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. . . . After Mr. Baker sat down, Mr. Lincoln was again called upon.2Open page He took up the three prominent principles of the Whig Party---The Tariff, a sound and uniform National Currency and the Distribution of the proceeds of the Public Lands. All these he illustrated so plainly and so forcibly, as to show that he not only
understood these principles thoroughly himself and their beneficial bearing on the American people, but that he also possessed a most happy faculty of vindicating them and of urging their adoption before an audience in such a manner as to convince all present of their necessity.3Open page