"Boss" Tweed : the story of a grim generation / by Denis Tilden Lynch.

218 "Boss" Tweed
"Tweed-In this city on Friday Morning, May 18, of disease of
the heart, Richard Tweed, in the 70th year of his age. The friends
of the family, of his sons Richard Jr., and William M., and grandson, Charles Rodgers, are respectively invited to attend his funeral
from his late residence, 237 East Broadway, on Monday afternoon
at two o'clock, without further notice."
In the same issue the lead story tells of the nomination of
Lincoln at Chicago the preceding day. Throughout the paper
Lincoln's first name is spelled Abram. This error or slight is
repeated for many days. From a sketch of the nominee published in The Herald of May 19, we quote:
"Mr. Lincoln was comparatively unknown to the people of this
section of the Union until during the past Winter when he made
a tour of the Middle and New England States, delivering stump
speeches at twenty-five cents per capita admission. He delivered
a speech in the Cooper Union Institute which he evidently carefully
prepared for the newspapers, but on the night of the lecture he
interspersed it with radical Republican sentiments as treasonable
as Seward's 'irrepressible conflict' doctrine. He realized $200 from
this lecture. He next visited Connecticut and stumped that State
for the Republicans. The fact that he charged an admission for
his lectures-a thing unknown before in our political history-was
the subject of comment among leading Republicans, and in several
instances, received the rebuke which such political showmanship
deserved."
A few days later Bennett penned these appraisals-in charity
let us characterize them as snobbish-of Lincoln:
"A rough-spun, disputatious village politician, who is known as
'Honest Abe' Lincoln-honest because he has the reputation of
being as truculent as he promises, and like John Brown, means
what he says. Seward was a refined Republican whom his party
could not force beyond his own judgment. Lincoln is exactly the
same type as the traitor who was hung at Charleston-an Abolitionist of the reddest dye, liable to be led to extreme lengths by
other men. Without education or refinement, he will be the plaything of his party, whirled along in the vortex of passion if he
should gain control of the government. The comparison between