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Title: Story of the Hutchinsons (tribe of Jesse)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Hutchinson, John W. (John Wallace), 1821-1908 Mann, Charles E. (Charles Edward), b. 1857 Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subjects: Hutchinson family Hutchinson Family (Singers) Singers Abolitionists
Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard
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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the fire^here wrongs expire;Xor spares the handThat from the laudUproots the ancient evil. Then let the selfish lip be dumb, And hushed the breath of sighing;Before the joy of peace, must comeThe pains of purifying.God give us graceEach in his placeTo bear his lot,And, murmuring not,Endure and wait and labor ! The election of Lincoln, and tlie strong sentimentfor freedom and union that made it possible, Avere fire-brands to the spirit of secession that had been so longsmouldering in the South. For many months the dis-loj^al cabinet of Buchanan had been plotting to givethe Slave States the advantage in the impending con-flict, by storing munitions of war and supplies in theSouth, while the pussillanimous president looked help-lessly on. I remember singing in Springfield duringthis period, and visiting the armory. The people therewere all quiet, not a word Avas spoken, but many ofthem Avere packing guns to send aAvay. I asked thereason, and all the answer I got Avas that it was done at
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ABRAHAIVI LIXCOl.X — (p. 370) IN WAR TIME. 371 the command of the Secretary of War, John B. Floyd,and probably they were to be used to fight Indians. Iwas suspicious of their reticence, and thought the pub-lic should know of the circumstance, and so acquaintedthe Springfield Republican with what I had seen. To the minds of all but the over-sanguine, the elec-tion of Lincoln meant secession, and secession meantwar. It was a peculiar fact, however, that even aftermany States had held conventions and formally passedresolutions withdrawing from the Union, a desire toavoid a conflict seemed to blind the eyes of the peopleto the real situation. I, however, was convinced thatwar was inevitable when Fremont was defeated byBuchanan. During the campaign that had resulted in the elec-tion of Lincoln, I had been very industrious in his be-half. Wherever I was, in railroad trains, at hotels, atthe door of concert halls, on the street — in fact, at anyplace where I could get a group of hearers,

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