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Title: The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, et cetera
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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nt Lincoln. Accord-ing to a letter of Secretary Chase to Mr. Carpenter, Mr. Lincoln, before reading his manu-script of the proclamation, said, in substance : I have considered everything that has beensaid to me about the expediency of emancipation, and have made up my mind to issue thisproclamation, and I have invited you to come together, not to discuss what is to be done,but to have you hear what I have written and to get your suggestions about form and style;adding: I have thought it all over, and have made a promise that this should be done tomyself and to God. Secretary Chase adds: The picture well represents that momentwhich followed the reading of the proclamation. It puts the two members who thoroughlyadvi-sed and heartily believed in the measure on the right of Mr. Lincoln ; the others (who,though they all acquiesced, and Mr. Seward, who, particularly, made important suggestions,had hitherto doubted or advised delay or even opposed) on the left. Welles SmithSeward Blair Bates
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BEFORE THE CABINET, SEPTEMBER 20, 1862now in the Capitol at Washington. TirF-P°?T^^^ completion, the painting was exhibited for two days in the East Room of theWhite House. After havmg been exhibited through the country, it was purchased by MrsHilizabeth Thompson, of New York, and presented to the re-United States Congress unani-mously acceptmg the gift and yoting Mrs. Thompson the thanks of Congress, the highesthonor eyer paid a woman in our country, and setting apart Lincolns birthday, February 121878, for the acceptance of the painting. On that day both houses of Congress adjournedm honor of the celebration ; the painting was eleyated oyer the chair of the Speaker of theMouse of Representatiyes ; Garfield, then a member of Congress, made the speech of presen-tation on behalf of Mrs. Thompson, while the Hon. Alexander Stephens, former yice-presi-aent ot the C onfederacy, who, in a famous speech at the beginning of the war, had declaredblavery is the cornerstone of the new Confedera

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