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Title: From pioneer home to the White House : life of Abraham Lincoln: boyhood, youth, manhood, assassination, death
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898 Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Boston : J.H. Earle
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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mere political expediency.You have become, by the controversy with Mr.Douglas, one of our leaders in this great strugglewith slavery, which is undoubtedly the struggle ofthe nation and the age. What I would like to. sayis this, and I say it with a full heart, Be true to yourprinciples and we will be true to you, and God willbe true to us all! His homely face lighted upinstantly with a beaming expression, and taking myhand warmly in both of his, he said : • I say Amento that — Amen to that! The National Republican Convention assembled inChicago on the sixteenth day of June, i860. Amammoth Wigwam was erected to accommodate thedelegates and crowd of spectators It was estimatedthat twenty-five thousand men attended that conven-tion. Fifteen hundred of them slept under the roofof a single hotel. The candidates for President were William H. Sew-ard, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, Judge McLean,Willliam L. Dayton, Simon Cameron, Abraham Lin-coln and Benjamin F. Wade. It must be conceded,
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Residence of Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Ill„ GOING UP HIGHER. 321 however, that Mr. Seward was by far the most promi-nent, and his nomination was generally expected byRepublicans in the East, if not in the West. Indeed,Mr. Lincoln was not known to the rank and file of theRepublican party, outside of the western States. Mr.Chase and Judge Bates were better known to thepeople of the whole country than he. But the ballot-ing proved that Mr. Seward was not so strong acandidate as many anticipated. Mr. Chase had forty-nine votes, and Judge Bates forty-eight, in the infor-mal ballot, while Mr. Lincoln had one hundred andtwo. It was evident that Mr. Seward could not benominated. There were not a sufficient numberto leave their favorite candidates for him, to securehis nomination. But as the result proved, there wereenough who would leave the men of their choice andvote for Mr. Lincoln, to elect him. To them Mr. Lin-coln was a compromise candidate, whom they preferred,if they could not h

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