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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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, chaffing their playmates. Tad stood erect, and welcomedthe committee by shouting Hooray ! Both boys were brimmingover with life. The committee entered the house and passed intothe parlor, where Mr. Lincoln received them, Mr. Ashman, presi-dent of the convention, made a brief address. The reply was equallybrief. The formality ended, and all restraint was gone. Smiles rippledupon Mr. Lincolns face as he then addressed William D. Kelley, ofPennsylvania. You are a tall man. Judge Kelley. What is your height ? Six feet three. I beat YOU, said Mr. Lincoln ; I am six feet four without myhigh-heeled boots on. •Pennsylvania bows to Illinois. I am glad that we have found acandidate for the Presidencv whom we can look u)) to, for we have been 198 LIFE OF ABKAHAM LINCOLN. informed that there were only little giants in Illinois, the gracefulallusion to Mr. Douglas. A few moments before, Mr. Lincoln, under the constraint of for-mality, was like a school-boy making his first declamation. The un-
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HANNIBAL HAMLIN. NOMINATED FOR THE PRESIDENCY. 199 natural dignitywhich had beenassumed laidaside, conversa-tion becamegeneral. Mrs. Lin-coln will bepleased to seeyou in the oth-er room, gen-tlemen. Youwill be thirstyafter your longjourney. Youw^ill find some-thing refresh-ing in the li-brary. In the li-brary wereseveral hundredvolumes rangedupon shelves,two globes (oneterrestrial, the other celestial), a plain table, a pitcher of cold water and glasses, butno wines nor liquors. You did not find any great spread of liquors, I take it, the remarkof a citizen of Springfield the next morning. No, my reply. Thereby hangs a little story: When we knew you were on yourway, a number of us called on Mr. Lincoln and said that in all proba-bility some of the members of the committee would need some refresh-ment, wines or liquors. I havent any in the house, he said. We willfurnish them. Gentlemen, I cannot allow you to do what I will notdo myself, the reply. But that was not the end of it. Some o

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