. Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits. theirpower, in a treacherous and underhand way, tosecure the election of a Republican President,that they might have this fancied excuse fortheir revolt. Future ages will scarcely creditthese assertions; but no intelligent man at thepresent time will deny them. In the spring of 1860 the Democratic partyheld its National Convention in Charleston, S. C,to nominate its candidate for the proslav
. Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits. theirpower, in a treacherous and underhand way, tosecure the election of a Republican President,that they might have this fancied excuse fortheir revolt. Future ages will scarcely creditthese assertions; but no intelligent man at thepresent time will deny them. In the spring of 1860 the Democratic partyheld its National Convention in Charleston, S. C,to nominate its candidate for the proslavery men bolted, that they might breakup the party, and thus secure the election of aRepublican candidate. They succeeded. Theregular Democratic Convention nominated Steph-en A. Douglas. The secession party organizedwhat they called a Constitutional Convention, andnominated John C. Breckenridge, one of the mostradical of the proslavery men. A NationalUnion Convention met, and nominated JohnBell. This division rendered it almost certainthat the Republican nominee, whoever he mightbe, would be elected. The secessionists werejovial, and pressed on in the preparation for de-cisive ABRAHAM LINCOLN 73 The great Republican Convention met at Chi-cago on the 16th of June, 1860. The delegatesand strangers who crowded the city amountedto twenty-tive thousand. An immense building,called The Wigwani/ was reared to accommo-date the Convention. There were eleven candi-dates for whom votes were thrown. WilliamH. Seward, a man whose fame as a statesmanhad long filled the land, w^as the most was generally supposed that he w^ould be thenominee. On the first ballot ]\Ir. Seward re-ceived one hundred and seventy-three and a halfvotes, and Abraham Lincoln one hundred andtwo. Nearly all the votes were now concen-trated upon these two candidates. Upon the sec-ond ballot ]Mr. Seward received one hundredand eighty-four and a half votes, and i\Ir. Lin-coln one hundred and eighty-one.
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