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Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 Mentor Association (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: (New York) : Mentor Association, Inc.
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. Blair S. Cameron (From left to right) S. P. Chase W. H. Seward Pres. Lincoln Gen. Scott G. Welles E. Bates was, and until recently had continued tobe, the equality of men. Believing in law, Lincoln was stronglyagainst lynching, and his firstformal addresswas called out by the lynching of whitegamblers and the burning at the stake of amulatto murderer, in St. Louis, in 1837. Lincolns great opportunity came in1858, when the issue was squarely raisedwhether the slave trust should have powerthrough the national government to extendits area and to protect its system. Thingsturned out so that in Illinois, Douglas (whowas not at all an ardent proslavery man)was put forward as the champion of the prin-ciple that any state or territory that wantedslavery was entitled to have it; and Lincolnin the famous joint debates championed theprinciple that slavery ought to be limited,and finally exterminated. That was whenLincoln said, I believe this governmentcannot endure permanently half slave and
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STATUE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLNBy Augustus Saint Gaudens. Chicago. B R H M N O N

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