receives vote for Vice-President in Republican National Convention;
his surprise;
his opinion of Kansas question;
delivers speech at organization of Republican party;
meets disapproval at Springfield;
in campaign of 1856;
encounters hostility of Greeley in the East;
journey of Herndon in his behalf;
nominated by State Convention for senatorship;
damaged by Whig support of Douglas;
prepares letter of acceptance;
reads paragraph on situation to friends;
alarms advisers by his plainness of utterance;
insists on asserting the irrepressible conflict;
statesmanship of his course;
challenges Douglas to joint debate;
misrepresentations of his position on slavery;
his appeal to "the fathers";
his accusation against the South;
his crucial question to Douglas;
Douglas's reply;
his position on Dred Scott decision;
accused of duplicity;
his views as to slavery under the Constitution considered;
on Abolitionists;
on negro race;
his freedom from animosity toward opponents or slaveholders;
does not denounce slaveholders;
his fairness a mental trait;
on popular sovereignty;
convicts Douglas of ambiguity;
alleged purpose to discredit Douglas as presidential candidate;
feels himself upholder of a great cause;
his moral denunciation of slavery;
his literary form;
elevation of tone;
disappointed at defeat by Douglas;
exhausted by his efforts;
asked to contribute to campaign fund.

_Candidate for Presidency_.
Makes speeches in Ohio;
calls Douglas pro-slavery;
invited to speak in New York, prepares address;
journey through Kansas;
his New York address;
states the situation;
praised by newspapers;
tour in New England;
comprehensive nature of his speeches;
ignores disunion;
by dwelling on wrong of slavery, makes disunion wrong;
slow to admit publicly a desire for presidency;
enters field in 1859;
nominated as candidate by Illinois Republican Convention;
his managers at National Convention;
yelled for by hired shouters;
supposed to be more moderate than Seward;
his own statement of principles;
votes secured for, by bargains;
nominated on third ballot;
accepts nomination in dejection;
his nomination a result of "availability";
little known in country at large;
anxious to avoid discussion of side issues;
opposed by Abolitionists;
supported by Giddings;
elected;
the choice of a minor