Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . the insigni-ficance of the position,referred to it as a sine-cure, which, accord-ing to Webster, is anoffice or position ofvalue which involveslittle or no responsi-bility or service. Oneauthority refers to theholder of the title as, Asecond-rate man agree-able to the wire pullers,always smuggled in. Occasionally, duringthe past few years, theadvancement of theVice-President to thePresidency throughconstitutional proce-dure has occurred. Thishas had a tendency tomake the office seemmore desirable thanheretofore. The recentappointment to theVice-Pr
Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . the insigni-ficance of the position,referred to it as a sine-cure, which, accord-ing to Webster, is anoffice or position ofvalue which involveslittle or no responsi-bility or service. Oneauthority refers to theholder of the title as, Asecond-rate man agree-able to the wire pullers,always smuggled in. Occasionally, duringthe past few years, theadvancement of theVice-President to thePresidency throughconstitutional proce-dure has occurred. Thishas had a tendency tomake the office seemmore desirable thanheretofore. The recentappointment to theVice-Presidency of awell known statesmanof recognized ability, amember of one ofAmericas first fam-ilies, may suggest arevision of the publicopinion about thestatus of the formerlyunwanted office. Cer-tainly it will be more in-viting to the politicalaspirants. Before this newappraisal of the seat isaccepted, it is impor-tant that it should be re-viewed in retrospect toappreciate more fullyhow Abraham Lin-coln, fortunately, es-caped the ordeal of the. iiEHAHAM rJCKCOLW. — LINCOLN LORE Vice-Presidency. The earliest threat was at the first NationalRepublican Convention in Philadelphia in 1856 and onceagain at the convocation in the Chicago Wigwam in 1860. Abraham Lincolns political rebirth occurred about fiveyears after he had served a term in Congress. His return to thepolitical forum is recorded in a third-person autobiographicalsketch: In 1854, his profession had almost superseded thethought of politics in his mind, when the repeal of the Mis-souri compromise aroused him as he had never been as the repeal was passed by the Senate on March 5,1854, and subsequently signed by the President, it was calledthe birthday of the newly organized Republican party. Theofficial birthday was later established as July 6, 1854. An observers account of Lincolns return to the politicalscene is recorded by Richard Yates, at what is known as TheSpringfield Jubilee, celebrating the Repub
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