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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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and neverrefused in fact or appearance to do anything I asked him. 154 Abraham Lincoln (July i6 Call for Whig Convention, December (4?),1851 To the Whigs of IllinoisThe Whigs of the State of Illinois are respect-fully requested to meet in convention at Spring-field, on the fourth Monday of December next,to take into consideration such action as uponconsultation and deliberation may be deemednecessary, proper, and effective for the best in-terests of the party, and to secure a morethorough organization of the Whig party at anearly day. (Signed)Abraham Lincoln,J. T. Stuart,J. C. Conkling,H. O. Merriman,Geo. W. Meeker,J. O. Norton,Churchill Coffing,Joseph Gillespie,Isaac Hardy,Horace Miller,E. B. Washburne,Henry Watterman, Ezra Griffith,Samuel Haller,Joseph T. Eccles,Jas. W. Singleton,O. H. Browning,C. W. Craig,J. L. Wilson,B. G. Wheeler,H. D. Risley,Levi Davis,B. S. Edwards,And many others. Abraham Lincoln From (in Engraving by Samuel Sartahi afterMiniature from Life by /. Henry Broun.
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i852) Eulogy on Henry Clay 155 Eulogy on Henry Clay Delivered in the State House at Springfield, Illinois, July 16, 1852^ ON THE fourth day of July, 1776, the peo-ple of a few feeble and oppressed colo-nies of Great Britain, inhabiting a por-tion of the Atlantic coast of North America,publicly declared their national independence,and made their appeal to the justice of theircause and to the God of battles for the mainte-nance of that declaration. That people werefew in number and without resources, save onlytheir wise heads and stout hearts. Within thefirst year of that declared independence, andwhile its maintenance was yet problematical,—while the bloody struggle between those resoluterebels and their haughty would-be masters wasstill waging,—of undistinguished parents andin an obscure district of one of those coloniesHenry Clay was born. The infant nation andthe infant child began the race of life together.For three quarters of a century they have trav- 1 We are indebted foT a

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