In 1852 circumstances combined to prevent the nomination of the convention's first or second choice, and in the end, as a ball-player at the bat earns first base through the errors of a pitcher, Franklin Pierce benefited.
Alexander draws a parallel between political nominations and baseball, illustrating how unexpected circumstances can lead to success.
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I discerned also unmistakable evidences of stern integrity, earnest patriotism, and unswerving fidelity.
Indeed, he went a step farther in the way of irreconciliation, preferring Hoffman and Tammany, he said, to "the reckless, red-radicalism which rules the present Congress....
This is the spirit in which I have determined for myself to come up to this great question, and to pass through it.
Why should we now make any concessions to them?
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