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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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other pillars hewn from thesame solid quarry of sober reason. Passion hashelped us, but can do so no more. It will in futurebe our enemy. Reason—cold, calculating, unim-passioned reason—must furnish all the materialsfor our future support and defense. Let thesematerials be moulded into general intelligence,sound morality, and in particular, a reverence forthe Constitution and the laws. * * * Upon theselet the proud fabric of freedom rest as the rock ofits basis, and as truly as has been said of the onlygreater institution, The gates of hell shall notprevail against it. In time Lincolns style changed : he became moreeloquent but with less gaudy ornamentation. Hegrew in oratorical power, dropping gradually thealliteration and rosy metaphor of youth, until hewas able at last to deliver that grandest of allorations—the Gettysburg address. One evening, while the usual throng of loungerssurrounded the inviting fireplace in Speeds store,the conversation turned on political matters. The
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KO u z«j 2 H w PS THE LIFE OF LINCOLN. 183 disputants waxed warm and acrimonious as thediscussion proceeded. Business being over for theday, I strolled back and seating myself on a keglistened with eager interest to the battle going onamong these would-be statesmen. Douglas, I rec-ollect, was leading on the Democratic side. He hadalready learned the art of dodging in debate, butstill he was subtle, fiery, and impetuous. Hecharged the Whigs with every blunder and politicalcrime he could imagine. No vulnerable spotseemed to have escaped him. At last, with greatvehemence, he sprang up and abruptly made a chal-lenge to those who differed with him to discuss thewhole matter publicly, remarking that, This storeis no place to talk politics. In answer to Doug-lass challenge the contest was entered into. Ittook place in the Presbyterian Church. Douglas,Calhoun, Lamborn, and Thomas represented theDemocrats; and Logan, Baker, Browning, and Lin-coln, in the order named, presented the Whig sideof

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