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Identifier: abrahamlincol2791shep (find matches)
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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Richard J. Oglesby,War Governor of Illinois. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 57 Lincoln blushed and laughed. They insisted upon aspeech, and he said: Gentlemen: I suppose you want to know somethingabout those things. Well, the truth is John Hanks andI did make rails in the Sangamon bottom. I dont know
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The Wigwam, at Chicago. The Building in which Lincoln was Nominatedfor the Presidency by the Republican Party, May 18, 1860. whether we made those rails or not. The fact is I dontthink they are a credit to the makers. But I do knowthat I made rails then, and think I could make betterones than those now. That convention closed with a resolution declaring:Abraham Lincoln is the first choice of the Republicanparty of Illinois for the presidency, and instructing the 58 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. delegates to the Chicago convention to use all honorablemeans to secure his nomination and to cast the vote ofthe state as a unit for him. Thus was the movement started that should makeAbraham Lincoln, the flat-boatman, the rail splitter, thestandard-bearer of the Republican party in the fatefulelection of i860. The convention met at Chicago on the 16th of May ina great wigwam at the corner of Lake and MarketStreets. William H. Seward of New York was the rep-resentative man of the East for the highest offic

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