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Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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epeal. It is due the South; it is due to the Consti-tution. The repeal, if we can effect it, will produce much stir andcommotion in the Free States for a season. I shall be assailed bydemagogues and fanatics without stint or moderation. Every oppro-brious epithet will be applied to me. I probably shall be hung ineffigy in many places. It is more than probable that I may becomepermanently odious among those whose friendship I have hitherto pos-sessed. The proceeding may end my political career. But, acting 140 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. under the sense of duty which animates me, I am prepared to make thesacrifice, and I will do it. (\) Having been assured that Douglas would do what Senators fromthe Slave States wanted done, Atchison was quite willing to remainPresident of the Senate. On Sunday morning, January 22d, Senator Douglas, of Illinois, andJefferson Davis, of Mississippi, were ringing the bell at the White House.President Pierce did not attend to public business on Sunday; he did
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1854. Mil. LINCOLN S HOME.(From a photograph taken by the author in 1890.) not wish to have people call upon him on that day; but the two Sena-tors had an important matter in hand: the Nebraska Bill, which Doug-las proposed to lay before the Senate, and which, if passed, wouldrepeal the Compromise of 1820. The President was ready tolisten to their plea. Yes, I will do all that I can to secure its pas-sage, his welcome words. The sun went down on May 8, 1854, with cannon thundering uponCapitol Hill, in Washington, celebrating the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, carried through Congress by Douglas, Pierce, Davis, and CONFLICT BETWEEN FREEDOM AND SLAVERY, 141 the slave-holders, opening to slavery a region of country larger thanthe original thirteen States of the Union. Just what motives animated Douglas to violate his pledges neverwill be known. Not many people thought him to have been sincere inhis declarations, but believed he was influenced l)y an ardent desire tobe President, an

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