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