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Title: Complete works of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901, ed Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint ed Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909 Fish, Daniel, 1848-1924
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : F.D. Tandy 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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aham Lincoln (July 27 there be doubt as to which of our divisions willget our candidate, is there no doubt as to whichof your candidates will get your party? Divided Gangs of Hogs! I have heard some things from New York;and if they are true, one might well say of yourparty there, as a drunken fellow once said whenhe heard the reading of an indictment for hog-stealing. The clerk read on till he got to andthrough the words, did steal, take, and carryaway ten boars, ten sows, ten shoats, and tenpigs, at which he exclaimed, Well, by golly,that is the most equally divided gang of hogs Iever did hear of! If there is any other gangof hogs more equally divided than the Demo-crats of New York are about this time, I havenot heard of it. Lincolns Home in IllinoisLog Cabin Built by Abraham Lincoln and hisFather in 1831 on Goose Neck Prairie, ColesCounty, Illinois. It was occupied until iSgi,ivhen it was purchased by the Lincoln Log CabinAssociation for exhibition at the Chicago JForldsFair, i8gj.
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1848J Worcester Speech 89 * Report of Speech Delivered at Worcester,Mass., on Sept. 12, 1848 ^ From the Boston Advertiser. MR. KELLOGG then introduced to themeeting the Hon. Abraham Lincoln,Whig member of Congress from Illi-nois, a representative of free soil, Mr. Lincoln has a very tall and thin figure,with an intellectual face, showing a searchingmind, and a cool judgment. He spoke in a clearand cool, and very eloquent manner, for an hourand a half, carrying the audience with him inhis able arguments and brilliant illustrations—only interrupted by warm and frequent ap-plause. He began by expressing a real feel-ing of modesty in addressing an audience this■side of the mountains, a part of the countrywhere, in the opinion of the people of his sec-tion, everybody was supposed to be instructed 1 It is to be regretted that none of Lincolns speeches, madein his canvass of New England in 1848, are preserved as actu-ally delivered. He spoke in Boston, Cambridge, Dorchester,Chelsea and o

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