Fire the Salute! Abe Lincoln Is Nominated!

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Excerpt from Fire the Salute! Abe Lincoln Is Nominated!: Murat Halstead Reports the Republican National Convention in Chicago, May 16, 17 and 18, 1860N 0 one, Lincoln would say, could escape history. A ri¿e shot in Kansas, hammers knocking together a gallows in Virginia affected every-day citizens in Chicago, St. Louis, Charleston, Richmond, New York, Boston. When they hanged old John Brown, Murat Halstead made the journey to Charlestown so that he could give readers of the Cincinnati Commercial a per sonal story of the fateful day when against a bright midday sky the hills of western Virginia had seemed so very blue and old Brown had murmured, A man couldn't have asked for prettier weather.Now, with another spring, Halstead again was matching strides with history. In early May, in Baltimore, he watched, listened, scribbled as a conservative anti-democratic coalition of old Whigs and other political dissidents, mostly from the South, organized the Constitutional Union Party and nominated Sen ator John Bell of Tennessee for President. Halstead wrote his story and dashed for the train, Chicago-bound to report the convention of the six-year-old Republican Party.When we meet Murat Halstead in these pages, he is still en route to Chicago, and quite unaware that his personal stake in this mission would be immortality in political journalism. Hal stead, on the threshold of a brilliant career, would not turn thirty-one until the second of September. His background was entirely Ohioan - birthplace, Paddy's Run, Butler County, first nineteen years a see-saw between summers working on his father's farm and winters at school, then a short stint teaching before entering Farmers' College, near Cincinnati, whence he graduated in 1851.Halstead's first writing was a product of these undergraduate years. Apparently he revealed a fair talent for he quickly found employment in Cincinnati with the Atlas and then the Enquirer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.