Lincoln And the Convention of 1860 Address Delivered Before the Wisconsin State
Lincoln And the Convention of 1860 Address Delivered Before the Wisconsin State
Gerry Whiting Hazelton
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Mr. Chase received 42*/; Mr. Bates received 35; 22 were scattering. Lincoln received 181, and his friends were jubilant. They knew what it signified. It should be borne in mind that outside the convention was a great body of people, estimated at fifty or seventy-five thousand, just 95 10 LINCOLN AND THE CONVENTION, 1860 HAZLETON as anxious to know what was going on as those inside, and the com mittee on Arrangements had provided for just this emergency. They had erected a small platform at the ...base of the roof of the Wigwam and had engaged a well-known auctioneer of Chicago to occupy this platform and herald to the crowd what was trans piring inside the Wigwam. After the first formal ballot the re sult was handed up to him and he proclaimed it to the crowd out side, and the report was received with loud cheers. Then during the interim, while the second ballot was being taken the auctioneer desiring to entertain the crowd, drew from his pocket a piece of paper. "Gentlemen, " he said, "give me your attention.
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