. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . Reproduced from If. F //ails engraving of a daguerreotype ty BrVice-President from 1825-32, and twice Secretary of War 46 Pcmsojis 3Iagazine Callioim. who declined in ISiS to visitOhio in a public way on the ground that hewas a candidate for President, later issueda letter which was at tirst taken as a with-drawal, but was tinally interpreted merelyas a refusal to permit the use of his namein the convention, while it left his friendsfree to support him as an independent can-didate. As a matter of fact, Calhoun dis-liked the convention system
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . Reproduced from If. F //ails engraving of a daguerreotype ty BrVice-President from 1825-32, and twice Secretary of War 46 Pcmsojis 3Iagazine Callioim. who declined in ISiS to visitOhio in a public way on the ground that hewas a candidate for President, later issueda letter which was at tirst taken as a with-drawal, but was tinally interpreted merelyas a refusal to permit the use of his namein the convention, while it left his friendsfree to support him as an independent can-didate. As a matter of fact, Calhoun dis-liked the convention system, and hoped to nominate Van Buren, supported LewisCass of Michigan, a man popular bothNorth and South. He declared for imme-diate annexation, and dwelt with specialforce upon the danger of British influencein Texas. Although amid all this political disturb-ance Van Buren suffered much uneasinessand passed through periods of depression,it began at length to look as if the Demo-. Reproductd from engraving of portrait by J. F. A. Heale
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