The Liberal Republican Convention in Missouri calls national convention at Cincinnati--Prompt and favorable response in Ohio and other states--Coöperation of leading Democrats--Springfield _Republican_, Cincinnati _Commercial_, and Chicago _Tribune_, Republican newspapers, support the movement--Henry Watterson, Manton Marble, and August Belmont, Democrats, coöperate--The movement in Pennsylvania--William C. Bryant and others favor the nomination of Trumbull for President--Great meeting at Cooper Union, New York--Governor Palmer, of Illinois, favors the movement--Charles Francis Adams, Horace Greeley, David Davis, B. Gratz Brown, and A. G. Curtin mentioned for President--Correspondence with Trumbull on the subject--The editors' dinner at Murat Halstead's house--Platform embarrassment--The tariff question referred to the congressional districts--Frank Blair and Gratz Brown cause a commotion--Carl Schurz made chairman of the convention--Balloting for President--Brown withdraws his name and advises his friends to vote for Greeley--Greeley nominated on the sixth ballot--Consternation of the supporters of Adams and Trumbull--Most of the Liberal Republican editors decide to support Greeley--Carl Schurz is much distressed--Godkin and Bryant reject Greeley--Correspondence between Bryant and Trumbull--Charles Sumner's hesitating course--He finally decides to support Greeley 372 CHAPTER XXVI THE GREELEY CAMPAIGN How Trumbull received the news--Carl Schurz advises Greeley to decline the nomination--Greeley decides to accept it--Meeting of Liberal Republican leaders in New York to consider their course--Trumbull and Schurz decide to support the Cincinnati ticket--Correspondence between Schurz and Godkin--Parke Godwin against Greeley--President Grant renominated by the Republicans with Henry Wilson for Vice-President--The Democrats at Baltimore adopt both nominees and platform of the Liberal Republicans--A minority call a bolting convention, which nominates Charles O'Conor--Trumbull's speech at Springfield, Illinois, in support of the Cincinnati ticket--Greeley's campaign starts with the prospect of victory--North Carolina election in August gives the Grant ticket a small majority--The tide turns against Greeley--Greeley takes the stump in September and makes a favorable impression, but too late--The October elections, in Pennsylvania and Ohio, go heavily Republican--Greeley and Brown defeated--Death of Greeley following the election--State election in Louisiana in 1872--Fraudulent returns in favor of Kellogg exposed by Senators Carpenter and Trumbull--Kellogg sustained by President Grant 389 CHAPTER XXVII LATER YEARS