Statesmen . kout; you areafter the Senatorship. No, gentlemen, hesaid, I am killing larger game. The battle ofi860 is worth a hundred of this. It is barelypossible that Lincoln even then saw so far aheadas to think he might be the Republican candi-date for the Presidency in i860; but the chancesare that he was thinking of the battle for freedomand not of himself. For his time had not yetcome. Douglas was elected United States Sena-tor, although the number of votes polled in theelection for members of the Legislature were morein Lincolns favor than in Douglass ; but as therewere certain hold-ov
Statesmen . kout; you areafter the Senatorship. No, gentlemen, hesaid, I am killing larger game. The battle ofi860 is worth a hundred of this. It is barelypossible that Lincoln even then saw so far aheadas to think he might be the Republican candi-date for the Presidency in i860; but the chancesare that he was thinking of the battle for freedomand not of himself. For his time had not yetcome. Douglas was elected United States Sena-tor, although the number of votes polled in theelection for members of the Legislature were morein Lincolns favor than in Douglass ; but as therewere certain hold-over Senators whose votes wereto be counted in the election of United StatesSenator, the real victory rested with Douglas. 202 STATESMEN From that contest emerged the great, majesticfigure of Abraham Lincoln, easily the leader andchampion of the Free-Soil party of the joint debate attracted attention not only inthe West, but all over the United States, andwherever the political situation was discussed. The St. Gaudens Statue of Lincoln at Lincoln Park, Chicago. there was heard the name of Lincoln. Hisgreatest power as a debater was the charm of hisindividuality. His voice was rather high andshrill, his figure awkward, and his movementsungraceful; but the strong sympathetic ele-ment that dominated his nature was alwaysperceptible through everything he said or did. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 203 He was pre-eminently a man of the people, thepeoples advocate ; he was of the plain understood their joys, their sorrows, theirhopes, their ambitions. He entered more fullyinto their sympathies than any public man whoever lived, and as the contest drew on when thelast battle in the field of politics should be foughtbetween freedom and slavery, he gradually be-came the peoples champion as against a greatwrong, rather than the champion and advocateof any great moral or political principle. Fromthis time forth we must recognize him as speak-ing always in the capacity of an attorney for
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