Identifier: statesmen00inbroo (find matches)
Title: Statesmen
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
Subjects: Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886 Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Statesmen
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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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impressed with theidea that here was a man divinely appointed andtrained for a certain work. In the earlier chap-ters of this book we have seen how persistentlythe political power of slavery in the UnitedStates asserted itself. Good and patriotic menon both sides of the question had tried to putaside slavery and all that hung on that institu-tion, so that it should no longer appear in publicaffairs. Again and again they had, as thev fond-ly thought, buried the whole matter so com-pletely out of sight that it never would be heardof again ; but, like an uneasy ghost, it continuallvcame stalking in where it was neither expectednor desired. This could not be otherwise, in thevery nature of things. Slavery was restless andaggressive. It could not be confined to the Statesin which it had existed for so many years unques-tioned. It was not the fault of the slave-holdingStates that human bondage was first made law-ful within their borders; and now that it wasthere, it could not be got rid of.
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Lincolns Approved Likeness. This picture is after a photograph of Lincoln taken in Washington in 1862, andwas given to Mr. Brooks by Mrs. Lincoln, with the remark that it was her hus-bands favorite likeness. When the picture, a miniature, was shown to Lincoln,and Mrs. Lincolns remark repeated to him, he said. I dont know that I haveany favorite portrait of myself; but I have thought that if I looked like any of thelikenesses of me that have been taken, I look most like that one. The picture hasnever before been engraved. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 177 What was more, slavery must have an outlet.The natural increase of the slaves would soonoverstock the home market. There must besome way of disposing of this increasing surplus.Nor was this all. The area of the United Stateswas frequently being added to by the acquisitionof new territory in various directions. As thesenew territories should enter the Union of States,unless some of them came in as slave-holdingStates, the non-slave-holding States wo

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