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Title: How Abraham Lincoln became president
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Davis, J. McCan (John McCan), 1866-1916
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : Illinois Company
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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ssouri. On February 9, i860,Lincoln wrote Norman B. Judd a letter, in which he said: I am not in a position where it would hurt much for me notto be nominated on the national ticket, but I am where it wouldhurt some for me not to get the Illinois delegates. What Iexpected when I wrote the letter to Messrs. Dole and others is nowhappening. Your discomfited assailants are most bitter againstme, and they will, for revenge upon me, lay to the Bates egg inthe South, and to the Seward egg in the North, and go far towardsqueezing me out in the middle with nothing. Can you not helpme a little in this matter in your end of the vineyard? Lincoln looked forward to the State convention with many misgivings. The convention was to be held at Decatur May 9. The Seward eggs promised to hatch an unpleasantly large brood of delegates. But some things were happening of which even Lincoln was not advised — things not very big in themselves, but destined to be tremendously important in ultimate results.
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GOV. RICHARD J. OGLESBY. (From a painting in the Governors Office, State House, Springfield, 111.) It was Dick Oglesby, then a Decatur lawyer, who planned anddirected the rail episode in the State convention in i860, which stampededthe convention for Lincoln. CHAPTER XIII. STORY OF A FENCE RAIL — HOW DICK OGLESBY ANDJOHN HANKS STAMPEDED THE STATE CONVENTION. There lived in Decatur in i860 a brilliant young law-yer and politician of the name of Richard J. Oglesby. Dick Oglesby had made the acquaintance of Lincolnwhen a mere boy; he had been an ardent admirer of Lin-coln for twenty years; he believed in Lincoln and wasfor him for President with all that vehement, rugged en-thusiasm that distinguished the Oglesby of after years. Dick Oglesby was astute, far-seeing; he hadimagination, and Lincolns magnificent possibilities as apopular candidate for President loomed large in his mind.He was acquainted with Lincolns early life, his lowlyorigin, his rise from poverty. He knew that out on t

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