LINCOLN IN 1860. I T was the unexpected that happened in Chicago on that fateful 18th of l1ay, 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was nominated for President of the United States. It was who11y nnexpected by the friends of Seward; it was hoped for, but not confidently expected, by the friends of Lincoln. The convention was the ablest asscmbly of the kind ever called together in this country. ·It was the first national deliberative body of the Republican party that ""vas to attaiu such illustrious achievements ill the history of free governmellt. The first llational cOllvention of that party, held in Philadelphia in 1856, was composed of a loose aggregation of political free-thinkers, embracing mallY 11s11ally denominated as (( cranks." The party was without organization or cohesion; its delegates were self-appointed and responsible to no regular constituency. It was the sudden eruption of the intense resentment of the people of the North against the encroachments of slav
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CONTENTS; LIXCOLN" IN r86o--Ilis First ~ominatioll for President at Chica~oHow; Seward was Ol'erthrown-Curtin [lild Lane Defeated him :lnl!; Aominakd Lincoln-The October States dccided it-Seward's :'omination; would have Defeated Curtin in Pe:nnsylvanh and Lane: in Indi·; ana at the October Elections-The School Question made Seward Unavailable-; The Bitterness of Seward's Friends after his Defeat •; A VISIT TO LINCOL~-First ImIJressions of the New PresidcntUngraceful; in Dress and l1anner-His Homely Vays soon Forgotten; in Con~'ersation-Lincoln's lridnight Journe:y-The Harrisuurg J)inn~r; to Lincoln by Governor Curtin-Discussion of a Ch;lOgc of RouteDecided; against Lincoln's Protest-Colonel Scott's Dire:ction of J ,in; coin's Departure-A :'ight of Painful Anxiety-The Che:ering :1e:ss:tge; of Lincoln'~ , ni'al in Vashington received,
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CONTENTS; LIXCOLN" IN r86o--Ilis First ~ominatioll for President at Chica~oHow; Seward was Ol'erthrown-Curtin [lild Lane Defeated him :lnl!; Aominakd Lincoln-The October States dccided it-Seward's :'omination; would have Defeated Curtin in Pe:nnsylvanh and Lane: in Indi·; ana at the October Elections-The School Question made Seward Unavailable-; The Bitterness of Seward's Friends after his Defeat •; A VISIT TO LINCOL~-First ImIJressions of the New PresidcntUngraceful; in Dress and l1anner-His Homely Vays soon Forgotten; in Con~'ersation-Lincoln's lridnight Journe:y-The Harrisuurg J)inn~r; to Lincoln by Governor Curtin-Discussion of a Ch;lOgc of RouteDecided; against Lincoln's Protest-Colonel Scott's Dire:ction of J ,in; coin's Departure-A :'ight of Painful Anxiety-The Che:ering :1e:ss:tge; of Lincoln'~ , ni'al in Vashington received,
