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colleciion-ol bIazonry upon musty records.
They have been spoken in the thunders Of
victorious battle-lhey have been written
upon the hacked and broken armor OF our
country's invaders. His life has been one
of unfatering answering devotion to frse-
dom and to the people. The people "love
him because he first loved them. His
popularity rests on no calculation Of polili-
cal chances. 1t is not seated in the arith-
metic but in the deep and ardent affections
of his covntry.


1t Is not intrigners, nor president ma.
kers, nor. the starched, brainless aristo-
Gratis of your villages that rally around him.
Not is the enlightened, liberal laboring
people whom he has served. Ii is the me.
chanics--the bold and hardy syeomanry,
who are their couniry's pride in peace, its
bulwark in war--men of the ploughshare
and the pruning knife, who amid the late
"panic" which spread dismay and con-
sterna'ion from one end Of the Union to the
other, stood firm as the scaled hills--still
painting their crops, and hailing the storm
and the calm as equally commissioned to
bless them. Men, sir, who were depen.
dent for the banking facilities, who drew
upon no heartless corporation, but upon
the God that made them, and they we're
answered in the sunshine and the shower.
Their hocks sported in beauty and in glad.
ness through their smiling felds--th their
haryests were ripened, their grainaries
filed. To these they look fol nurture--for
Protection tothe brooding wings Of the Al.
mighty and under His shadow, and
amid the household idles that blessed their
domestic hearths, in the proud and unsul-
lied nobility of their nature, they vowed
eternal hostility to every kind of tyrany
that can opress the mind ofman."


These are the men, Mr.. President, thai
have demanded and will sustain the nom.
ination Of the distinguished parsonage t.
whose character and patriotic daring hav,
referred. His fame, like that Of our ven
cradle Chief Magistrate, spreads every
where--alike in the wilderness and in tht
"ci,y full" penetrating into the valleys
climbing the the hill tops, and reaching ir
its kindling, anmating influences, every
log cabin beyond the mountains. Hi.
briIian, and successful struggles agains
The foul, adulterous Union OF church ant
state, have consecra'ed his name to immor
tality. The emancipated debtor, as he
leaps from his prison and pallet of straw
shouts forth their praises, and the soldier
of the revolution, as he totters into hi:
grave, teaches his children to love anc
venerale his name. There is voice
from the great valley Of the west, from all
her cities and cottages; there is voice
from the east, from the north and south ;
there is a voice from the fields of the hus.
bandm N, from the workshops of the me-
chanis, from the primary assemblies of
the people, from the inventions of neigh.
borhoods and of States, calling aloud for
the elevation of this war-worn soldier, this
tried and incorrup ptable patriot, this advo.
cate Of thr destitute AMI the down,trodden,
this friend to freedom and to man. Such
sir. is Richard M.Johnsnn of Kentucky.