal.' •• dwindles the importance of the artificial canals of Europe compared with this water Speeches were also delivered by Owen communication I If it should take place the Lovejoy, T J. Turner, Ebenezer Peck, B. Territory of Illinois will become the seat of C. Cook, and others. immense commerce and a market for the Cam),aig-ns of 1856 and 1860. \ commodities of all regions." Conventions having for their object the The campaign of 18;;8 opened with the promotion of the improve nent of Western. nomination of Mr. Lincoln for the United rivers and harbors had be en held at Cincin- States Senate, to which he responded in his nati, Louisville, Memphis. and St. Louis in memorable "house-divided-against-itself" previous years. In the fail of 1846a move- speech-a production even more significant ment for the holding of a similar convention than his Bloomington speech of 1856,when in Chicago was broached, William Mosley the remarkable fulfillment of his predictions Hall, who died in New York City Nov. 8, is taken into account. This opening was 1894,being the originator and Ieadtng cham- followed in the next few weeks by the series pion of the measure. The first meeting on of debates with Douglas, and in the pub- the subject was held at Rathbun's Hotel, Iica tton of thcse as they occurred THE TRIB- New York City, Sept. 28, 1846, William UNEaccomplished the greatest feat of jour- Duane Wilso n, then of Milwaukee, but later nalism so far undertaken or performed by an editorial writer on THE TRIBUNE,being the press of this country, either East or chosen to preside, while Robert Fergus. t he 'Vest. It was a feat which vastly extended venerable pioneer printer of Chicago, served the reputation and influence of the paper as one of the Vice-Presidents, and Mr. Hall, and assisted to build up the Republican already mentioned, whose home was tl;on party. It is true that some of Mr. Lincoln's in Burtalo, was one of the Secretaries. Res- friends doubted the wisdom of some of his olutions were adopted favoring the holding acts in connection with those debates-espe- or the convention in Chicago in the following cially r arding the questions put by him to summer, and although some opposition was