1860 election

[Angela]

As far as I understood, it was customary at that time that candidates would not campaign for themselves. And while Lincoln followed tradition he hated having to sit out the campaign.
Only a month after Lincoln was nominated, William Herndon wrote in a letter to Lyman Trumbull: "He is bored – BORED badly. Good gracious, I would not have his place and be bored as he is – I could not endure it.”