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Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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) NOMINATED FOR THE PRESIDENCY. 203 Douglass friends nominated him for the Presidency, with Herschel V.Johnson, of Georgia, for Yice-president. The delegates from the cot-ton-producing Statesnominated John C.Breckinridge, ofKentucky, for Presi-dent and JosephLane, of Oregon, forVice-president. I remained in thevicinity of Spring-field several weeks.Every train broughtpeople to that cityto see Mr. Lincoln.Politicians whowanted to be Sec-retary of War, orof the Navy; whowanted to be madeMinister Plenipoten-tiary or Consul insome foreign coun-try, position in a custom-house, surveyor of lands, Governor or Secre-tary of a Territory, postmaster somewhere—all thinking to take time bythe forelock by making the acquaintance of Mr. Lincoln in advance ofhis election. So many came that the Governor of the State kindlyallowed him the use of the executive chamber in the State-house, wherehe courteously welcomed all those who wanted office, as well as thosewho only wished to shake hands with him.
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THE STATE-HOUSE, SPRINGFIELD, ILL., 1860. (The executive chamber was the coruer room of the upper story in linewith the cupola.) NOTES TO CHAPTER XI. () Century Magazine, September, 1887. () Letter to N. B. Jtidd, December 9, 1859, quoted iu Century Magazine, Septem-ber, 1887. (^) I.N Arnold, Life of Abraham Lincoln, \). 163.(^) J. G. Holland, Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 233.(=-) Ibid., p. 235. 204 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. CHAPTEK XII. THE ELECTION, 1860. ^r^HE campaign was one of intense excitement and unbounded enthu-^ siasm on the part of the Republicans, who felt that with the Dem-ocratic Party divided they could bring about the election of Mr. Lin-coln. Mass meetings were held throughout the Northern States. I860 The vital questions of the hour were the aggressions of the slavepower, the attempt to force slavery into the Territories and the FreeStates, the Dred Scott decision, and the preservation of the Union.The young men organized Wide Awake clubs. They wore uniformsand carrie

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