Chapter XXV: The Cincinnati Convention

The Liberal Republican Convention in Missouri calls national
convention at Cincinnati--Prompt and favorable response in Ohio
and other states--Cooeperation of leading Democrats--Springfield
_Republican_, Cincinnati _Commercial_, and Chicago _Tribune_,
Republican newspapers, support the movement--Henry Watterson,
Manton Marble, and August Belmont, Democrats, cooeperate--The
movement in Pennsylvania--William C. Bryant and others favor the
nomination of Trumbull for President--Great meeting at Cooper
Union, New York--Governor Palmer, of Illinois, favors the
movement--Charles Francis Adams, Horace Greeley, David Davis, B.
Gratz Brown, and A. G. Curtin mentioned for
President--Correspondence with Trumbull on the subject--The
editors' dinner at Murat Halstead's house--Platform
embarrassment--The tariff question referred to the congressional
districts--Frank Blair and Gratz Brown cause a commotion--Carl
Schurz made chairman of the convention--Balloting for
President--Brown withdraws his name and advises his friends to
vote for Greeley--Greeley nominated on the sixth
ballot--Consternation of the supporters of Adams and
Trumbull--Most of the Liberal Republican editors decide to
support Greeley--Carl Schurz is much distressed--Godkin and
Bryant reject Greeley--Correspondence between Bryant and
Trumbull--Charles Sumner's hesitating course--He finally decides
to support Greeley 372