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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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ows not where. War and victories were then something new tothe American people. General Taylor was nom-inated in 1848 as the Whig candidate for thepresidency. General Cass was the Democraticcandidate. General Taylor had said, in accept-ing the nomination,— Upon the subject of the tariff, the currency,the improvement of our great highways, rivers,lakes, and harbors, the will of the people, as ex-pressed through their representatives in Congress,ought to be respected and carried out by the ex-ecutive. Mr. Lincoln, pithily and approvingly comment-ing upon this, said, The people say to GeneralTaylor, If you are elected, shall we have a na-tional bank? He answers, Your will, gentle-men, not mine. What about the tariff? Sayyourselves. Shall our rivers and harbors be im-proved? Just as you please. H you desire abank, and alteration in the tariff, internal im-provements, any or all, I will not hinder you;if you do not desire them, I will not attemptto force them on you. Send up your members
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CAPTAIN LINCOLN DEFENDING THE INDIANS ABRAHAM LIXXOLX 41 to Congress from the various districts, with opin-ions according to your own; and if they are forthese measures, or any of them, I shall havenothing to oppose; if they are not for them, 1shall not, by any appliances whatever, attemptto dragoon them into their accomplishment. In a certain sense, ^Ir. Lincoln continued,and to a certain extent, the President is a rep-resentative of the people. He is elected by themas Congress is. But can he, in the nature ofthings, know the wants of the people as well asthree hundred other men coming from all the va-rious localities of the nation? H so, where isthe propriety of having Congress? This was the platform upon which Air. Lin-coln ever stood. It was understood that GeneralTaylor was opposed to the ^Mexican war. Hecertainly advocated an offensive instead of a de-fensive attitude. Mr. Lincoln cordially support-ed him in preference to General Cass, the Demo-cratic candidate. He advocated the

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