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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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This the insiders heard, and to it they replied. Thus deep called to deep with such afrenzy of sympathetic enthusiasm, that even the thundering salute of cannon was unheard by many on the platform. When this burst of enthusiasm had expended itself, it was moved that the nomination should be unanimous; and it was made so. Mr. Lincoln was at this time at Springfield, two hundred miles distant, anxiously awaiting the result of the ballotings. He was in the office of The Springfield Journal, receiving the telegraphic dis-patches. At last a messenger came in with a dis-patch in his hand and announced,— The Convention has made a nomination, and Mr. Seward is—the second man on the list. The joyful scene which ensued with Mr. Lincolns friends must be imagined. When the excitement had a little subsided, he said, There is a little woman on Eighth Street who has some interest in this matter; and, putting the telegram into his pocket, he walked home. Little did he then dream of the weary years of toil
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN 11 and care, and the bloody death, to which that telegram doomed him; and as little did he dream that he was to render services to his country which would fix upon him the eyes of the whole civilized world, and which would give him a place in the affections and reverence of his countrymen, second only, if second, to that of Washington. The following day a committee of the Convention waited upon him with the announcement of his nomination. As it was known that they were to come, some of Air. Lincolns friends sent in several hampers of wine for their entertainment. But he was not only a temperance man, but a total-abstinence man. Resolved not to allow that new temptation to induce him to swerve from his principles, he returned the gift with kindest words of gratitude for the favor intended. j\Ir. Lincoln received the delegation at the door of his house, and conducted them into his parlor. Governor Morgan of New York, in appropriate phrase, informed him that he had been unanimou

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