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Hay was smart and knew it.

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He was attractive to young women and knew it. He was witty and knew it.

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Colleague William O. Stoddard recalled an incident interrupted his work to tell a joke. Nicolay heard the laughter and came into the room. The story was as fresh and was even better told that third time up to its first explosive place.

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I told him the yarn; he quietly grinned. In public matters the older man reposed in the younger unlimited confidence. Early in the war, he also oversaw White House security. Abraham Lincoln: A History Volume 1. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume Stream audiobook and download chapters.

Audiobook downloads. Not only did it show a brilliant array of eminent names, but a remarkable contrast of former antagonisms: Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers, Know-Nothings, Abolitionists; Norman B.

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Browning, Ichabod Codding, Archibald Williams, and many more. The gallant William H. Bissell, who had ridden at the head of the Second Illinois Regiment at the battle of Buena Vista in the Mexican war, was nominated as governor. The convention adopted a platform ringing with strong Anti-Nebraska sentiments, and then and there gave the Republican party its official christening. The business of the convention being over, Mr. Lincoln, in response to repeated calls, came forward and delivered a speech of such earnestness and power that no one who heard it will ever forget the effect it produced.

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Now he was newly baptized and freshly born; he had the fervor of a new convert; the smothered flame broke out; enthusiasm unusual to him blazed up; his eyes were aglow with an inspiration; he felt justice; his heart was alive to the right; his sympathies, remarkably deep for him, burst forth, and he stood before the throne of the eternal Right.

His speech was full of fire and energy and force: it was logic; it was pathos; it was enthusiasm; it was justice, equity, truth, and right set ablaze by the divine fires of a soul maddened by the wrong; it was hard, heavy, knotty, gnarly, backed with wrath. I attempted for about fifteen minutes as was usual with me then to take notes, but at the end of that time I threw pen and paper away and lived only in the inspiration of the hour. If Mr. Lincoln was six feet, four inches high usually, at Bloomington that day he was seven feet, and inspired at that.

From that day to the day of his death he stood firm in the right. Contemporary observer William H.


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From his seat in the back of the house, near where I sat, Lincoln got up and said he believed he would talk from where he was, if nobody objected. But everybody shouted for him to take the platform. Cheers shook the walls as he elbowed his way down the aisle. Lincoln biographer William E. I never witnessed such a scene before or since.

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As he descried the aims and aggressions of the unappeasable slaveholders and the servility of their Northern allies as illustrated by the perfidous repeal of the Missouri Compromise two years previously, and their grasping after the rich prairies of Kansas and Nebraska, to blight them with slavery and to deprive free labor of this rich inheritance, and exhorted the friends of freedom to resist them to death, the convention went fairly wild. According to young William H. Lincoln explained about the things Washington and his soldiers believed in, to prove what the Declaration of Independence meant.

Gradually, he began to talk faster.

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His tall frame rose and fell. Closer and closer, I noticed him peering into the faces of his audience. Another observer, Kansas abolitionist James S. Come as the winds come, when forests are rended; Come as the waves come, when navies are stranded. The text of what Mr. Lincoln actually said has remained a mystery.


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