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Title: Lincoln : by friend and foe
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903 Hall, A. Oakey (Abraham Oakey), 1826-1898 Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886 Cole, Robert J., ed
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: London New York : Gold Medal Library
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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e enmasse and gave them, with waving ofhats and handkerchiefs, and with thewildest enthusiasm.) In their privateconversations they freely acknowledgedthat they preferred some other man thanMr. Lincoln. It was natural, of course,that those who held place under himshould desire his nomination. But thegreat operating cause that produced hisnomination was this, that there were menin the army and others surrounding himwho did not dare to let him go into pri-vate life; who did not dare to be broughtback under the jurisdiction of the lawsof the land, the judgment of their peers.(Cheers.) The nomination was made be-cause men who had enriched themselvesby unworthy means from the treasury ofthe country feared to be brought to thataccount to which they will be broughtwhen our Government is restored and ourUnion reinstated. (Cheers.) Mr. Lin-coln and his administration will not re-peal the law that denies you any remedyagainst wrongs done by them to our per-son or property, because they know that
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BY FRIEND AND FOE 85 to do this is to bring themselves to judg-ment. They will not pursue a course thatwill give us a restored Union, because arestored Union reinstates the authority oflaw, and there would be an investigationof the frauds and failures that, in an un-usual degree, have marked the conductof affairs during the last three and a halfyears. I do not mean to say that the admin-istration is to be condemned because,under circumstances so unusual as thosewhich have existed during this war, badmen have taken advantage of the con-fusion in affairs to do acts of wrong, butI do complain that when these wrongs aredone the Government deliberately passeslaws that protect the doer and thusmakes wrong-doing its own act. More-over, in an election like this, when theGovernment is spending such an enor-mous amount of money, and the liabilityto speculation is so great, the administra-tion that will say to contractors, as hasbeen openly said in circulars, You havehad a good contract, out of

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