Abraham Lincoln's political career through 1860 . From the Lincoln Naiioyml Life Foundation This eagle torch (recently acquired by the Lincoln Li-brary-Museum) is believed to have been used in the 1S60Presidential campaign by the Republican Wide torch burned a low grade of coal oil and was sup-ported on a pole by loops under each wing, with wickopenings on top of each wing. The wick openings onthis torch have been converted from single burners todouble burners. Examples of this type of torch arefound in the Detroit Historical Society and in the DeWitt Collection of Hartford,
Abraham Lincoln's political career through 1860 . From the Lincoln Naiioyml Life Foundation This eagle torch (recently acquired by the Lincoln Li-brary-Museum) is believed to have been used in the 1S60Presidential campaign by the Republican Wide torch burned a low grade of coal oil and was sup-ported on a pole by loops under each wing, with wickopenings on top of each wing. The wick openings onthis torch have been converted from single burners todouble burners. Examples of this type of torch arefound in the Detroit Historical Society and in the DeWitt Collection of Hartford, Conn. See Politi-cal Campaign Torches by Herbert R. Collins, Museum ofHistory and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Wash-ington, LINCOLN LORE. From the Lincoln National Life Foundation Obverse and reverse of bronze medal commemorating theorganization of the Hartford Wide Awakes on March3, 1860. City on the evening of October 3, 1860 was reported inHarpers Weekly on October 13th: Thousands (estimated at 20,000) of torches flashingin high, narrow streets, crowded with eager people, andupon house-fronts in which every window swarms withhuman faces; with the mingling music of scores of mili-tary bands, and the rippling, running, sweeping, andsurging sound of huzzas from tens of thousands, butgenerally a silence like the quiet flow of a vast river;with the waving of banners and moving transparenciesof endless device; and through all, out of all, and overall, the splendor of exploding fire-works, of every color—these combined, at night, are an imposing spectacle; andthese everyone in the city saw at the Wide-Awake festi-val on Wednesday night. It was certainly the nearest approach to a purely poetic popular demonstration that we
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