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Title: Abraham Lincoln : the true story of a great life
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891 Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930, joint author White, Horace, 1834-1916
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York London : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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inished afterward in Tremont 294 THE LIFE OF LINCOLN. Temple, Boston; and it is a notable fact that on thesame evening, and from the same platform, William H.Seward also spoke, and made the only political speechhe ever delivered in Boston. Who could have dreamedthen that in Lincoln we were listening to the man whowas to be the future president of the United States,and to leave a reputation second only to that ofWashington! Mr. Lincoln moved his Boston audi-ence in much the same way I have described, butMr. Seward made the first speech, and was lookedupon as the chief star, of course. Sewards speechwas much more ambitious and comprehensive thanthat of Lincoln. The latter had not begun to treatbroad principles in the 1848 campaign. Mr. Sewardsargument was a triumph of intellect, after the mostcareful preparation. I dont think Mr. Lincoln hadever written his speech at all. He aimed at not muchmore than to be bright, effective and taking with hisaudience, and his success was perfect here.
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o XH CHAPTER XI. After the wedding of Lincoln and Miss Todd atthe Edwards mansion we hear but little of them asa married couple till the spring of 1843, when thehusband writes to his friend Speed, who had beenjoined to his black-eyed Fanny a little over a year,with regard to his life as a married man. Are youpossessing houses and lands,1 he writes, and oxenand asses and men-servants and maid-servants, andbegetting sons and daughters? We are not keep-ing house, but boarding at the Globe Tavern, whichis very well kept now by a widow lady of the nameof Beck. Our room (the same Dr. Wallace occupiedthere) and boarding only costs us four dollars aweek.,, Gaining a livelihood was slow and discour-aging business with him, for we find him in anotherletter apologizing for his failure to visit Kentucky, because, he says, I am so poor and make so lit-tle headway in the world that I drop back in amonth of idleness as much as I gain in a years sow-ing. But by dint of untiring efforts and the recog-

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