Abraham Lincoln (1897) (14774628671)

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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nging bells mounted on wagons and drawn by horses, as their proces-sions paraded the streets of towns and cities. Breckinridge had not many supporters in the Northern States. Itwas but a small portion of the Democratic Party that followed his lead. We are not to think because there was an uprising of people to re-strict the further extension of slavery, the party supporting AbrahamLincoln was for its immediate abolition. The printer imprisoned atBaltimore thirty years before for saying the slave-trade was piracy,took no part in advocating the election of Abraham Lincoln, who wasnot an Abolitionist. Public sentiment cannot be changed in a day.Many good men in the Northern States, including ministers, lawyers,judges, opposed the Republican Party. They said it was sectional, andits success would bring about a dissolution of the I^nion. The slave-holders were threatening to secede, and establish a Southern Con-federacy if Lincoln should be elected. lie saw a dark and forbidding mm.: mm../
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THE ELECTION. 207 future. Shall we wonder that his friends beheld the old look of sad-ness upon his face at times ( Mr. Bateman, said )\(r. Lincoln to the Superintendent of Instruc-tion, whose office joined the chamber where he received his friends. here is a book—a canvass of this city, which my friends have made—the name of ever\^ citizen, and how he probably will vote. Hereare the names of twenty-three ministers of different denominations,and all but three of them are against me. Here are the names of agreat many men Avho are members of churches, and a very largemajority of them are against me. Mr. Bateman, I am not a Christian.God knows that I want to be one. I have read the Bible ever since Isat at my mothers knee. Here is the Xew Testament which I carrywith me. Its teachings are all for liberty. Now, these ministers andchurch members know that I am for freedom in the Territories—forfreedom everywhere as far as the Constitution and law will permit, andthat my opponents are