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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
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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without concern, but yet with the forti-tude of resignation. He declared that he hadno dread of death, but he was still troubledby one fear, which was probably suggested tohim by the recollection of the magnificentconstitution with which he had started in life.That fear was not of death, but of the mode ofdying; he had a terrible ap))rehension that hislast hours would be hours of anguish in a longagonizing struggle between life and death ;this andthis only,hesaid, was the thought thatnow lay heavily on his mind. Dr. Jacksonexplained to him the nature of his maladyand the smooth and tranquil channel in whicJiit was to run, and assuretl him with a sagacitywhich did not admit of question, that in hislast hour he would die as quietly as an infantfalls asleep in its cradle. You give me in-finite relief, answered Clay. The chief terrorwhich death had for him vanished. Clav left not an enemy beliind him. JohnCaldwell Calhoun began his national careeras a member of the twelfth House of Repre-
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(engraved BV T. JOHNSON, AFTKK A IHOTOGRAril IW KOCKWCJOD, FHOM THE DAClUriRREOTYPE OWNED BY ALFRED HASSACK.) A FEIV WO Jin S ABOUT HENRY CLAY. 481 sentatives. He took his seat in Congress inNovember, 1811, just two days too late togive his vote for Henry Clay as Speaker. Calhoun was immediately drawn into theclosest relations with Clay, alike from admira-tion of his talents and agreement with hismode of treating the great questions of thatday. He always remembered this earliest partof his public service with perfect satisfaction.It was from him I learned that he and Claywere of one mind on our foreign relations,and that for their zeal in support of the honorof the country against the long-continuedaggressions of Britain, they two and othersof the House, of whom he named only Bibb,were known at the time by the name of thewar mess. Twelve years later, the two became es-tranged from each other, and the parts whichthey severally took corresponded to the dif-ferences in their character. C

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