Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — Lincoln’s Nomination Over Seward. [ARTICLE]

Lincoln’s Nomination Over Seward.

It is one of the contradictions not infrequently exhibited in the movement of partisan bodies, that Mr. Seward was defeated because of his radical expressions on the slavery question, while Mr. Lincoln wag chosen in spite of expressions far mere radical than those of Mr. Seward. The “irrepressible conflict" announced by Mr. Seward, at Rochester, did not go so far as Mr. Lincoln’s declaration, at Springfield, that “the union could not exist half slave, half free." Neither Mr. Seward nor Mr. Lincoln contemplated the destruction of the Government, and yot thousands had been mado to believe that Mr. Seward made the existence of the Union depend on the abolition of slavery. Mr. Lincoln had announced the same doctrine in advance of Mr. Seward, with ft directness and blunt-

ness which could not be found in the more polished phrase of the New York Senator. Despite these facts, a large number of delegates from doubtful States—delegates who held the control of the convention— supported Mr. Lincoln, on the distinct ground that the anti-slavery sentiment which they represented was not sufficiently radical to support the author of the speech in which had been proclaimed the doctrine of an “irrepressible conflict” between freedom and slavery.— Blaine’s Twenty Years in Congress.