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

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