Life and works of Abraham Lincoln . ore thorough organization of the Republican party, pre-paratory to the great contest of i860. I visited a large majority ofthe counties, and nearly everywhere had the satisfaction of learningthat, though many doubted the possibility of nominating Lincoln, mostgenerally it was approved of. This fact became in time very apparentto Lincoln himself, whom I not infrequently met in my travelsj and inthe month of December of that year, feeling that perhaps it wouldpay, I induced him to place in my hands this eminently characteristicpaper.—^Jesse W. Fell. For printe


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