Chapter 10

Birth of the Republican Party--Lincoln One of Its Fathers--Takes His Stand with the Abolitionists--The Bloomington Convention--Lincoln's Great Anti-Slavery Speech--A Ratification Meeting of Three--The First National Republican Convention--Lincoln's Name Presented for the Vice-Presidency--Nomination of Fremont and Dayton--Lincoln in the Campaign of 1856--His Appearance and Influence on the Stump--Regarded as a Dangerous Man--His Views on the Politics of the Future--First Visit to Cincinnati--Meeting with Edwin M. Stanton--Stanton's First Impressions of Lincoln--Regards Him as a "Giraffe"--A Visit to Cincinnati