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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ues many thiDgsabove the Union; we put it first of all. He thinks aproclamation worth more than peace; we think theblood of our people more precious than the edicts ofthe President. . . We demand no conditions for therestoration of our Union. We are shackled with nohates, no prejudices, no passions. And so,— ashe imagined,— without prejudices, without hatred,and without passion, he went on denouncing hisGovernment and the majority of his fellow-citizenswith eloquent fury to the end of his speech. Hisaddress was greeted at its close with loud applause,not unmingled with calls on the part of the peacemen for Vallandigham. The latter did not respondat that moment, but the most weighty utterance ofthe Convention was his, nevertheless — the secondresolution of the platform, reported by the chair-man, James Guthrie of Kentucky. There had beenon the organization of the committee a contest be-tween Guthrie and Vallandigham for the chairman-ship. Through the artifices of Cassidy, Tilden,
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GENERAL OLIVER . HOWARD. THE CHICAGO SUEEENDEK 257 and other New York politicians, Mr. Guthrie ofKentucky received twelve votes to eight for Vallan-digham; but whatever managers may accomplish,the strongest man with the strongest force behindhim generally has his way, and when the committeegot to work Vallandigham carried too many guns forGuthrie. He wrote, to use his own words: Thematerial resolution of the Chicago platform, andcarried it through the sub-committee and the gen-eral committee in spite of the most desperate, per-sistent opposition on the part of Cassidy and hisfriends, Mr. Cassidy himself in an adjoining roomlaboring to defeat it. This Vallandigham resolution is the only one inthe platform worth quoting. All the rest was astring of mere commonplaces declaring devotion tothe Union, denouncing interference of the militaryin elections, enumerating the illegal and arbitraryacts of the Government, expressing the sympathyof the Convention with soldiers and sailors an

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