We may lose theSenatorship as far as my personal candidacy is concerned.
He gained the Senatorship by a narrow margin; he secured in the vote in the Legislature a majority of eight, but Lincoln had even in this fight won the support of the people.
What would the loss of the senatorship mean to such a man?
From the Senatorship you condescend; there really is a world to which a Senator can condescend.
Charles also resigned thesenatorship of Rome which he had held for ten years.
What did I care for the senatorship anyway--if I had her?
It isn't everybody the senatorship comes to on a platter--especially at your age," said Tallant.
What struck me first, when I began to debate upon it, was that the senatorship offered a new and possibly higher field for my energies, while at the same time the office would be a logical continuation of a signal legal career.
He had been Senator before the Civil War, and also Governor of Maine; now, after the war, in 1868, he had again been nominated for the senatorship under the auspices of the Republican party.
Two of his lifelong friends were rival candidates for the senatorship from Maine, and each had expressed the hope that the old Squire would aid him in his canvass.
To the astonishment of the country, when the debate was over, Lincoln carried Illinois on the popular vote, although he lost the senatorship through the arrangement of legislative districts that gave the election to the Democrats.
He made a splendid fight for the statesenatorship candidacy, against H.
It had at least served to bring to the state one of its most distinguished citizens, afterward to be honored with the United States senatorship and the secretaryship of the interior.
In 1858 he had his great contest for the United States Senatorship with Douglas.
In 1855 he withdrew from the contest for the United States Senatorship in favor of Mr. Trumbull, whom he knew would draw away many Democratic votes and to Lincoln was due Trumbull's election.
During the canvass of 1858 for the senatorship my belief was, and still is, that I had no more sincere and faithful friend than Mr. Judd--certainly none whom I trusted more.
Lincoln and his friends were now only trying to secure what Trumbull had cheated them out of in 1855, when the senatorship fell to Trumbull.
He had read in the Missouri Democrat of this man Lincoln, a country lawyer who had once been to Congress, and who was even now disputing the senatorship of his state with the renowned Douglas.
This was the senatorship to which Garfield had been elected and now declined to fill.
I will forward my declination of the senatorship in time to reach the general assembly on the first day of its session.
Douglas, however, won the senatorship by a vote in the legislature of 54 to 46.
Lost in the legislature the senatorship to Douglas.
Won the State over to the Republicans, but by arrangement transferred his claim to the senatorship to Trumbull.
Having "the senatorship in his eye," or even a dearer if not a nearer object, Lincoln resigned the seat he won in this revolutionary house.
On the other hand, a vacancy in the State senatorship at Washington falling pat, he was set up as Whig candidate.
The friends and mouthpieces of some of the present leaders have been base enough to charge that I bought the Senatorship from Lorenzo Snow, president of their own church.
What excuse does the now ex-senator make for thus appropriating the high honors of a senatorship that came to him by reason of his election by Church influence?
The friends and mouthpieces of some of the present leaders have been mean enough to charge that I bought the senatorship from Lorenzo Snow, President of their own Church.
The man chosen to fill the vacancy would have an almost irresistible claim upon the senatorship if the Democrats should control the next legislature.
He says he wants to do the state one patriotic service before he dies by cleaning out the bosses, and he doesn't want to spoil the record by taking the senatorship himself.
Another campaign must intervene before the United States Senatorship became an acute issue, and meanwhile the party in the state had not in many years been so united.
I have known for several years that he intended to get rid of me as soon as he felt he could do it safely, and be ready to capture the senatorshipwhen he saw that our party was in shape to win again.
When the Massachusetts senatorship was in question Mr. Adams urged the election of Governor Lincoln, and objected on the most flattering grounds to Mr. Webster's withdrawal from the House.
He was willing himself to lose the senatorship in order to defeat Douglas for the Presidency in 1860.
Their first step was to counsel the leaders of their party in Illinois to put up no candidate against Douglas for the United States senatorship in 1858.
The number of Republican papers in the State which responded approvingly was surprisingly large, and I soon found myself in the situation of an acknowledged candidate for the senatorship "in the hands of his friends.
I was nominated for thesenatorship on the first ballot, and on motion the nomination was made unanimous.
Just as Governor Hayes was vacating the office of chief executive of Ohio, to which he had positively refused to be re-elected, he was offered and declined the Senatorship from that State.
A leading State Senator declared it "was most extraordinary to see the Senatorship refused, with the Presidency in prospect.
So long as I spoke your speech and did your bidding I might have the senatorship for the asking.
Why, he offered me the senatorship as coolly as if he had it in his pocket!
Whether Justice Davis sought this election to the senatorship at this juncture or not, {288} in order to escape the great responsibility that was about to fall upon him, we do not know.
His campaign against Lincoln for the senatorship does not properly appertain to the Life of Trumbull, although the latter took an active part in it.
Davis accepted the senatorship and declined to serve as the fifth judge.
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