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Title: Biographies and stories of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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imself again — plainAbraham Lincoln — man of the people. Boston Journal reporter Charles Coffin tellsof Lincolns reception of the news of his selec-tion as a presidential candidate. At table we conversed about the courses and incidentsof the campaign, and his genial and simple-heartedway of expressing himself wmild hardly permit me toremember that he was a great man and a candidatefor the presidency of the United States. Carl Schurz, stumping for the Republicancause, describes one of his frequent strategymeetings with Lincoln Graphic art was powerless before a face that movedthrough a thousand delicate gradations of line andcontour... from the rollicking jollity- of laughter tothat serious, faraway look which with prophetic intui-tions beheld tin awful panorama of war. and heard thecry of oppression and suffering. There are manypictures of Lincoln; there is no portrait of him. John Nicolatj, Lincolns private secretary, de-scribes Lincoln on the eve of his election to thepresidency
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master of a divided house commander in chief Old Abe delivered the greatest speech of the age. Itis backbone all over. The city bristles with bayonets.A spectator at Lincolns inauguration describestetter to his wife. His judgement like his perception, far outran theaverage mind. While others fretted and fumed atthings that were, all his inner consciousness was abroad in the wide realm of possibilities, busily search-ing out the dim and difficult path towards things tobe. John Nicolay talks of Lincoln during the first days of the Civil War ... and there is no way in which I can have any otherman put where I am, 1 am here. I must do the best Itan, and bear the responsibility of taking the coursewhich I feel I ought to take. Salmon Chase recalls Lincolns remarks priorto his reading of the Emancipation Proclama-tion to his cabinet He continued to the end receiving these swarms ofvisitors... Henry Wilson once remonstrated with himabout it: You will wear yourself out. He replied, withoni of

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