. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. HON. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY, 1860 Painted by Hicks; lithograph by L. Grozelier; published by W. Schaus, New York, 1860; printed by J. H. Bufford, Boston. THE WIGWAMConvention Hall, at Chicago, 1860, in which Lincoln was nominated THE Republicans of Chicago had erected a hugetemporary building for the use of the Wigwam, as it was called, covered a spaceof 600 feet by 180, and the height was between 50 and60 feet. The building would hold about 10,000 per-sons, and was divided into
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. HON. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY, 1860 Painted by Hicks; lithograph by L. Grozelier; published by W. Schaus, New York, 1860; printed by J. H. Bufford, Boston. THE WIGWAMConvention Hall, at Chicago, 1860, in which Lincoln was nominated THE Republicans of Chicago had erected a hugetemporary building for the use of the Wigwam, as it was called, covered a spaceof 600 feet by 180, and the height was between 50 and60 feet. The building would hold about 10,000 per-sons, and was divided into platform, ground-floor andgallery. The stage upon which the delegates and mem-bers of the press were seated, held about 1,800 per-sons; the ground-floor and galleries, about 8,000. Alarge gallery was reserved for ladies, which was filledevery day to overflowing. The Convention met onJune 16, 1860. 50 THE POETS LINCOLN 51 EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN is the authorof this poem, and it was published in the Pressand Tribune of Chicago, and in Weekly Illinois StateJournal, June 13, 1860. It was sung to the air of theStar Spangled Banner throughout the campaign. HONEST ABE OF THE WEST OHARK! from the pine-crested hills of old Maine,Where the splendor first
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