not broken the lines of the party. Early in that month
a body of Democrats, who declined to accept Mr. Greeley, and who called
themselves "Straightouts," held a convention at Louisville, and
nominated Charles O'Connor for President and John Quincy Adams for
Vice-President. The ticket received a small number of votes in many
States, but did not become an important factor in the National struggle.

In anticipation of the October elections Mr. Greeley made an extended
tour through Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, addressing great masses of
people every day and many times a day during a period of two weeks.
His speeches, while chiefly devoted to his view of the duty and policy
of pacification, discussed many questions and many phases of the chief
question. They were varied, forcible, and well considered. They
presented his case with an ability which could not be exceeded, and
they added to the general estimate of his intellectual faculties and
resources. He called out a larger proportion of those who intended to
vote against him than any candidate had ever before succeeded in doing.
His name had been honored for so many years in every Republican
household, that the desire to see and hear him was universal, and
secured to him the majesty of numbers at every meeting. So great
indeed was the general demonstration of interest, that a degree of
uneasiness was created at Republican headquarters as to the ultimate
effect of his tour.

The State contests had been strongly organized on both sides at the
decisive points. In New York the Democrats nominated Francis Kernan
for Governor,--a man of spotless character and great popularity. The
Republicans selected General John A. Dix as the rival candidate, on the
earnest suggestion of Thurlow Weed, whose sagacity in regard to the
strength of political leaders was rarely at fault. General Dix was in
his seventy-fifth year, but was fresh and vigorous both in body and
mind. In Indiana the leading Democrat, Thomas A. Hendricks, accepted
the gubernatorial nomination and the leadership of his party, against
General Thomas M. Browne, a popular Republican and a strong man on the
stump. Pennsylvania was the scene of a peculiarly bitter and angry
conflict. General Hartranft, the Republican candidate for Governor,
had been Auditor-General of the State, and his administration of the
office was bitterly assailed. The old factional differences in the
State now entered into the antagonism,