A Life of Lincoln for Boys

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A Life of Lincoln for Boys
Frances Campbell Sparhawk
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" After this were names of others who were to be complimented, as the cus- tom was, by the first votes of their States ; these "complimentary" men were cheered by their own States. "But, " says an account, "at the names of Seward and Lincoln the whole wigwam seemed to respond together. " Some States seconded one candidate, and some the other. In the shouting and stamping the. Whole building shook. Then the balloting began.
The first ballot gave one hundred seventy- three and one-half votes to S
...eward, and one hundred and two for Lincoln, witli many scat- tering votes. In the next ballot Lincoln had gained seventy-nine votes, Seward only eleven. Two hundred and thirty-three votes were needed for a choice. The balloting went on again.
IN THE WIGWAM AT CHICAGO. 183 Lincoln was still gaining. At last, a teller waved his tally sheet and shouted a name, a cannon was fired from the roof of the wigwam, the crowds in the streets took up the shouts of those within the wigwam. At last, when he could be heard, the presiding officer announced that on the third ballot Abraham Lincoln of Illinois had received three hundred and sixty-four votes and was ''the candidate of the Convention for Presi- dent of the United States.


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