The heroic life of Abraham Lincoln the great emancipator Illustrated in black and white and with colored plates . OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY The trend of public events and public feeling had for some time shownthat the Whig party was dying out and though Lincoln was still reckoned aWhig he only waited for a competent successor. He hesitated to throw him-self into the ranks of the Free Soil party, but at length he took his stand as thechampion for the abolition of slavery until in his own words, The sun shallshine, the rain shall fall, and the wind shall blow upon no man who goes forthto unrequite
The heroic life of Abraham Lincoln the great emancipator Illustrated in black and white and with colored plates . OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY The trend of public events and public feeling had for some time shownthat the Whig party was dying out and though Lincoln was still reckoned aWhig he only waited for a competent successor. He hesitated to throw him-self into the ranks of the Free Soil party, but at length he took his stand as thechampion for the abolition of slavery until in his own words, The sun shallshine, the rain shall fall, and the wind shall blow upon no man who goes forthto unrequited toil. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 21 But the long-looked-for came at last. A mass meeting was held at Eloom-ington, 111., May 29, 1856, but they could not unite on any platform except hos-tility to slavery. In this extremity Lincoln was sent for. He at once said, Letus, in building our new party, make our corner-stone the Declaration of Inde-pendence. Let us build on this rock and the gates of hell shall not prevailagainst us. This simple but sufficient platform was approved by all presentand embodied in a Lincoln Telling a Story The Republican party was born. Lincolns speech thrilled and kindledthe convention. One who was present said that never was an audience morecompletely electrified by human eloquence. The first Republican National Convention was held at Philadelphia, June17, 1856. John Charles Fremont, of California, was-nominated for President,and William L. Dayton for Vice-President. Lincoln was proposed by the Illi-nois delegates, and he received iio votes against Daytons twenty-five. When 22 THE HEROIC LH^^E OF Lincoln heard of the votes cast for him he said, That is probably the distin-guished Mr. Lincoln, of Massachusetts. He had no idea of how his fame wasspreading. In the Democratic Convention, Stephen A. Douglas was beaten byBuchanan. In the election, Buchanan, as Lincoln predicted, was the peopleschoice with 174 electoral votes from fourteen slave States and
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