Abraham Lincoln (1897) (14591352767)

Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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d was affectionatelyreceived by the soldiers. General McClellan had no plan. With a heavyheart Mr. Lincoln returned to Washington. Shall we wonder that ■ he was depressed in spirit ? The people had expected great thingsfrom the Army of the Potomac, but it had accomplished nothing. Thetide of success which marked the opening of the campaign in the Westw^as offset by the failure in the East. The Copperheads, as they werecalled—the men who opposed the war—rejoiced over the state of affairs. You never can conquer the South, they said. Many who had sup-ported Mr. Lincoln began to question whether he had any serious in-tention of interfering with slavery. He had taken no notice of theaction of McClellan when in West Virginia, or of Ilalleck in Missouri,excluding- slaves from the lines of the Union armies. On the otherhand, he had set aside the proclamations of Fremont and that of Hun-ter, giving freedom to the slaves in their military departments. Yery PRELIMINARY TO EMANCIPATION. 32;
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EDWIN D. MORGAN. WAR GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK. few people comprehended the Presidents position. He had appealedto the members of Congress from the border Slave States to take actiontowards abolishing slavery in their respective States. Their indiffer-ence cut him to the heart. He would make one more effort. Hewould invite them to the AVhite House and address them personally.A^ery earnest his appeal: The incidents of war cannot be avoided. If it continues, as it must if the objectis not soon attained, the institution in your States will be extinguished by mere frictionand abrasion. It will be gone, and you will have nothing valuable in lieu of it. Muchof its value is gone already. . . . How much better for you as seller, and the nation asbuyer, to sell out and buy out that without which the war could never have been, thanto sink both the thing to be sold and ihe price of it in cutting one anothers throats ... 328 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. I am pressed with a difficulty not yet mentioned—o