. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times. Some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration . State ticketin October. It was believed on all sides that unlessPennsylvania could be carried in October, Lincolns de-feat would be certain in November. Pennsylvania wasthus accepted as the key to Republican success, and Lin-coln naturally watched the struggle with intense accordance with his repeated solicitations, he was ad-vised from the headquarters of the State Committee, ofwhich I was chairman, of all the varied phases of thestruggle. It soon became evid
. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times. Some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration . State ticketin October. It was believed on all sides that unlessPennsylvania could be carried in October, Lincolns de-feat would be certain in November. Pennsylvania wasthus accepted as the key to Republican success, and Lin-coln naturally watched the struggle with intense accordance with his repeated solicitations, he was ad-vised from the headquarters of the State Committee, ofwhich I was chairman, of all the varied phases of thestruggle. It soon became evident from his inquiries andversatile suggestions that he took nothing for had to win the preliminary battle in October, and heleft nothing undone within his power to ascertain theexact situation and to understand every peril involvedin it. The Republican party in Pennsylvania, although thenbut freshly organized, had many different elements andbitter factional feuds within its own household, and allwho actively participated in party efforts were more orless involved in them. I did not entirely escape the bit-. (Photo by Brady, AVashington.) ABRAHAM LINCOLN, I^^SQ. A VISIT TO LINCOLN. 39 terness that was displayed in man}- quarters. Had Ibeen simply a private in the ranks, it would have beenof little consequence to Lincoln whether I was compe-tent to conduct so important a campaign or not; butwhen he was advised, not only from within the State,but from friends outside the State as well, that the partyorganization in Penns\l\-ania was not equal to the press-ing necessities of the occasion, he adopted his own cha-racteristic methods to satisfy himself on the subject. I had met David Davis and Leonard Swett for the firsttime at the Chicago Convention, and of course we knewlittle of each other personally. Some time toward mid-summer, when the campaign in Pennsylvania was wellunder way, Davis and Swett entered my headquarterstogether and handed me a letter from Lincoln, in w
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