Life of Abraham Lincoln - being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln (1896) (14750156566)

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Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Nichols, Clifton M. (Clifton Melvin), 1830-1903 McKinley, William, 1843-1901. Oration on Abraham Lincoln Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. Abraham Lincoln Knox, William, 1789-1825. Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York City Springfield, Ohio Chicago, Ill. : Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick
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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m as thoroughly and carefully as I can. What I havewritten is that which my reflections have determined me to say. If there is any-thing in the expressions I use, or in any minor matter, which any one of youthink had best be changed, I shall be glad to receive your suggestions. One other observation I will make. I know very well that many othersmight, in this matter as in others, do better than I can; and if I was satisfiedthat the public confidence was more fully possessed by any one of them than byme, and knew of any constitutional way in which he could be put in my place,he should have it. I would gladly yield to him. But though I believe I havenot so much of the confidence of the people as I had some time since, I do notknow that, all things considered, any other person has more; and, however thismay be, there is no way in which I can have any other man put where I am. Iam here; I must do the best I can, and bear the responsibility of taking thecourse which I feel I ought to take.
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INTERIOR OF MEMORIAL HALL. (Lincoln Monximent, Springfield, III.) Some of the most interesting oTijeots are arrang-ed in the foreground. On the left is seen abust of the martyred president, and a cast of the hand that wrote the Emancipation Proclama-tion. On the right is a stone taken from a fragment of a wall built about twenty-four hundredyears ago, during the reign of .Servius Tullius, its sixth king, around the city of Rome, Italy.The inscription on it reads: To Abraham Lincoln, president for tlie second time of theAmerican republic, citizens of Rome present this stone, from the wall of Servius Tullius, bywhich the memory of each of those brave asserters of liberty may be associated. Anno, 1865.The old chair in front of the column contains a seat of liickory bark, put in by Mr. Lincoln in1834. The surveying instruments were owned and used by him from 1832 until 1837. Thepowder-horn was worn by his grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, as a Revolutionary soldier fromVirginia. He was killed