Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by . Johnson to lead him to over-throw his old associate of i860 and make the MilitaryGovernor of an insurgent State his fellow-candidate for1864. Hamlin was not in close sympathy with Lincoln;on the contrary, he was known as one who passivelyrather than actively strengthened a powerful cabal ofRepublican leaders in their aggressive hostility to Lin-coln and his general policy; but Lincoln was incapableof yielding to prejudice, however strong
Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by . Johnson to lead him to over-throw his old associate of i860 and make the MilitaryGovernor of an insurgent State his fellow-candidate for1864. Hamlin was not in close sympathy with Lincoln;on the contrary, he was known as one who passivelyrather than actively strengthened a powerful cabal ofRepublican leaders in their aggressive hostility to Lin-coln and his general policy; but Lincoln was incapableof yielding to prejudice, however strong, in planning hisgreat campaign for re-election in 1864. Had Hamlinbeen ten times more offensive than he was to Lincoln,it would not have halted Lincoln for a moment in favor-ing Hamlins renoinination if he believed it good politicsto do so. He rejected Hamlin not because he hated him;he accepted Johnson not because he loved him. He wasguided in what he did, or what he did not, in planningthe great campaign of his life, that he believed involvedthe destiny of the country itself, by the single purposeof making success as nearly certain as possible. 104. (rhoto by Brady, Washington.) HAXNIBAI, HAMLIN, 189O. LINCOLN AND HAMLIN. 105 Hamlin was nominated for the Vice-Presidency in i860simply because he was a representative Republican freshfrom the Democratic party. Another consideration thatfavored his selection was the fact that his State had beencarried into the Republican party under his leadership,and that its State election in September would be thefmger-board of success or defeat in the national position as Representative, Senator, and Governor,and his admitted ability and high character, fully justi-fied his nomination as the candidate for Vice-President;but when elected there was the usual steadily wideningchasm between him and the Executive, and, like nearlyor quite all Vice-Presidents, he drifted into the embraceof the opposition to his chief. It was this oppos
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