. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . e notaltogether reassuring. Seward, Sumner, Phillips, Garrison,Beecher, Theodore Parker, all spoke favorably of Lincoln,and Seward sent him word that the Republicans wouldnever take up so slippery a quantity as Douglas had provedhimself. But Greeley—the all-important Greeley—waslukewarm. The Republican standard is too high, hetold Herndon. We want something is
. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . e notaltogether reassuring. Seward, Sumner, Phillips, Garrison,Beecher, Theodore Parker, all spoke favorably of Lincoln,and Seward sent him word that the Republicans wouldnever take up so slippery a quantity as Douglas had provedhimself. But Greeley—the all-important Greeley—waslukewarm. The Republican standard is too high, hetold Herndon. We want something is a brave man. Forget the past and sustain therighteous. Good God, righteous, eh! groaned Hern-don in his letter to Lincoln. But though the encouragement which came to Lincolnfrom the East in the spring of 1858 was meagre, that whichcame from Illinois was abundant. There the Republicanssupported him in whole-hearted devotion. In June, theState convention, meeting in Springfield to nominate itscandidate for Senator, declared that Abraham Lincoln was itsfirst and only choice as the successor of Stephen A. press was jubilant. Unanimity is a weak word,wrote the editor of the Bloomington Pantagraph, to. THE LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS MEETING AT GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 7, 1858. The fifth debate between Lincoln and Douglas was held at Galesburg, Illinois, on October 71858. 1he platform from which they spoke was erected at the end of Knox College. The studentstook a lively interest in the contest, decorating the college gayly with flags and streamers. Im-mediately over the heads of the speakers, extending across the end of the building, was placeda large banner bearing the words: Knox College fob Lincoln. THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES 305 express the universal and intense feeling of the ! Lincoln!! LINCOLN!!! was the cry every-where, whenever the senatorship was alluded to. Delegatesfrom Chicago and from Cairo, from the Wabash and theIllinois, from the north
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