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Title: The true Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slaves Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia London : J.B. Lippincott
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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ed him not to show it to Mr. Stanton. Thereis no doubt that he felt that Mr. Stanton had beenguilty of professional discourtesy in refusing to insistthat the court hear Lincoln as well as himself, believingthat this concession would have been granted if thedemand had been pressed, or if Mr. Stanton had pro-posed that the time allowed for argument be divided.Mr. Stanton was not unaware of Lincolns wishes, forthey were fully explained to him by Mr. Harding, whourged him to give Lincoln an opportunity to speak,but, being the senior counsel in the case, he assignedMr. Harding, who was a patent expert, to submit thetechnical side of the case, and asssumed the entireresponsibility of making the legal argument himself. This incident is particularly interesting in connectionwith the future relations between the two men, and it iscertain that Lincoln was profoundly impressed with Mr.Stantons ability in the presentation of his case. Thematter was never alluded to by either during their long 1(^
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Copyright, 1900, by McClure, Phillips & Co. ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN THE SUMMER OF 1860 From a negative taken for M. C. Tuttle, of St. Paul, Minnesota, forlocal use in the presidential campaign THE LEADER OF THE SPRINGFIELD BAR and intimate association at Washington. A younglawyer from Rockford who had studied with Lincolnwas in Cincinnati at the time and attended the trial.When the court adjourned after Stantons argumentthey walked together to their hotel. Mr. Emerson saysthat Lincoln seemed dejected, and, turning to him sud-denly, exclaimed in an impulsive manner,— Emerson, I am going home to study law. * Why, I exclaimed, Mr. Lincoln, you stand at thehead of the bar in Illinois now! What are you talkingabout? Ah, yes, he said, I do occupy a good positionthere, and I think I can get along with the way thingsare done there now. But these college-trained men,who have devoted their whole lives to study, are comingWest, dont you see? And they study their cases aswe never do. They have g

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