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John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 21 : Missouri -continued (search)
Chapter 21: Missouri-continued
Here follows an extract from the published proceedings of the National Republican Convention of 1864, in which Mr. Lincoln was renominated.
When that State [Missouri] was called, Mr. J. F. Hume addressed the convention as follows:
It is a matter of great regret that we differ from the majority of the convention that has been so kind to the Radicals of Missouri, but we came here instructed.
We represent those who are behind us at home, and we recog ch prominent people as Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, and Benjamin F. Wade, of Ohio.
One of the men favorable to the proposition was Governor Andrew of Massachusetts. He, says his biographer, Peleg W. Chandler, was very busy in the movement in 1864 to displace the President.
The secrecy, he adds, with which this branch of the Republican politics of that year has been ever since enveloped is something marvelous; there were so many concerned in it. When it all comes out, if it ever does, it