Identifier: lifeofabrahamli2905moor (find matches)
Title: The life of Abraham Lincoln for boys and girls
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Moores, Charles W. (Charles Washington), 1862-1923
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents
Publisher: Boston New York (etc.) : Houghton Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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ty like all other. To this the Doug-las delegates refused to agree. Delegates from twelveof the slave States left the convention and later nomi-nated John C. Breckenridge for President. What wasleft of the convention adjourned until June, and thennominated Stephen A. Douglas. From this time untilthe election, the Democratic party remained divided,the Southern Democrats supporting Breckenridge andmost of the Northern Democrats remaining loyal toDouglas. The week before the Republican National Conven-tion at Chicago, the Illinois Republicans held their Stateconvention at Decatur. Lincohi was sitting on theplatform when a delegate announced that an old De-mocrat of Macon County wanted to make a contribu-tion. Just at this moment John Hanks came into thehall bearing two old-time fence-rails decorated withflags and a streamer, on which was printed: — ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Rail Candidate for President in 1860. Two rails from a lot of three thousand made in 1830 byJohn Hanks and Abe Lincoln.
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Copyright, iSSl, George B. Ayres, PhiladelphiaLINCOLN IN 1860 (From an original negative taken at Lincolns home in Springfield, soon after his nomina-tion. When he saw the proof Lincoln remarked, Well, tliat expresses me better thanany I have seen ) THE NOMINATION 75 It was an exciting moment. To the convention therails meant that, under Abraham Lincohis leadership,the struggle they were just entering would be betweenthe plain people of the Lincoln type and a powerfulslave aristocracy who had no sympathy for labor. Theconvention went wild. Lincoln stood awkwardly, ahnostbashfully, smiling at the enthusiasm of his friendswhile he waited for quiet to say: Gentlemen, I sup-pose you want to know something about those things,pointing to the rails. I dont know whether we madethose rails or not; the fact is, I dont think they area credit to the makers (laughing as he spoke). ButI do know this. I made rails then, and I think I couldmake better ones than those now. The Chicago Convention met o

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