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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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to enter into a mar-riage which he dreadedsimply because he thoughthe had given a young ladyreason to think that he hadsuch intentions. While weadmit that this would havebeen an irremediable error,we cannot but wonder atthe nobleness of the char-acter to which it was pos-sible. In this vastly more se-rious matter, which was,we may say at once, thecrucial ordeal of his life,the same invincible truth-fulness, the same innategoodness, the same horrorof doing a wrong, are combined with an ex-quisite sensibility and a capacity for sufferingwhich mark him as a man picked out amongten thousand. His habit of relentless self-searching reveals to him a state of feeling whichstrikes him with dismay ; his simple and in-flexible veracity communicates his trouble andhis misery to the woman whom he loves; hisfreedom, when he has gained it, yields himnothing but an agony of remorse and humili-ation. He could not shake off his pain, likemen of cooler heads and shallower hearts. It ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 38i
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<&*■))& c ^°*r PHOTOGRAPH SENT TO MRS. LUCY G. SPEED. (IN POSSESSION OF J. B. SPEED.) took fast hold of him and dragged him intoawful depths of darkness and torture. Theletter to Stuart, which we have given, showshim emerging from the blackest period of thattime of gloom. Immediately after this, heaccompanied his close friend and confidant,Joshua F. Speed,to Kentucky, where, in awayso singular that no writer of fiction would dareto employ the incident, he became almostcured of his melancholy, and came back toIllinois and his work again. Mr. Speed was a Kentuckian, carrying ona general mercantile business in Springfield—a brother of the distinguished lawyer, JamesSpeed, of Louisville, who afterwards becameAttorney-General of the United States. Hewas one of those men who seem to have toa greater extent than others the genius offriendship, the Pythias, the Pylades, the Ho-ratios of the world. It is hardly too much tosay that he w

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