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Title: Abraham Lincoln : the true story of a great life
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891 Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930, joint author White, Horace, 1834-1916
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton 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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s and humanity cares, hereflected, and if they do not they surely have not read their Biblearight. 178 THE LIFE OF LINCOLN. toral college Lincoln received 180 votes, Brecken-ridge 72, Bell 39, and Douglas 12.* Mr. Lincolnhaving now been elected, there remained, beforetaking up the reins of government, the details of hisdeparture from Springfield, and the selection of acabinet. * Lincoln electors were chosen in seventeen of the free States, asfollows : Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con-necticut, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Oregon; and inone State,—New Jersey,—owing to a fusion between Democrats,Lincoln secured four and Douglas three of the electors. Alabama,Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Missis-sippi, North, and South Carolina, and Texas went for Breckenridge;Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia for Bell; while Douglas securedonly one entire State—Missouri.
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L^-^^lv.^;^ ^>-A.«rv^/ ^4!!^^^^-^ Sh^^^: ^-^ From a pltotog:raph by llesler, Chicago, ISIJO. CHAPTER VII. The election over, Mr. Lincoln scarcely had timeenough to take a breath until another campaignand one equally trying, so far as a test of hisconstitution and nerves was concerned, as the onethrough which he had just passed, opened up beforehim. I refer to the siege of the cabinet-makers andoffice-seekers. It proved to be a severe and pro-tracted strain and one from which there seemed tobe no relief, as the President-elect of this renowneddemocratic Government is by custom and prece-dent expected to meet and listen to everybody whocalls to see him. Individuals, deputations, anddelegations, says one of Mr. Lincolns biographers, from all quarters pressed in upon him in a man-ner that might have killed a man of less robust con-stitution. The hotels of Springfield were filledwith gentlemen who came with light baggage andheavy schemes. The party had never been inoffice.

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