CHAPTER XXVI

THE GREELEY CAMPAIGN

How Trumbull received the news--Carl Schurz advises Greeley to decline the nomination--Greeley decides to accept it--Meeting of Liberal Republican leaders in New York to consider their course--Trumbull and Schurz decide to support the Cincinnati ticket--Correspondence between Schurz and Godkin--Parke Godwin against Greeley--President Grant renominated by the Republicans with Henry Wilson for Vice-President--The Democrats at Baltimore adopt both nominees and platform of the Liberal Republicans--A minority call a bolting convention, which nominates Charles O'Conor--Trumbull's speech at Springfield, Illinois, in support of the Cincinnati ticket--Greeley's campaign starts with the prospect of victory--North Carolina election in August gives the Grant ticket a small majority--The tide turns against Greeley--Greeley takes the stump in September and makes a favorable impression, but too late--The October elections, in Pennsylvania and Ohio, go heavily Republican--Greeley and Brown defeated--Death of Greeley following the election--State election in Louisiana in 1872--Fraudulent returns in favor of Kellogg exposed by Senators Carpenter and Trumbull--Kellogg sustained by President Grant 389