Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln So rapidly did he come to the front that he was candidate for the office of lieutenant-governor of Wisconsin in 1857, and came within two hundred votes of an election. In the great debate between Lincoln and Douglas in 1858, he joined himself to Lincoln and took an active part in that political cam paign. That was the beginning of his friendship with Lincoln; and though as chairman of the Wiscon sin delegation to the convention in 1860, he persist ently advocated the nomination of Mr. Seward, he accepted heartily the choice of Lincoln, and from that time till the election was incessantly working for him and addressing political meetings. Mr Lincoln set so high a value on Mr. Schurz's Worth that be appointed him Minister to Spain. At the time, he was actively engaged in organizing the first cavalry regiment Of volunteers; and when after a few months at Madrid he returned to lay before the administration the result of his observation of the political attitude of European governments, he was appointed brigadier-general, and a few months later major-general, and served in the field till the end of the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.