Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . and directness of purpose. He had sprung from the ranks ofthe people, and he was never false tothem. He was a simple, unaffected,kind-hearted man; anxious to do hisduty to the whole country; domesticin his tastes and habits; and faithfulin every place he occupied. He wasfond of humor, and overflowed with it;finding in his little stories the only relaxation he ever sought fromf che heavy cares of the trying position to which he was called.\ Mr. Lincoln was elected by a plurality
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . and directness of purpose. He had sprung from the ranks ofthe people, and he was never false tothem. He was a simple, unaffected,kind-hearted man; anxious to do hisduty to the whole country; domesticin his tastes and habits; and faithfulin every place he occupied. He wasfond of humor, and overflowed with it;finding in his little stories the only relaxation he ever sought fromf che heavy cares of the trying position to which he was called.\ Mr. Lincoln was elected by a plurality of the popular vote. That is, he had a larger vote than any other candidate, although he did not havemore votes than all the others put together. This secured foi him eigh-teen States. These States were entirely in the North. The States which cast their votes for Breckenridge, Bell and Doug-las, the other candidates, were entirely slave-holding. The division thusmade was alarming. It was the first time in the history of the Republicthat a President had been elected by the votes of a single section of the ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 164 ABRAHAM UNCOI^N. The state in which the Presidential election left the country, wasalarming. The excitement was higher than it had been before the strug-gle at the polls. The Gulf States had declared at an early period of thepolitical campaign that they would withdraw from the Union in the eventof the election of a Republican President. The people of the South gen-erally regarded the result of the election as an evidence of the determina-tion of th e North-ern States to usethe power of theFederal govern-ment to destroythe institution ofslavery. The dis-union leaders ex-erted themselvesto deepen thisconviction, andto arouse thefears of theSouth. The resultwas that theSouthern Statesleft the Unionand the greatCivil War follow-ed. After Mr. LIXCOI,N MONUMENT, FAIRMOUNT PARK, Liucolnhad bcCU President four years he was elected again. This
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