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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (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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of the Mon-roe doctrine. He desired — so the newspapersaverred — that the Caribbean Sea should be declared an American lake, and nothing so delighted him as to pull the beard of the British lion. These topics, while they furnished themes for campaign speeches, for the present led to no practical legislation. In his position as chair-man of the Senate Committee on Territories, however, he had control of kindred measures of present and vital interest to the people of theWest; namely, the opening of new routes of travel and emigration, and of new territories for settlement. An era of wonder had just dawned, connecting itself directly with these subjects.The acquisition of California and the discovery of gold had turned the eyes of the whole civil-ized world to the Pacific coast. Plains and * App. Globe of 1851-2, p. 68. t Douglas, Senate speech, March 13, 1850. App.Globe, Vol. XXII., pt. I., pp. 369 to 372. t Douglas, Springfield speech, October 23, 1849.Illinois Register. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 693
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ELI WHITNEY (1821), AGED FIFTY-FIVE. mountains were swarming with adventurers and emigrants. Oregon, Utah, New Mexico, and Minnesota had just been organized, and were in a feeble way contesting the sudden fame of the Golden State. The Western border was astir, and wild visions of lands and cities and mines and wealth and power were disturbing the peaceful dreams of the pioneer in his fron-tier cabin, and hurrying him off on the long, romantic quest across the continent. Hitherto, stringent Federal laws had kept settlers and unlicensed traders out of the In-dian territory, which lay beyond the western boundaries of Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa, and which the policy of our early PresidentsVol. XXXITI.—S8. fixed upon as the final asylum of the red men retreating before the irresistible advance of white settlers. But now the uncontrollable stream of emigration had broken into and through this reservation, creating in a few years well-defined routes of travel to New Mexico,Utah, California, and Oregon.

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