Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-21

failure in everything he had undertake
en-. Yates gave Grant the opportunity
and made him the greatest general in
history. Governor Yates began his
pubic career as a member of the Hi
nols legislature, and in 1850 was sent
TO the national house. Here he sprang
into prominence as the youngest mem.
Der of the thirty-seventh congress. In
i 1860 he was elevated to the governor
ship, being returned to that office dur
Ing the tremendous war excitement of
1852. He served his constituency in
the United States senate from 1865 to
j 1871. His son also recently became
governor of Illinois, presenting line
of succession almost unparalleled in
history
Hannibal Hamlin.
Hannibal Hamlin, who held second
place on the ticket with Lincoln, was
a member of the Maine legislature
from 1886 to 1910 and again in 1S47.
He became speaker, then democratic
member of congress, later United
States senator, resigning in 1857 to
| become governor. Still later he was
regent of the Smithsonian institution.
and was many times elected United
States senator.
VIM. Pitt Kellogg.
William P. Kellogg's record in pub.
lie life includes service as chief Justice
of Nebraska, collector of the port of
New Orleans, governor of Louisiana
during the Hayes-Tilden presidential
contest; United States senator from
Louisiana from 1868 until 1871 and
congressman from 1883 until 1885.
Kellogg's experience in Louisiana was
unique. John McEnery, democrat,
contested the election and both he and
Kellogg were inaugurated governor on
January IA, 1878. There were two leg
islatures and dual government which
finally precipitated actual warfare.
President Grant recognized Kellogg
and quelled the insurgents by force
of federal troops.
leanord Sweet.
/ Leanord Sweet was personal friend
of Lincolns and in 1858, at Mr. Lin
coins special request, he was candi
date for the legislature on the repubIi
can ticket. He was elected and this
was the only official place he ever held
He was employed under Lincoln's ad
cases. He became one of the mos
noted lawyers of Illinois and it is re
lated of him that of twenty men de
Tended by him for the crime of muir
i der during his professional career, he
secured the acquittal of nineteen and
light punishment for the twentieth.
i Newton Bateman.
i The educational world was enriched
by Newton Bateman, who became pro
fessor of st. Charles college. Mo-;
1 president of Knox college, Galesburg
4 and state superintendent of public in
\ Struction
i Campaign of 1860 important.
The most momentous and far-reach
ing campaign in the history of the
United States was waged in 1860. In
that great characteristic period, which
burst in the overflowing fury of the
/ civil war. In that tremendous cata-
clysm which threatened to annihilate
the entire American nation-the great
est war in history-towering above
the awful spectacle of contending ar
mics and the red vista of slaughter
fields rises the giant figure of Abra-
4 ham Lincoln.
Lincoln the Man of the Age.
An eminent historical writer has
said that Lincoln's election as Presi,
dent OF the United States was not the
cause of the war of the rebellion, but
4 it was the signal of firing the first gun
OF that conflict. Those of the present
day who lived through the campaign
! that precipitated the civil war will
never have its memory effaced as long
as life endures. When the north was
arrayed against the south as brother
against brother, and when the hand
of destiny had written in indelible let.
tiers that slavery could only be washed
away with human blood, Lincoln was
forced forward as the man of the age
to direct the federal armies to victory
and preserve the union.
Morse, in his biography of Lincoln
says that since white men first landed
lon this continent the selection of
| Washington to lead the army of the
revolution is the only event to be com.
pared in good fortune to the nomina
ton OF Abraham Lincoln.
/ The state of Illinois was the storm
center OF the campaign of 1860 The
home OF Abraham Lincoln and Stephen
A. Douglass, the state was af1ame from
| end 10 end. The procession of the fam
GUS Wide Awake" club. formed O,
thousands and tens of thousands OF
excited men, have never been surpass
ed in spectacular effect. Clad in uni
form capes of red or white oil cloth
each with a flaming torch or colored
lantern, these clubs marched nightly
in every town and city of the north in
apparently endless numbers. Great
wagons filled with boys and girls in
red flannel uniforms and white dresses
and drawn by long, swaying lines OF
from ten to twenty oxen, rolled ma
jestically through the streets adding
majestically to the mighty uproar and
swelling the vast tidal wave of en-
thusiasm.
Four Different Tickets.
The campaign was novel in it's con-
ditlon of having four considerable par
ties and four different tickets fol
president and vice president. First in
the order of popular strength was the
republican party, which at its Chicago