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After
receiving the Republican nomination in Chicago on May 17, 1860, Lincoln
posed for this portrait by Alexander Hessler, a well-known Chicago
photographer. Typical of the time, Lincoln did not attend the convention
but remained at home in Springfield. Lincoln entered the convention with less support than William Seward of New York, but the Know-Nothings, a majority of whom had by now joined the Republican ranks, bitterly resented Seward's efforts as governor of New York to conciliate Irish voters by channeling state funds to parochial schools. Lincoln was nominated on the third ballot. The platform denied the validity of the Dred Scott decision, reaffirmed Republicans' intention of prohibiting slavery's expansion, and included economic planks that appealed to a broad array of Northern voters and were opposed by the South - free homesteads for settlers on federal land in the West, a protective tariff, and government aid in building a transcontinental railroad.. |
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Abraham
Lincoln, 1860
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