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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a character sketch
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Sheppard, Robert Dickinson, b. 1846 Adam, G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer), 1830-1912 Shepardson, Francis Wayland, 1862-1937. The life of Lincoln Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910. The early days of Abraham Lincoln
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Chicago : Union School Furnishing Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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IT is a far cry from a Kentucky cabin to the WhiteHouse at Washington, from the estate of a poor whitechild in the south to that of Chief Magistrate of theUnited States of America. Yet it is our task to showhow that distance was spanned in the life of AbrahamLincoln, and the story of it should be of the highest in-terest to every American youth. We are probably not sufficiently removed from thetimes of Abraham Lincoln to estimate him in his fullproportions. The greater part of the literature that hasbeen written concerning him, that is not absolutelyephemeral, has been written for a people who reverencedhim,and who would brook no other than a reverent hand-ling of the object of their devotion. Such jealousy, how-ever, was needless, for loving hands have written intel-ligently and judicially the story of his life, and of theunfolding of his character. They have written with theardor of personal friendship and almost in the heat of theexciting days when Lincoln stood as their champion a

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