In some respects, Montrose City Council’s decision to back efforts to place the Knights Pythias building onto the National Register of Historic Places was a matter of paperwork. But in
The outlook for the re-nomination and re-election of President Abraham Lincoln does not appear promising.
The nearly three-year-old Civil War continues to rage and many Northerners shake their heads in disbelief as their sons continue to die by the thousands each month on Southern battlefields. They doubt Republican Lincoln’s ability to bring hostilities to a peaceful close.
Most leaders in the Republican Party now say that the party is not strong enough alone to re-nominate Lincoln so they form a Union Party with Republicans and War Democrats who support the president and his war policies. The party will have its presidential convention in June in Baltimore.