Mr. Lincoln was never an office-seeker: he is not now. He was never accused of pulling the wires to secure his own nomination to any office. On the other hand, again and again, he has labored for the promotion of others, when his friends desired to promote him. In 1854, he stumped the State of Illinois, in connection with other speakers; and the result was, that, for the first time, the State had a Republican legislature. That legislature had the choice of a United-States senator to make, and they desired to choose Mr. Lincoln. But he entreated them to elect Mr. Trumbull; and it was only by his own earnest appeals that they were induced to drop Mr. Lincoln's name. Subsequently, he was offered the nomination for Governor of Illinois; but he declined the honor in favor of Mr. Bissell. And, when Mr. Seymour became Governor of New York, Mr. Lincoln generously sent the message to him, that he (Mr. Seymour) had it within his power to be the next President of the United States. He had so little thought or desire for the office himself, that he would gladly welcome a political opponent to it, provided he would labor to save the Union. Few public men have been so magnanimous as this. Few have been great or good enough to be so magnanimous. Truly the hand of Providence is manifest in the fact, that we have not a time-serving officeseeker for President in this fearful crisis! And is it not a singular circumstance, that Gen. Frémont should now be a candidate for the Presidency, in opposition to Mr. Lincoln, who canvassed the State of Illinois for Frémont in 1856? Alas, Frémont ingratitude!

Foreigners who espouse the side of the North are anxious that Mr. Lincoln should be re-elected. Peter Sinclair, Esq., of Scotland, who has labored for our cause

two years among the operatives of Lancashire, and whose labors, in the opinion of many, prevented the recognition of the Southern Confederacy, said recently, in a speech in Boston, "that the best thing we could do for our cause abroad was the re-election of Mr. Lincoln; that the greatest calamity which could befall the loyal States would be the failure to continue Mr. Lincoln in office: and he (Mr. Sinclair) was of the opinion, that the election of any other man would result in the recognition of the South, and war with the North; at any rate, it would stimulate our enemies anew, in France and England, to labor for this object."

Hon. George Thompson of England, now visiting this country, has repeatedly urged the re-election of Mr. Lincoln, in his addresses. At the late radical antislavery convention in Boston, he dealt heavy blows upon certain members for their attacks upon Mr. Lincoln; and, rising to speak the second time, he said,

"I felt that I should be false to my own convictions, and unjust towards the party who had been assailed, if I did not rise, and, as an Englishman and an abolitionist, give my testimony in favor of President Lincoln....

"We know, too, he has been the architect of his own fortunes; and that, by his industry, probity, high principles, and proverbial honesty, he has won his way to the confidence of the American people. We know, too, that he was elected President upon a platform, the ne plus ultra of the antislavery of which was the exclusion of slavery from the fifteen hundred thousand square miles of northwestern territory; yet, within two years from the time he went into the White House, he issued a proclamation giving liberty to more than three million of slaves. He has united this great republican nation in the bonds of diplomatic relationship with the hitherto scorned and outlawed negro republics of Hayti and Liberia; and I read in the papers of yesterday that the representative of one

of these States was introduced upon the floor of the Senate, and received the same attentions as are usually paid to the ministers of foreign countries. He has purged the national District from the reproach and pollution of slavery, and has thereby put the national brand upon the sin and crime of holding human beings in bondage. By formal message and resolution sent to the House of Representatives, and by personal interviews with the men from the Border States, he has done what he could to promote emancipation in the districts which his proclamation could not reach. Thus he has gone on from step to step, ever advancing, and never retreating, until a series of measures has been accomplished, such as the most sanguine amongst us never dreamed to see carried during the present generation. They have been measures so grand, so beneficent and all-important, that we who have contemplated them from the opposite side of the ocean have given God thanks on your behalf, and have rejoiced with you in the triumphs you have won. . . .

"When I look to the difficulties he has had to surmount, the warring elements by which he has been surrounded, the enemies within and without that have compassed his destruction, and to the comparative fewness of the numbers of those who have been prepared to sustain him in really radical measures, I cannot but regard him as the man for the situation."

Abraham Lincoln is the people's choice. He has won a large place in their affections. They know him as the honest man and faithful ruler. They honor him for what he is, and what he has done. Posterity will honor him as the model President, the champion of Freedom, and the EMANCIPATOR!

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