died away, the roar began on the outside, and swelled up from the excited masses like the noise of many waters.  This the insiders heard, and to it they replied.  Thus deep called to deep with such a frenzy of sympathetic enthusiasm that even the thundering salute of cannon was unheard by many on the platform.  When the excitement had partly subsided, Mr. Evarts of New York arose, and in appropriate words expressed his grief that Seward had not been nominated.  He then moved that the nomination of Abraham Lincoln be made unanimous.  Governor John A. Andrew of Massachusetts and Hon. Carl Schurz of Wisconsin seconded the motion, and it was carried.  Then the enthusiasm of the multitude burst out anew.  A large banner, prepared by the Pennsylvania delegation, was conspicuously displayed, bearing the inscription, ’Pennsylvania good for twenty thousand majority for the people’s candidate, Abe Lincoln.’  Delegates tore up the sticks and boards bearing the names of their several States, and waved them aloft over their heads.  A brawny man jumped upon the platform, and pulling his coat-sleeves up to his elbows, shouted:  ’I can’t stop!  Three times three more cheers for our next President, Abe Lincoln!’ A full-length portrait of the candidate was produced upon the platform.  Mr. Greeley telegraphed to the N.Y.  Tribune:  ’There was never another such scene in America.’  Chicago went wild.  One hundred guns were fired from the top of the Tremont House.  At night the city was in a blaze of glory.  Bonfires, processions, torchlights, fire-works, illuminations and salutes, ’filled the air with noise and the eye with beauty.’  ‘Honest Old Abe’ was the utterance of every man in the streets.  The Illinois delegation before it separated ‘resolved’ that the millennium had come.”

Governor Andrew, who was destined to have highly important and intimate relations with Lincoln during the Civil War, records his first impressions of him in a few vivid sentences.  “Beyond the experiences of the journey from Boston to Chicago,” says Andrew’s biographer, “beyond even the strain and excitement of those hours in caucus and convention, was the impression made on him by Lincoln as he saw him for the first time.”  Andrew was one of the committee of delegates who went to Springfield to notify Lincoln of his nomination at Chicago.  He and the other delegates, he says, “saw in a flash that here was a man who was master of himself.  For the first time they understood that he whom they had supposed to be little more than a loquacious and clever State politician, had force, insight, conscience; that their misgivings were vain....  My eyes were never visited with the vision of a human face in which more transparent honesty and more benignant kindness were combined with more of the intellect and firmness which belong to masculine humanity.  I would trust my case with the honesty and intellect and heart and brain of Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer; and I would trust my country’s cause in the care of Abraham Lincoln as its chief magistrate, while the wind blows and the water runs.”