A Lincoln Story
Anonymous
“One day,” said General Howard, “Mr. Lincoln saw Senator Fessenden coming toward his office room.
(more…)Abraham Lincoln, The Common Man
Frank Crane
Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. That year, 1809, the earth brought forth a litter of veritable lion whelps. It is the birth-year of two masters in music, Chopin and Mendelssohn; and four poets of the first rank, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward FitzGerald, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Alfred Tennyson. The same year comes Charles Darwin, whose influence upon every department of modern thought is perhaps greater than that of any other modern man, and William Ewart Gladstone, “the Grand Old Man” of England.
(more…)Abraham Lincoln On The Slavery Question
A Voice From The Past
From a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in Alton, Illinois, on October 15, 1858.
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