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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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Lincolns Pioneer House on the Sangamon River.Built and Occupied by Himself. to become a candidate for the State Legislature. His ap-pearance in debate, and the favorable impression he made,settled the question of his candidacy for his friends. Hefelt that an election was an impossibility for him at thattime, but he undertook the canvass. It was the customthen for every candidate to stand on his own merits with-out the aid of a nominating convention. Mr. Lincoln at ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 21 this time was nominally a Jackson Democrat, thoughsome of his statements in his first campaign for office re-sembled very closely Whig utterances, and he will befound speedily to be on that side. He issued a manifesto to the people of SangamonCounty on the question of local improvements, propos-ing the improvement of the Sangamon River. He an-nounced himself in favor of usury laws which would limitthe rate of interest to be paid in the state. He was in fa-vor of education,and of the enactment of sundry la

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