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Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Chicago : Illustrated Booklet Company
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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iously depart from it on this occa-sion It is pure Adams ale, from the spring. Taking a tumbler he touched it to his lips; andall his guests followed his example. The Presi-dent subsequently related the following singularincident as having taken place at that time:— A very singular occurrence took place theday I was nominated at Chicago, of which I amreminded tonight. In the afternoon of the day,returning home from down town, I went upstairsto Mrs. Lincolns sitting-room. FeeHng some-what tired, I lay down upon a couch in the room,directly opposite a bureau, upon which was alooking-glass. As I reclined, my eyes fell uponthe glass, and I saw distinctly fiKo images ofmyself, exactly alike, except that one was a lit-tle paler than the other. I arose, and lay downagain with the same result. It made me quiteuncomfortable for a few moments; but. somefriends coming in, the matter passed out of mymind. The next day, while walking in the street, Iwas suddenly reminded of the circumstance; and
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LINCOLN IN 1864, AGED 55 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 81 the disagreeable sensation produced by it re-turned. I determined to go home, and place my-self in the same position; and, if the same effectwas produced, I would make up my mind that itwas the natural result of some principle of re-fraction or optics which I did not understand,and dismiss it. I tried the experiment with alike result; and, as I said to myself, accountingfor it on some principle unknown to me, it ceasedto trouble me. But, some time ago, I tried to produce thesame effect Jicrc by arranging a glass and couchin the same position, without effect. jNIy wifewas somewhat worried about it. She thought itwas a sign that I was to be elected to a secondterm of offtce, and that the paleness of one ofthe faces was an omen that I should not see lifethrough the second term. At the time of his nomination ^Ir. Lincolnwas fifty-two years of age. There was then butlittle doubt that he would be elected. Crowdsflocked to pay their homage to one,

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