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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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HORATIO SEYMOUR. of Mr. Lincoln. The peace wing of tlie party opposed his nomination. He is a tyrant! shouted Mr. Harris, delegate from Maryland. He it was who initiated the policy by which our liberties werestricken down. He is the assassin of State rights, the usurper of liberty ;and if nominated will be beaten, as he was at Antietam. You have arraigned Lincoln, said Mr. Long, of Ohio, for inter-fering with the freedom of speech, the freedom of elections, and of ar-bitrary arrests; and yet you propose to nominate a man who has beenguilty of the arrest of the Legislature of a sovereign State. He hassuspended the writ of habeas corpus, and helped to enforce the odious PEACE DEMOCRACY. 441 Emancipation Proclamation of Lincoln, the instrument of a corrupt andtyrannical administration. McClellan was almost unanimously nominated. George II. Pendle-ton, of Ohio, was selected as candidate for Vice-president. While theconvention was resolving that the war was a failure, the troops underGener

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