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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
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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esident. It was the beginning of his many sorrows.The first hostile shot had struck into his own household, as it were, andtaken one w^hom he tenderly loved. FIRST MONTHS OF THE WAR. 259 We must remember that Mr. Lincoln was not, like William LloydGarrison, an Abolitionist. Mr. Garrison advocated a dissolution of theUnion because slavery was wrong; Mr. Lincoln believed the Union wasthe greatest boon in civil government which had ever come to the hu-man race. He was confronted by a vital question: how to keep Ken-tucky from leaving the Union. It was his native State. Some of hisdearest friends resided there. Governor Magoffin was doing what hecould to bring about the secession of the State. The people were dividedin sentiment. The Legislature adopted a resolution affirming armedneutrality as the position Avhich the State would maintain. Citizens ofLouisville passed resolutions denouncing the President for attempting tobring the seceding States back into the Union. At the same time they
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THOMAS H. HICKS. 260 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. declared the Union ought to be preserved, but maintained it was the dutyof Kentucky to oppose the attempt to make war upon a seceding State! Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subdu-ing her sister Southern States, said Governor MagoflBn, in his reply to the call of the President for troops. The Secessionists were organizing. The Knights of the GoldenCircle, as they called themselves, were drilling in the streets of Louis-ville. The members of the Working-mens Association in that cityknew that slavery was antagonistic to free labor. They succeeded inelecting J. M. Dolph as mayor, who was loyal to the Union. TheSecessionists became very bold and arrogant. The Union men werethreatened with assassination. Not intimidated but emboldened, theyformed a Union Club. The members swore unconditional loyalty to the Union. Their ritual was compiled from the sayings of Washington,Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay. The great statesman o

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