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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a character sketch
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Sheppard, Robert Dickinson, b. 1846 Adam, G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer), 1830-1912 Shepardson, Francis Wayland, 1862-1937. The life of Lincoln Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910. The early days of Abraham Lincoln
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Chicago : Union School Furnishing Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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e of discipline; approachable to all who had anerrand, or who needed to invoke the great, strong, kind-hearted President. He came down to the close of hisfirst term of office to be triumphantly re-elected, and to 72 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. inaugurate the work of reconstruction, for he who savedthe Union was, in the judgment of the people, the onewho might most effectually restore it to its old form, free from the curseof slavery, tothe condition ofa great homo-geneous com-mon-wealth, thehome of happi-ness and thriftand freedom.He began hiswork with hisold kind, con-ciliatory, yetself-confident,tact, and just ashe had begun,the bullet of anassassin remov-ed him from la-bor to reward.That assassina-tion conferred on him the crown of martyrdom. If hehad survived, he might have been Moses and Joshua iaone. It was enough that he was Moses. Let us close with the words of Owen Lovejoy, spokenwhen emancipation resolutions were under considerationand Mr. Crittenden had said,I have a niche for Abraham
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Fords Theatre, Washington where Lincoln was shotby John Wilkes Booth, April 14, 1865. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 73 Lincoln. Mr. Lovejoy exclaimed,I, too, have a nichefor Abraham Lincoln,but it is in Freedoms holy fame andnot in the blood besmeared temple of human bondage; notsurrounded by slaves, fetters and chains, but with thesymbols of freedom; not dark with bondage but radiantwith the light of liberty. In that niche he shall standproudly, nobly, gloriously, with shattered fetters andbroken chains and slave whips at his feet. If Abraham Lincoln pursues the path evidently point-ed out for him in the Providence of God, as I believehe will, then he will occupy the proud position I haveindicated. That is a fame worth living for, aye, more,that is a fame worth dying for, though that death ledthrough the blood of Gethsemane and the agony of theaccursed tree. That is a fame which has glory, honorand immortality and eternal life. Let Abraham Lincoln make himself, as I trust hewill, the Emancipator,

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