How Abraham Lincoln became president . d no one was moresurprised than Mr. Lincoln himself when the news cameto Illinois that he had received no votes for Vice-President on the ticket that was to be headed by John Lincoln was attending court at Urbana, andwhen a friend read to him from a Chicago newspaper theannouncement of the ballot for Vice-President he saidindifferently: I do not suppose the Lincoln referred tois myself. Then he added, half facetiously: There isanother great man of the name of Lincoln in Massa-chusetts. Lincoln was intensely active in the campaign of is
How Abraham Lincoln became president . d no one was moresurprised than Mr. Lincoln himself when the news cameto Illinois that he had received no votes for Vice-President on the ticket that was to be headed by John Lincoln was attending court at Urbana, andwhen a friend read to him from a Chicago newspaper theannouncement of the ballot for Vice-President he saidindifferently: I do not suppose the Lincoln referred tois myself. Then he added, half facetiously: There isanother great man of the name of Lincoln in Massa-chusetts. Lincoln was intensely active in the campaign of is said that he made more than fifty speeches during thesummer and autumn. The speeches were not of the short,flippant, catchy variety so common in latter-day politics,delivered at the rate of three or four or a dozen a day, asin modern times. Three or four speeches a week was therule, and the audiences often were composed largelyof men who had traveled twenty miles or farther by 35 y( orfnu&brg \jfttC(4M */!&. 4L&oG^ <£L. ELECTION RETURN WRITTEN BY LINCOLN. This was Mr. Lincolns first official document. While a resident of NewSalem he frequently was clerk of election. How Abraham Lincoln Became President. 37 wagon or on horseback over prairie roads. The speecheswere long, but the people heard them through with eager-ness. It was no uncommon thing in that day for an audi-ence at a political meeting to be held by a public speakerspellbound for three or four hours at a time. As Lincolnwent about the State talking against the Kansas-NebraskaBill and squatter sovereignty he added vastly to hisreputation as a public speaker and he rapidly became therecognized leader of the Republican party in Illinois. The new Republican party lost the State of Illinois inthe national election of 1856, for the reason that the con-servatives, including many Old Line Whigs, refused tosupport Fremont and voted for Fillmore; but on theState ticket the new party had been united and it electedits candida
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