Chicago, Republican Party convention: the party’s various factions debate a presidential candidate. There are the businessmen of the East, the refined intellectuals of New England, the rugged freesoilers of the frontier, the frontiersmen of the Midwest, the workers of Pennsylvania, the conservatives and the Puritan abolitionists (of slavery). In the end, the most prominent figures are too partisan, and they fall back on a secondary figure who everyone can agree on. For the first time, a presidential candidate has the rugged and energetic hands of the frontiersmen and freesoilers of the Midwest: a former provincial lawyer from Illinois: Abraham Lincoln.
