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Excerpt from Indiana Cities and Towns: Indianapolis W'hen Mr. Lincoln paid his next visit to Indianapolis he was no longer a private citizen. The presidential election of 1860. Which took place. On Tuesday. Nov. 6, had changed his status in that respect. During the preceding summer and fall he had spent the long days of the rampaign in Sp: inglield, receiving a constant stream of visitors. Who called on him in one of the rooms set apart for the Governor's use in the State House, and which had been courteously turned over to Mr. Lincoln soon after his nomination at Chicago. There was free access to him, said his secretary; not even an usher stood at his door; any one might knock and enter. His immediate personal friends from Sangamon County and central Illinois availed them selves largely of. This opportunity. With men who had known him in field and forest he talked over the inci dents of their common experience with unaffected sim plicity and interest as though he were yet the ?atboat man, surveyor or village lawyer of early days. The letters which came to him by hundreds, the newspapers and conversations of friends kept him sufficiently inv formed of the progress of the campaign in which, per sonally, he look very little part. 110 made no addresses, wrote no public letters, held-no conferences. Political leaders several times came to make campaign agpecches at the Republican wigwam' in Springfield. But beyond a few casual interviews on such occasions the great presidential canvass went on with scarcely a private suggestion or touch of actual direction from the Re publican candidate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.