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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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)eeds store, with thehickory logs blazing on the hearth, and the audience sitting on nail-casks and benches. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were soable in argument and keen at repartee that the store could not accom-modate those who came to hear them, and the meetings were held in
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PRESBYTEUIAN CHCKCH, SPRINGFIELD. the Presbyterian church. They took up the affair at Alton. It cameto the lot of Lincoln to deliver an address. lie chose for his theme The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions. He was twenty-eightyears of age. Seven years had passed since he entered the Statedriving an ox-team. lie had pulled an oar on the )\Iississippi, navi-gated the Sangamon, been a soldier in the Black Hawk War, store-keeper, land-surveyor, and legislator. The people listened wonderinglyto the opening sentences: In the great journal of lliiiigs happening under the sun, tlie xVmerican people findour account running iinder date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era. We findourselves in peaceful possession of the fairest portion of the earth as regards extent ofterritory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We find ourselves under the goveni-uient of a system of political iustilulious conducing more essentially to the ends of civil 98 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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