Queer Speech For A President

Washington, Nov. 17. This afiernoou the Mitryland Republican State Central Gomuiittee, formaily callecl upoh President Lincoln to congralulata iiimon his re-clection. W. II. Purnell, tiaeir chairman, iu his address, paid tltey felt under ducp obligation to liiin, because hy the exercise oi rare disortttion on his part, Mavyl&nd to day ouuupied the proud poni'ion of a iree ctato, uud they dösired that hw future adinmistiation, as in the past, might rogult in tho resloratioa of tlio Union, with nnieriíal freedom as .ts itumatable banis. The Preáideat, in reply, said he would not attemp.t to conoaul his grutitication witl) the result of the eleution. He had exeroised his best judgment for the go.öd of the whola oonutiy, and to havo the aeal of approbatiou placed on tai oourso ws exoeedingiy grateful to bis feelicgs. He erpfesad his belief that the pülicy ho had pnrsued was the beet and unlj one which could gave tho country, He rmgated wbat ho had said beiore, that h.eBöulged in do feeling of triumph over any one vvho had thought or acted differently f rom hiin Bulf. He had no 6ueh feeling toward any living man. He thought the adoptioQ ef a freo state coustitution ior Murvland was "a big ihing?1 and a victory for í'ight, and worth a great deal inore than the part of Maryland ia the leetion - although of the latter he thought vvell. In conclusión, ho re (juatud what he had previously said, iiutiiel)1, that ''those who diffeied fi'oiu, iind opposed us, vvill see that defeat was better for tkeir own gond, ttian rf they bad bon suceessful."