Abraham Lincoln (1897) (14774565461)

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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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. KANSAS-NEBRASKA STRUGGLE. 177 I have seen you before, ^Iv. Lincoln remarked. I think not. You must mistake me for some other person. • Xo; I saw you last evening in the town-hall. Is it possible that you could have observed individuals so closely insuch an audience i Oh yes; that is my way. I do not forget faces. AVere you nottherer I was, and I was well paid for going. I consider it one of the mostextraordinary speeches I ever heard.
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Elihu B. Washburne. 178 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Will you take a seat with me ? the kind invitation of Mr, Lincoln as they entered the car. Were you sincere in what you said about my speech T I mean every word of it. I learned more of the art of public speaking last evening than I could from a whole course of lectures onrhetoric. That is extraordinary. I am informed that one of the professors at Yale College followed me to Meriden to hear me a second time, andhas been lecturing about my speech. I should like to know what thereis about what I say that has made you and the professor think it anyway remarkable. It is the clearness of your statements, your unanswerable style ofreasoning, and your illustrations, which are romance, pathos, and fun welded together. I am much obliged to you. I have been wishing for a long time to have some one make an analysis for rae. It throws light on a sub-ject which has been dark to me. May I ask how you acquired your unusual power of putting things?It must