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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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ress it was a quiet time; but always, except that, thecontests in which I have been prominent have been marked with greatrancor.() Once more Mr. Lincoln was sitting with the telegraph operator dur-ing the evening to receive despatches regarding the Presidential elec-tion. The Union majority in Philadelphia will be 10,000, the messagefrom Mr. Forney. This was much beyond what Mr. Lincoln had an-ticipated. I reckon Forney is a little excited, he said. We shall have, telegraphed Mr. Felton, 15,000 majority in Bal-timore, and 5000 in the State. All hail, free Maryland! It came from the city where, in 1861, the President - elect was tohave been assassinated. Mr. Henry Winter Davis, of Baltimore, wasan ardent Pepublican, but had opposed Mr. Lincoln, and had failed ofa re-election to Congress. I am glad, said Mr. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, thathe has been defeated. He has maliciously assailed the navy for thelast two years. I cannot quite agree with you, said Mr. Lincoln. You have
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RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT. 467 more of the feeling of personal resentment than I. Perhaps I have toolittle of it; but I never thought it paid. A man has no time to spendhalf his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me I never re-member the past against him.(°) Mr. Stanton, Mr. Dana, Assistant Secretary of War, and Mr. Eckert,who had charge of the telegraph, were present. Dana, said Mr. Lincoln, have you ever read any of ReverendPetroleum Y. Nasbys letters ? No, Mr. President, I have only had time to glance at them, butthey seem to be quite funny. Well, let me read a specimen. The President thereupon took ayellow-covered pamphlet from his pocket and read one of Kasbys let-ters, written some weeks before the election. Mr. Stanton viewed theproceeding with an impatience which he did not try to conceal; butMr. Lincoln went on reading and laughing, stopping long enough tolisten to the reading of the election returns, and then resuming Nasby,Mr. Chase and Mr. Whitelaw Reid entered the

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