. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . ritory, or the othermembers of the families ofcommunities of which theyare but incipient members,or the general head of thefamily of states, as parentof all—however their actionmay affect one or the otherof these, there is no poweror right to interfere. Thatis Douglas popular sov-ereignty applied. He has agood deal of trouble withpopular sovereignty. Hisexplanations explanatory ofexplanations explained areintermina
. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . ritory, or the othermembers of the families ofcommunities of which theyare but incipient members,or the general head of thefamily of states, as parentof all—however their actionmay affect one or the otherof these, there is no poweror right to interfere. Thatis Douglas popular sov-ereignty applied. He has agood deal of trouble withpopular sovereignty. Hisexplanations explanatory ofexplanations explained areinterminable. Mr. Lincolnproceeded to say, Did youever, five years ago, hear of anyliody in the world saying that the negro hadno share in the Declaration of National Independence; that it did not meannegroes at all; and when all men were spoken of, negroes were not included?Mr. Lincoln at Cincinnati addressed largely the Kentuckians, bis old neigh-bors, and after advising them to nominate Mr. Douglas as their candidate for thejiresidency at the approaching Charleston convention, showed them how, by sodoing, they would the more surely protect their cherished institution of ,ES FRKMOST. ally known as the PatJifluder. He was b(las the first Republican candiilate for preside lBKAHAM linculn. 131 The Ohio Republicau state conuiiittce was so well pleased with Mr. Lincolnsspeeches that it requested permissiou to publish in a pamphlet or book theverbatim report of the debate between Mr. Douglas and himself in Illinois, ofwhich they printed a very large edition and distributed it widely as a campaigndocument. In December, 1859, by invitation, Lincoln visited Kansas, as the greatchampion of the freedom of their territory. He spoke at Atchison, Troy, Leav-enworth and other towns near the border. In February, 1860, he was invited to speak in New York, and at Cooper Insti-tute, on the evening of February 27,1860, he made one of the grandest? of all hispublic utterances, exciting by his
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