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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century 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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arded his famous rival, and we regret thatone of his biographers has taken this injuriousview of the matter. But we think that fewmen have ever lived who were more free fromthose degrading passions than Abraham Lin-coln, and the personal reprobation with whichhe always visited the public acts of Douglasarose from his sincere conviction that the manwas essentially without fixed political morals.They had met for the first time in 1834 atVandalia, where Douglas was busy in gettingthe circuit attorneyship away from John J.Hardin. He held it only long enough to se-cure a nomination to the Legislature in 1836.He went there to endeavor to have the capi-tal moved to Jacksonville, where he lived, buthe gave up the fight for the purpose of hav-ing himself appointed Register of the LandOffice at Springfield. He held this place as ameans of being nominated for Congress thenext year; he was nominated and defeated.In 1840 he was engaged in another scheme 372 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
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(FROM A PAINTING BY HENRY INMAN, IN POSSESSION OF BENJAMIN HARRISON.) to which we will give a moments attention,which resulted in giving him a seat on theSupreme Bench of the State, which he usedmerely as a perch from which to get intoCongress. There had been a difference of opinion inIllinois for some years as to whether the Con-stitution, which made voters of all white maleinhabitants of six months residence, meant toinclude aliens in that category. As the alienswere nearly all Democrats, that party insistedon their voting, and the Whigs objected. Thebest lawyers in the State were Whigs, and soit happened that most of the judges were ofthat complexion. A case was made up fordecision and decided adversely to the aliens,who appealed it to the Supreme Court. Thiscase was to come on at the June term in 1840,and the Democratic counsel, chief amongwhom was Mr. Douglas, were in some anxiety,as an unfavorable decision would lose themabout ten thousand alien votes in the Presi-dential electi

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