This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...gov-ern-ment. One af-ter an-oth-er, other states in the South went out, also, and joined South Car-o-li-na, un-til, by the first of Feb-ru-a-ry, 1861, all the sev-en cot-ton states had with-drawn from the Un-ion. Their claim was that the rights of a state were high-er than those of the Un-ion when it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...gov-ern-ment. One af-ter an-oth-er, other states in the South went out, also, and joined South Car-o-li-na, un-til, by the first of Feb-ru-a-ry, 1861, all the sev-en cot-ton states had with-drawn from the Un-ion. Their claim was that the rights of a state were high-er than those of the Un-ion when it thought it ought to do so. Mem-bers of Con-gress and others tried to set-tle the trou-ble but to no a-vail, and there seemed no 'way a-head but a tri-al of the is-sue on the bat-tle-field. Lin-coln was in THE LINCOLN HOME IN SPRINGFIELD. Spring-field and could do naught then, save with his pen and words of ad-vice to Bu-chan-an who was then Pres-i-dent. With great sad-ness he read what had been done at the South. There was still much to do in Spring-field in his plans to leave his law work, and Mr. Lin-coln felt that a great load of care was up-on him, and the task, which in a few brief months would be his, was sure to be more even than that which fell to the first great Chief, George Wash-ing-ton. There were times when he spent whole days in deep thought, si-lent and sad. Still, in the midst of all this work, there came times when in a light-er vein he would show mirth at incidents as they came up. A bus-i-ness trip had to be made. A group of small girls was met at the house of a friend. They gazed at the great man as if they would speak to him. He kind-ly asked them if he could help them in an-y way. One of them said that she would dear-ly like to have him write his name for her. Lin-coln said he saw oth-er young girls there and thought that if he wrote his name for but one, the rest would 44 feel bad-ly." The child then told him there were "eight all told." Then, with one of his bright smiles the kind man asked for eight slips of pa-per...
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