The Lincolns in Kentucky -Video

[Anita]

(06-09-2024 03:36 PM)mbgross Wrote:  Does anyone know of the primary source that the Lincoln people printed counterfeit tickets to gain access into the Wigwam during the nominating convention?

An excellent article in the Rail Splitter by Dan Ackerman "The Long Search is Over" July 4, 2021. He addresses the counterfeit issue.

The convention is described in detail in Stefan Lorant’s 1951 tome “The Glorious Burden”. The chapter on the election of 1860 seems to be the basis for the “legend” that Lincoln’s handlers printed up counterfeit admission tickets and “packed the seats” with Lincoln partisans. The Seward supporters “overshot” a parade and, returning to the Wigwam, found themselves “shut out” of the gallery seats and forced to mill about outside the hall. We find this story highly suspect. It assumes, number one, that tickets for the gallery seats were issued and, number two, that it was possible to identify 1,000 Lincoln supporters, give them bogus tickets, assemble them all in one place at a chosen time, and get them all seated prior to the arrival of the Seward men. It doesn’t make sense. They had enough on their minds without having to dream up and implement a political “dirty trick” of this type.
https://railsplitter.com/articles/the-lo...h-is-over/

I read the Chapter in Lorant's "The Glorious Burden" and he didn't provide a primary source.