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Title: The heroic life of Abraham Lincoln the great emancipator. Illustrated in black and white and with colored plates
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Boston, De Wolfe, Fiske & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ifes advice he refused thebait. Of Lincolns family of four sons, Robert Todd, the Secretary of War underGarfield and Arthur, is the only survivor. Edward Baker, the second, died ininfancy. The third died in his fathers Presidency, and the fourth died at theage of nineteen, after his fathers assassination. His father lived to see his speechifying son one of the best knownlawyers of the State, and was helped by him as soon as his load of debt waslifted, and other members of the family he helped from his frugal means. In aletter to his step-brother Abraham wrote, At the various times when I havehelped you a little, you have said to me, We can get along very well now,but in a short time I find you in the same difficulty. His care for his step-mother is seen in a letter to his step-brother. He says, The eastern forty acres I intend to keep for mother while she lives. If youwill not cultivate it, it will rent for enough to support her. He urges him too to work as the onlv cure for his case.
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THE BLACK HAWK WAR. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 17 LINCOLN THE LAWYER It has already been said that Lincoln disdained all legal quibbles ; herelied always on the justice of his case, and won his suit by close argument,depending on the idea of justice in the jury. For instance, an old man named Case brought suit for a note given by the Snow boys for three yoke of oxen and a breaking plough. The defenceset up was a plea of infancy. Lincoln admitted the plea, but brought out thatthe Snow boys were still using the oxen and the plough, and then addressingthe jury said: Gentlemen, the Judge will tell you what your own sense of justice hasalready told you, that these Snow boys, if they were mean enough to plead thebaby act, when they came to be men would have taken the oxen and plough back;they cannot go back on their contract, and also keep what the note was given for. The jury without leaving their seats gave a verdict for Lincolns client. Lincoln had several important slavery cases. A very notable on

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