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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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that, although it turned out better thanI expected, I have hardly yet, at the distanceof ten hours, become calm. I tell you, Speed,our forebodings, for which you and I are pecul-iar, are all the worst sort of nonsense. I fan-cied from the time I received your letter ofSaturday that the one of Wednesday wasnever to come, and yet it did come, and, whatis more, it is perfectly clear, both from its toneand handwriting, that . . . you had obviously thing earthly can realize. But before long aletter came from Speed, who had settled withhis black-eyed Kentucky wife upon a well-stocked plantation, disclaiming any furtherfellowship of misery and announcing the be-ginnings of that life of uneventful happinesswhich he led ever after. His peace of mindhas become a matter of course ; he dismissesthe subject in a line, but dilates, with a newplanters rapture, upon the beauties and at-tractions of his farm. Lincoln frankly answersthat he cares nothing about his farm. I can 3S4 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. :..:
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chief gem of my character;that gem I lost, how and whereyou know too well. I havenot yet regained it; and untilI do I cannot trust myself inany matter of much impor-tance. I believe now, thathad you understood my caseat the time as well as I un-derstood yours afterwards, bythe aid you would have givenme I should have sailedthrough clear; but that doesnot afford me confidence tobegin that, or the like of that,again. Still, he was nearingthe end of his doubts and self-torturing sophistry. A lastglimpse of his imperious curi-osity, kept alive by saucyhopes and fears, is seen in hisletter to Speed of the 5th ofOctober. He ventures, witha genuine timidity, to ask a question whichwe may believe has not often been asked byone civilized man of another, with the hopeof a candid answer, since marriages werecelebrated with ring and book. I want toask you a close question—Are you now, infar happier than you ever feeling as well as judgment, glad you are mar-I am not going beyond ried as you are

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