Identifier: abrahamlinco2104nico (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : 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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erly applicable to all the AdministrationEepublicans. It called upon the citizens of theUnited States who mean to uphold the Union,who believe that the Rebellion can be suppressedwithout infringing the rights of individuals or ofStates, who regard the extinction of slavery asamong the practical effects of the war for theUnioD, and favor an amendment of the FederalConstitution for the exclusion of slavery, and whodemand integrity and economy in the administra-tion of Government. The signers of this call approached the questionfrom an entirely different point of view from thatof the radical Germans of St. Louis. In their viewMr. Lincoln, instead of being a craven and alaggard, was going entirely too fast and too far.Their favorite candidate was General Grant.Wendell Phillips, the stormy petrel of all ourpolitical disturbances, found enjoyment even inthis teapot tempest. He strongly approved theConvention at Cleveland, and constructed before-hand a brief platform for it. Subdue the South
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WENDELL PHILLIPS. THE CLEVELAND CONVENTION 33 as rapidly as possible. The moment territory-comes under our flag reconstruct States thus: con-fiscate and divide the lands of rebels; extend theright of suffrage broadly as possible to whites andblacks; let the Federal Constitution prohibit slav-ery throughout the Union, and forbid the States tomake any distinction among their citizens on ac-count of color or race. He also advised the nomi-nation for the Presidency, (of) a statesman and a Phillips to Stallo, patriot ; by which terms he intended to exclude WMr. Lincoln. The Convention might have met, deliberated, andadjourned for all the people of the United Statescared about it, had it not been for the violent andenthusiastic admiration it excited in Democraticnewspapers and the wide publicity they gave to itsproceedings. They described it as a gathering ofthe utmost dignity and importance; they pre-tended to discern in it a distinct line of cleavagethrough the middle of the Republican pa

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