OHIO
Archaeological and Historical
PUBLICATIONS.
INTRODUCTION
A wide interest attaches to everything
that is said
or written of Abraham Lincoln. Ohioans
will be
pleased to review the authentic
historic record that links
his name and fame with the Buckeye
state.
The monograph on the following pages
presents for
the first time in chronological order
Lincoln's contact
with Ohio and the relation of our state
and its promi-
nent public men to the crisis through
which our Nation
passed in the Civil War, under the
leadership of the
Martyr President whose fame, increasing
with the pass-
ing years, has become to the civilized
world a sacred
heritage and hallowed memory. Abraham
Lincoln is
and will continue to be a beneficent,
living influence in
our Republic.
Without the effective support given
Lincoln by fol-
lowers in Ohio, he could not have been
nominated for
the presidency. This will be the
conclusion of those
who read the chapter on the following
pages entitled
"Ohio's Part in Lincoln's
Nomination." Especially in-
teresting will be found the attitude of
the Ohio delega-
tion at the Chicago convention of 1860.
With so able
and deserving a candidate from their
own state as Sal-
mon P. Chase it required on the part of
delegates cour-
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