. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. m the ground level, with committee-rooms at eachend. This vast structure of pine boards had been rescuedfrom ugliness through the energetic efforts of the commit-tee, assisted by the Republican women of the city, who,scarcely less interested than their husbands and brothers,strove in every way to contribute to the success of the con-vention. They wreathed the pillars and the galleries withmasses of green; hungbanners and flags;brought in busts of Amer-ican nota


. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. m the ground level, with committee-rooms at eachend. This vast structure of pine boards had been rescuedfrom ugliness through the energetic efforts of the commit-tee, assisted by the Republican women of the city, who,scarcely less interested than their husbands and brothers,strove in every way to contribute to the success of the con-vention. They wreathed the pillars and the galleries withmasses of green; hungbanners and flags;brought in busts of Amer-ican notables; orderedgreat allegorical paintingsof Justice, Liberty, andthe like, to suspend on thewalls; borrowed thewhole series of Healy por-traits of American states-men—in short, made theCHAIR oconpiED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF Wlgwam at Icast gay andtZ ofTm°^ national conv^n- j^g^j^g .^ ^gpg^^ ForeignIt was the first chair made in the state of interest added Something Michigan.—Reproduced from Harpers ^q ^|-|g fumishiugS; theWeekly of May 19, I860, by permission , . , , , , . of Messrs. Harper and Brothers. chair plaCCd OU the plat-.


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