Abraham Lincoln (1897) (14591422977)

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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the hospitals, to the people of Washington, that there was to be nomore slavery in the land. In the evening a great crowd gatheredaround the White House. The President, responding to their call,said: I cannot but congratulate you, myself, the country, the wholeworld, upon this great moral victory. In Gods time and way the blow had been given, and slaveryabohshed. President Lincoln, in 1861, cheerfully surrendered to Great Britainthe two Confederate agents—Mason and Slidell, wrongfully seized byCommodore Wilkes. Mr. Mason had been courteously received in Lon-don by Lord John Russell as a private citizen, but England was notready to recognize him as an agent of the Confederacy. Mr. Slidell,in Paris, had been accorded several interviews with Louis Napoleon,who said that his sympathies were with the South. He considered there-establishment of the Union impossible, and final separation a merequestion of time. The difficulty before him was to find a way to ex- 474 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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PASSAGE OF THE AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION PROHIBITING SLAVERY. press his sympathies. He desired to preserve friendly relations withEngland, but was not willing to act without the co-operation of thatcountry. Through the war the Emperor had keenly watched every movementof the conflict. He was dreaming of empire and power. He longed tohave his name known in future ages. He desired to see the great re- THE END OF SLAVERY. 475 public of the West divided, the government of the people overthrown.Its example and influence were threatening the stability of Europeangovernments. The United States, during the administration of Presi-dent Monroe, declared to the world that there must be no interferenceon the part of European governments with affairs in the Western hemi-sphere. Each government must be left to itself in working out its well-being and destiny. Just before the secession of the Southern States theClerical Party in the Kepublic of Mexico annulled the Constitutionof that countr)^ and