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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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be said to be itsbody, and its material activities itsblood, so patriotism may be said to bethe vital breath of a nation. When pa-triotism dies the nation dies, and its re-sources as well as its territory go toother peoples with stronger vitality. Patriotism can in no way be moreeffectively cultivated than by studyingand commemorating the achievementsand virtues of our great men—the menwho have lived and died for the nation,who have advanced its prosperity, in-creased its power, added to its glory. Inour brief history the United States canboast of many great men, and theachievement by Its sous of many greatdeeds; and if we accord the first rank toWashington as founder, so we must un-hesitatingly give to Lincoln second placeas preserver and regenerator of Amerl-can liberty. So far, however, from beingopposed to subordinating either to theother, the popular heart has alreadycanonized these two as twin heroes litour national pantheon, as twin stars Inthe firmament of our national fame.
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WHAT HPT VITIJ : HE VXWAKLEn s-3 BtDilBM AND SiWHOUGHT BOR TO TUB VIC 1HY own, came out a private. He rode tothe hostile frontier on horseback, andtrudged home on foot. His storewinked out. *His surveyors compassand chain, with which he was earninga scanty living, were sold for debt. Hewas defeated in, bis first campaign forthe legislature; defeated in his first at-tempt to be nominated for congress;defeated in his application to be ap-pointed commissioner of the generalland office;!defeated for the senate inthe Illinois legislature of 1854, when hehad forty-five votes to begin with, byTrumbull, who had only five votes tobegin with; defeated in the legislatureof 1858, by an antiquated apportion-ment, when his joiut debates with Doug-las had won him a popular pluralityof nearly four thousand in a Democraticstate; defeated in the nomination forvice-president on the Fremont ticketin 1S56, when a favorable nod from ahalf dozen wire workers would havebrought him success. Failures? Not so.

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