The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln; Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and ... Which Are Added Anecdotes and Personal Remini baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1865. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII. THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1864. Thk Presidextal Election.--The Olevei And Contention.--The ConVention At Baltimore.--Mr. Lincoln's Renomination And AcceptAnce. -- Populab Feeling During The Summer. -- The Arouzlles Case.--The Foroed Proclamation.--The Niagara Falls Conference. --the Chicago Convention.--Progress And Result Of The CamPaign.--Popular Jot At The Result. The American people were approaching another test of their capacity for self-government, in some respects more trying than any they had yet encountered. As the spring of 1864 was passing away, the official term of President Lincoln drew towards its close, and the people were required to choose his successor. At all times and under the most favorable circumstances, the election of a President is attended with a degree of excitement, which some of the wisest theorists have pronounced inconsistent with the permanent harmony and safety of a republican form of government. But that such an election should become necessary in the midst of a civil war, which wrapped the whole country in its flames and aroused such intense and deadly passions in the public heart, was felt to be foremost among the calamities which had menaced the land. The two great rebel armies still held the field. The power of their government was still unbroken. All our attempts to capture their capital had proved abortive. The public debt was steadily and rapidly increasing. Under the resistless pressure of military necessity, the Government, availing itself of the permissions of the Constitution, had suspended the great safeguard of civil freedom, and dealt with individuals whom it deemed dangerous to the public safety with as absolute and relentless severity as the most absolute monarchies of Europe had ever sho...