. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ignant. When the question of annexa-tion began to be conspicuous, sev-eral competitors witli Yixn Burcnappeared. Richard Malcolm Jolui-son, who was taken seriously by the Democrats of Kentucky, butwas elsewhere recognized as con-siderably less than a first-rate man,lioped that he might be nominatedfor President, but was willing, ifneed be, to take the second )) a speech made during a North-ern tour as far as Boston in ,he intimated that he alone coulddefeat Clay. Johnson had the sup-port not only of Kentucky, but ofthe anti-Bento
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ignant. When the question of annexa-tion began to be conspicuous, sev-eral competitors witli Yixn Burcnappeared. Richard Malcolm Jolui-son, who was taken seriously by the Democrats of Kentucky, butwas elsewhere recognized as con-siderably less than a first-rate man,lioped that he might be nominatedfor President, but was willing, ifneed be, to take the second )) a speech made during a North-ern tour as far as Boston in ,he intimated that he alone coulddefeat Clay. Johnson had the sup-port not only of Kentucky, but ofthe anti-Benton faction of the Mis-souri Democrats. It is significantof the far-reaching nature of in-fluences in American politics thatthe opponents of Van Buren shouldhave been the opponents also ofBenton. The latter eventuallybroke with his party over the slav-ery question; his son-in-law Fre-mont was afterward the Republicanpartys first candidate for Presi-dent, while Van Buren was the firstcandidate of the Free Soil party,forerunner of the Republican Reproduced from If. F //ails engraving of a daguerreotype ty BrVice-President from 1825-32, and twice Secretary of War 46 Pcmsojis 3Iagazine Callioim. who declined in ISiS to visitOhio in a public way on the ground that hewas a candidate for President, later issueda letter which was at tirst taken as a with-drawal, but was tinally interpreted merelyas a refusal to permit the use of his namein the convention, while it left his friendsfree to support him as an independent can-didate. As a matter of fact, Calhoun dis-liked the convention system, and hoped to nominate Van Buren, supported LewisCass of Michigan, a man popular bothNorth and South. He declared for imme-diate annexation, and dwelt with specialforce upon the danger of British influencein Texas. Although amid all this political disturb-ance Van Buren suffered much uneasinessand passed through periods of depression,it began at length to look as if the Demo-
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