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Title: The real Lincoln : a portrait
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Co.
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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was the first candidatefor President that the city of Springfield had ever shelteredthere were, therefore, no precedents, indicating the re-quirements of the occasion, to guide him or his friends. Ina worldly sense Lincoln was of limited means, his ac-cumulations after a quarter of a century at the bar neverhaving exceeded ten thousand dollars. He was therefore illconstituted to bear, unaided, the burdensome expenseswhich a campaign for the presidential office necessarily en-tailed. That being the case I venture in this connection togive space to a reminiscence of Lincoln I heard in Spring-field. It is so illuminative and affords such an insight intoLincolns personal connection with the campaign of i860,it cannot well be omitted. It is a recollection of the lateJohn W. Bunn, who was a close friend of Lincoln and oneof his political lieutenants in Springfield. The statementwritten and delivered to me by Mr. Bunn is as follows: Shortly after Mr. Lincolns nomination for President in May,
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