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Identifier: lincolnslifestor01selb (find matches)
Title: Lincoln's life, stories, and speeches
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Selby, Paul, 1825-1913
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Chicago : J.R. Stanton Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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e crocodileto the negro; and as the negro may rightfully treat thecrocodile as a beast or reptile, so the white man mayrightfully treat the negpro as a beast or reptile. LINCOLNS LAST INTERVIEW WITH DOUGLAS. One day Douglas came rushing in, he related,and said he had just got a telegraph dispatch fromsome friends in Illinois urging him to come out andhelp set things right in Egypt, and that he would go,or stay in Washington, just where I thought he coulddo the most good. * I told him to do as he chose, but that probably hecould do best in Illinois. Upon that he shook handswith me, and hurried away to catch the next train.I never saw him again. PEN PICTURE OF LINCOLN, AND HIS SPEECH INNEW YORK CITY. When Lincoln rose to speak, I was greatly disap-pointed. He was tall, tall, oh, so tall, and so angularand awkward that I had fc n instant a feeling of pityfor so ungainly a man. He began in a low tone ofvoice, as if he were used to speaking out of doors, andwas afraid of speaking too loud.
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oTORIES OF LINCOLN AS A LAWYER. 119 He said Mr. Cheerman, instead of Mr. Chair-man, and employed many other words with an old-fashioned pronunciation. I said to myself, Oldfellow, you wont do; it is all very well for the WildWest, but this will never go down in New York. Butpretty soon he began to get into the subject; hestraightened up, made regular and graceful gestures;his face lighted as with an inward fire; the whole manwas transfigured. I forgot the clothing, his personalappearance, and his individual peculiarities. Pres-ently, forgetting myself, I was on my feet with therest, yelling like a wild Indian, cheering the wonder-ful man. In the close parts of his argfument, youcould hear the gentle si2zling of the gas burners, *When he reached a climax, the thunders of applausewere terrific. It was a great speech. When I cameout of the hall my face was glowing with excitementand my frame all a-quiver. A friend, with his eyesaglow, asked me what I thought of Abe Lincoln, therail-split

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