. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. NOMINATION IN iS6o 349 form for the use of the chairman of the convention was do-nated by Michigan, as the first chair made in that was an arm-chair of the most primitive description, theseat dug out of an immense log and mounted on large rock-ers. Another chair, one made for the occasion, attracted agreat deal of attention. It was constructed of thirty-fourkinds of wood, each piece from a different State or Terri-tory, Kansas being appropriately repre
. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. NOMINATION IN iS6o 349 form for the use of the chairman of the convention was do-nated by Michigan, as the first chair made in that was an arm-chair of the most primitive description, theseat dug out of an immense log and mounted on large rock-ers. Another chair, one made for the occasion, attracted agreat deal of attention. It was constructed of thirty-fourkinds of wood, each piece from a different State or Terri-tory, Kansas being appropriately represented by the weep-ing willow a symbol of her grief at being still excludedfrom the sisterhood of States. The gavel used by the chair-man was more interesting even than his chair, having beenmade from a fragment of Commodore Perrys brave Laiv-rcncc. Into the Wigwam, on the morning of the i6th of May,there crowded fully ten thousand persons. To the spectatorin the gallery the scene was vividly picturesque and him were packed hundreds of women, gay in thehigh-peaked, flower-filled bonnets and the bright shawls andp
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