Book Excerpt: ‘A Horse for Mr. Lincoln’ (Part 3)

A little-known Illinois country attorney, Abraham Lincoln, was seeking the Republican nomination for president as shown in “The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History” by Edward Achorn. Public Domain

Editor’s note: The following is the third in a series of excerpts from “A Horse for Mr. Lincoln” by the Hon. Preston Manning, a self-described “lifelong fan of Lincoln.” Illustrated by Henri de Groot, the book is a work of fiction and looks at how events in the United States might have turned out differently, with the country being much more unified today if Abraham Lincoln had not gone to the theatre on that fateful night of April 14, 1865.

The other excerpts can be found in the following links: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 4.

6. SECOND TERM

The events of Mr. Lincoln’s second term have been thoroughly documented elsewhere.