The Republican Nomination For The Presidency

The Republican convention at Chicago have nominated Abraham Lincoln of Illinois for president of the United States - a third-rate western lawyer, poorer even than poor Pierce. The conduct of the Republican party in this nomination is a remarkable instance of small intellect growing smaller. They pass over Seward, Chase and Banks, who are statesmen and able men, and they take up a fourth-rate lecturer who cannot speak good grammar, and who, to raise the wind, delivers his hackneyed, illiterate compositions at $200 apiece. Our readers will recollect that this peripatetic politician visited New York two or three months ago on his finaneial tour, when, in return, for the most unmitigated trash, interlaced with coarse and clumsy jokes, he filled his empty pockets with dollars coined out of Republican