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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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coming back sometime and then well go right onpracticing law as if nothing had happened. If Lincoln had had no other career than as a lawyer inCentral Illinois, he would have occupied a unique placeamong the great lawyers of the state. But his mind wasalways at work upon the higher problems of the nationallife. He declined to run for congress in 1848 in favor ofStephen T. Logan, who suffered defeat. He declined thegovernorship of Oregon, preferring to remain in closertouch with national affairs in Illinois, than he would beif he removed to that distant region. In 1850, he again declined to be a candidate for con-gress, though he was strongly urged. He was coming tothe opinion that the sectional agitation between the Northand South was beyond the skill of politicians to settleby the methods that had been and were still, beingtried. He had hoped that time would heal the animosi-ties that threatened the existence of the union and theprinciples of free government on American soil. In con-
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Lincolns Home at Springfield.In front of the house stands the tree planted by Lincoln previous to 1850. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 45 versation with intimate friends, in 1850, he stated that,the time is coming when we must all be Democrats orAbolitionists. Though he acquiesced in the measuresof the Whig party, which were favorable to compromiseto avert strife, he spoke out his own conviction as to theinjustice of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, and seemedto feel disheartened as to any improvement as thingswere going. In 1852, his fellow citizens at Springfield chose him todeliver a eulogy upon the life and sendees of Henry Clay.This discourse was not remarkable in itself, save as itwas the occasion to Mr. Lincoln for emphasizing theopinion of Mr. Clay in regard to slavery and the propermethod of putting an end to it. Mr. Lincoln agreedwith him in his aversion to the institution and the advis-ability of gradual emancipation by the voluntary actionof the people of the slave states, and the transp

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