. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. the first pioneer of Macon County, A storm of applause greeted the banner, followed by criesof Lincoln! Lincoln! Rising, Lincoln said pointing tothe banner, I suppose I am expected to reply to that. I can-not say whether I made those rails or not, but I am quitesure I have made a great many just as good. The speechwas warmly applauded, and one delegate, an influential Ger-man and an ardent Seward man, George Schneider, after wit-nessing the demonstration, turne
. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. the first pioneer of Macon County, A storm of applause greeted the banner, followed by criesof Lincoln! Lincoln! Rising, Lincoln said pointing tothe banner, I suppose I am expected to reply to that. I can-not say whether I made those rails or not, but I am quitesure I have made a great many just as good. The speechwas warmly applauded, and one delegate, an influential Ger-man and an ardent Seward man, George Schneider, after wit-nessing the demonstration, turned to his neighbor and said, Seward has lost the Illinois delegation. He was right;for when, later, John M. Palmer brought forth a resolutionthat Abraham Lincoln is the choice of the Republican partyof Illinois for the presidency, and the delegates from thisState are instructed to use all honorable means to secure hisnomination by the Chicago Convention, and to vote as aunit for him, it was enthusiastically adopted. While the politicians of Illinois were thus preparing forthe campaign, the Republicans of the East hardly realized. LINCOLN IN THE SUMMER OF 1860, NOMINATION IN iS6o 341 that Lincoln was or could be made a possibility. In the firstfour months of i860 his name was almost unmentioned as apresidential candidate in the public prints of the East. Ina list of twenty-one prominent candidates for the presi-dency in i860, prepared by D. W. Bartlett and publishedin New York towards the end of 1859, Lincolns name isnot mentioned; nor does it appear in a list of thirty-four of our living representative men, prepared for presidentialpurposes by John Savage, and published in Philadelphia ini860. The most important notice at this period of which weknow was a casual mention in an editorial in the New YorkEvening Post, February 15. The Post consideredit time for the Republicans to speak out about the nomineeat the coming convention, and remarked: With such menas Seward and Chase, Ban
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