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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: a Democrat, and had yet upheld the war. The choice fell upon
Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, who was not only a Democrat, but had
been appointed by Mr. Lincoln military governor of Tennessee in
1862.
The Democrats at first meant to have the national convention of
their party meet on the fourth of July; but after Fremont had
been nominated at Cleveland and Lincoln at Baltimore, they
postponed it to a later date, hoping that something in the
chapter of accidents might happen to their advantage. At first it
appeared as if this might be the case. The outlook for the
Republicans was far from satisfactory. The terrible fighting and
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