Identifier: howabrahamlincol02davi (find matches)
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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John with the rails. Lincoln was there in a corner,trying to escape observation. How are you, Abe ? said John, familiarly, as hepassed. How are you, John? Lincoln answered with equalfamiliarity. Then the convention cheered and cheered. Therewere loud and persistent calls for a speech from Lincoln.Abe had not known that the rails were to be brought in.He hardly knew what to say about them. Gentlemen, he finally said, John and I did makesome rails down there; and if these arent the identicalrails we made, they certainly look very much like them. From that time forward the rail was ever presentin the campaign. There was a great demand for Lin-coln rails. John Hanks sold the two that he broughtinto the convention. A man from Kentucky gave himfive dollars for one. The next day he went out and gota wagon-load, and put them in my barn. He sold themfor a dollar apiece. Then other people went into thebusiness, and the supply seemed inexhaustible. By this time, says Lamon, one of Lincolns biog-
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GENERAL JOHN M. PALMER. Who introduced and eloquently advocated the resolution in the DecaturConvention, May 10, i860, instructing the Illinois delegation for Lincoln.General Palmer presided over the first Republican State Convention in Illi-nois, held at Bloomington, May 29, 1856. How Abraham Lincoln Became President. 71 raphers, writing of the rail episode in the Decatur con-vention, the innocent Egyptians began to open theireyes — they saw plainly enough now the admirablepresidential scheme unfolded to their view. The Seward boom was dead. Dick Oglesby andold John Hanks and two fence rails had killed it. JohnM. Palmer was at once on his feet with a resolutiondeclaring that Abraham Lincoln is the first choice ofthe Republican party of Illinois for the presidency, andinstructing the delegates to the Chicago convention touse all honorable means to secure his nomination and tocast the vote of the State as a unit for him. Thomas J. Turner, of Freeport, who had served inCongress with L

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