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14th. That the National Republican party is opposed to any change in our Naturalization laws, or any State legislation by which the rights of citizenship, hitherto accorded to immigrants from foreign lands, shall be abridged or impaired; and in favor of giving a full and efficient protection to the rights of all classes of citizens, whether native or naturalized, both at home and abroad.

15th. That appropriations by Congress for river and harbor improvements, of a national character, required for the accommodation and security of an existing commerce, are authorized by the Constitution and justified by an obligation of the Government to protect the lives and property of its citizens.

16th. That a railroad to the Pacific Ocean is imperatively demanded by the interests of the whole country; that the Federal Government ought to render immediate and efficient aid in its construction, and that as preliminary thereto, a daily overland mail should be promptly established.

17th. Finally, having thus set forth our distinctive principles and views, we invite the co-operation of all citizens, however differing on other questions, who substantially agree with us in their affirmance and support.

And so we have traced the career of the representative man, from his lowly origin and his early life as a splitter of rails and Mississippi flat-boatman, up to that proud moment when he received the formal announcement of his nomination to the position of President of the United States,

a position in some respects the proudest that a living being can occupy. Others are as powerful, but they are inherited or won by bloodshed and fraud. Alexander of Russia obtained his place by no merit of his own; Napoleon of France gained his by means that the world has agreed to pronounce disgraceful and unworthy; but the President of the American republic is chosen by the free and honest suffrages of his countrymen. If Abram Lincoln is des tined to be the next successor of Washington and Adams and Jefferson and Jackson, let us trust that he will always continue to deserve his cognomen of Honest Old Abe.

HANNIBAL HAMLIN,

THE LIFE OF HANNIBAL HAMLIN.

MR. LINCOLN represents the extreme West, Mr. Hamlin the furthest of the Eastern States. The latter was born in Paris, Oxford county, Maine, August 27, 1809, the same year which gave Lincoln to the world. He is by profession a lawyer, but has been constantly in public life for the last twenty-four years. In 1836, when only twentyseven years of age, he was elected a member of the State Legislature of Maine, and served in that capacity with so much ability as to be re-elected for four successive years. His comrades, as well as his constituents, must have appreciated him highly, for he was elected Speaker of the Legislative House of Representatives when he was twenty-eight, and retained the position during three annual sessions. From the State capitol to the National capitol was the natural advancement, and in 1843 Mr.

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