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roar of Lake Michigan in its wildest fury; nay, it was said that his shout could be heard, on a calm day, across that lake. Cook, of Ottawa, knew another man, living on the Illinois River, a Dr. Ames, who had never found his equal in his ability to shout and huzzah. He was, however, a Democrat.

"Cook telegraphed for him to come to Chicago by the first train. These two men with stentorian voices met some of the Illinois delegation at the Tremont House, and were instructed to organize each a body of men to cheer and shout, which they speedily did out of the crowds which were in attendance from the Northwest. They were placed on opposite sides of the 'Wigwam,' and instructed that when Cook took out his white handkerchief they were to cheer, and not to cease until he returned it to his pocket. Cook was conspicuous on the platform, and, at the first utterance of the name of Lincoln, simultaneously with the wave of Cook's handkerchief, there went up such a cheer, such a shout as never before had been heard, and which startled the friends of Seward as the cry of 'Marmion,' on Flodden Field, 'startled the Scottish foe.' The New Yorkers tried to follow when the name of Seward was spoken, but, beaten at their own game, their voices were instantly and absolutely drowned by cheers for Lincoln. This was kept

up until Lincoln was nominated, amid a storm of applause never before equaled.

"Ames was so carried away with his enthusiasm for Lincoln that he joined the Republican party, and continued to shout for Lincoln during the whole campaign; he was afterward rewarded with a country post-office.

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"While the Convention was in session Lincoln was at his home in Springfield. The proceedings and the result of each ballot were immediately communicated to him by a telegraph wire extending from the Wigwam.' At the time of the second ballot Lincoln was with some friends in the office of the Sangamon Journal. Soon a gentleman hastily entered from the telegraph office, bearing a slip of paper on which his nomination-the result of the third ballot was written. He read the paper to himself, and then aloud, and then, without stopping to receive congratulations of his friends, he said: 'There is a little woman down at our house who would like to hear this. I'll go down and tell her.' The incident speaks relatively of the affectionate relations between him and his wife. She was far more anxious that he should be President than he himself was, and her early dream was now to be realized.

"No words can adequately describe the enthusiasm with which this nomination was received in

Chicago, in Illinois, and throughout the Northwest. A man who had been placed on top of the Wigwam to announce to the thousands outside the progress of the balloting, as soon as the secretary read the result of the third ballot, shouted to those below: 'FIRE THE SALUTE-LINCOLN IS NOMINATED.' The cannon was fired, and before its reverberations died away a hundred thousand voters of Illinois and the neighboring States were shouting, screaming, and rejoicing at the result."

Immediately after the Convention adjourned, a committee visited Mr. Lincoln in Springfield, Ill., to inform him officially of his nomination. After this ceremony had passed, Mr. Lincoln remarked that, as an appropriate conclusion to an interview so important and interesting, he supposed good manners would require that he should furnish the committee something to drink; and opening a door, he called out, Mary! Mary!" A girl responded to the call, to whom Mr. Lincoln spoke a few words in an undertone. In a few minutes the maiden entered, bearing a large waiter, containing several glass tumblers and a large pitcher, and placed it upon the center-table.

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Mr. Lincoln arose, and gravely addressing the company, said: "Gentlemen, we must pledge our mutual healths in the most healthy beverage which God has given to man. It is the only beverage I have

ever used or allowed in my family, and I can not conscientiously depart from it on the present occasion; it is pure Adam's ale from the spring;" and, taking a tumbler, he touched it to his lips, and pledged them his highest respects in a cup of cold water.

THE MORAL ASPECT OF THE CAM

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PAIGN OF 1860.

URING the campaign of 1860," says J. G. Holland, in his "Life of Lincoln," "Mr. Newton Bateman, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Illinois, occupied a room adjoining and opening into the executive chamber at Springfield, and he saw Mr. Lincoln nearly every day. Often when Mr. Lincoln was tired, he closed the door against all intruders, and called Mr. Bateman into his room for a quiet talk. On one of these occasions, Mr. Lincoln took up a book containing a careful canvass of the city of Springfield, in which he lived, showing the candidate for whom each citizen had declared it his intention to vote in the approaching election. Mr. Lincoln's friends had, doubtless at his own request, placed the result of the canvass in his hands. This was only a few days before election. Calling Mr. Bateman to a seat by his side, having previously locked all the doors, he said: 'Let us look over this book; I wish particularly to see how the ministers of Springfield are going to vote.' The leaves were turned,

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