. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery. CHAPTER XIX. PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN. In the White House—Assembling of the Rebel Congress—Rebel Emis-saries Sent to Washington—A Vigorous Policy Clamored for—TheFirst Gun at Sumter—Great Excitement throughout the Republic—A Nation in Arms—Attack on the Sixth Massachusetts—NotableDeaths. WHEN he installed himself in the White House,the official residence of Presidents of the UnitedStates, Lincoln found that two lamentable featuresof affairs were really not wholly unobjectionable, fromone point of view. He was surrounded by hordes ofoffic
. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery. CHAPTER XIX. PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN. In the White House—Assembling of the Rebel Congress—Rebel Emis-saries Sent to Washington—A Vigorous Policy Clamored for—TheFirst Gun at Sumter—Great Excitement throughout the Republic—A Nation in Arms—Attack on the Sixth Massachusetts—NotableDeaths. WHEN he installed himself in the White House,the official residence of Presidents of the UnitedStates, Lincoln found that two lamentable featuresof affairs were really not wholly unobjectionable, fromone point of view. He was surrounded by hordes ofoffice-seekers ; the country was on the brink of , with his ready way of finding somethingencouraging, even in calamities, he said that if the peopleof the loyal States did not have implicit confidence in thestability of the Union and the government they wouldnot flock in such numbers to Washington to hunt forplaces under that government. And, although Buchan-ans Administration had gone out of power leaving everything in the
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