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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
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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The First Dark Horse How Polk defeated Van Buren in the Democratic National Conventionof 18-^-^y and some consequences of that defeat By EDWARD N. VALLANDIGHAM The Democratic National Convention of1844 was the first to nominate for thePresidency, a candidate usually spoken ofin the figurative language so characteristicof our politics as a dark horse. It wasalso the convention to revive and perma-nently to establish the rule requiring a two-thirds majority for nominations, the firstalso to make the extension of slavery thechief campaign issue, and the first to bedistinguished by those gusts of passion,that emotional turbulence, those sudden,uncontrollable impulses which have sinceso often characterized these vast gather-ings. This was but the fourth national conven-tion in the history of the party. After thebreakdo^vn in 1824 of the old method ofnominating candidates by the Caucus ofCongress, such nominations were made inthe next campaign by the caucuses of theState Legislatures, and b

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