Identifier: abrahamlincolnhi01nico (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln; a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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e decline. But therewere circumstances connected with this his lastcandidacy which excited his faithful followers to apeculiar intensity of devotion. He had been, asmany thought, unjustly passed over in 1840, andGeneral Harrison, a man of greatly inferior capacity,had been preferred to him on the grounds of pru-dence and expediency, after three days of ballotinghad shown that the eloquent Kentuckian had morefriends and more enemies than any other man inthe republic. He had seemed to regain all his popu-larity by the prompt and frank support which hegave to the candidacy of Harrison; and after thePresidents death and the treachery of Tyler hadturned the victory of the Whigs into dust and ashes,the entire party came back to Clay with passionateaffection and confidence, to lead them in the des-perate battle which perhaps no man could havewon. The Whigs, however, were far from appreciat-ing this. There is evident in all their utterances ofthe spring and early summer of 1844, an ardent and
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BRIG.-GEN. JAMES SHIELDS. : V THE CAMPAIGN OF 1844 225 almost furious conviction, not only of the necessity chap.xiilbut the certainty of success. Mr. Clay was nomi-nated long before the convention met in Baltimore.The convention of the 1st of May only ratified thepopular will; no other name was mentioned. Mr.Watkins Leigh had the honor of presenting hisname, a word, he said that expressed moreenthusiasm, that had in it more eloquence, thanthe names of Chatham, Burke, Patrick Henry,and, he continued, rising to the requirements ofthe occasion, to us more than any other and allother names together. Nothing was left to besaid, and Clay was nominated without a ballot;Mr. Lumpkin, of Georgia, then nominated Theo-dore Frelinghuysen for Vice-President, not hes-itating to avow, in the warmth and expansionof the hour, that he believed that the baptismalname of the New Jersey gentleman had a mysticalappropriateness to the occasion. In the Democratic convention Mr. Van Burenhad a majority of del

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