. Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated . ides, the astonished animal broke away downthe road in a lumbering gallop. The last I saw of Abe 2/8 Lincolns stories and speeches. Lincoln, the old gentleman relates fondly, he wasswinging his hat
. Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated . ides, the astonished animal broke away downthe road in a lumbering gallop. The last I saw of Abe 2/8 Lincolns stories and speeches. Lincoln, the old gentleman relates fondly, he wasswinging his hat, shouting at the top of his voice, gallop-ing down the road on that thunderstruck cow. From the original manuscript of one of Mr. Lincolnsspeeches, these words were transferred: -Twenty-twoyears ago. Judge Douglas and I first became acquaint-ed. We were both young then—he a trifle younger thanI. Even then we were both ambitious,—I, perhaps,quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambitionhas been a failure—a flat failure; with him, it has beenone of splendid success. His name fills the nation, andis not unknown even in-foreign lands. I affect no con-tempt for the high eminence he has reached. So reach-ed that the oppressed of my species might have sharedwith me in the elevation, I would rather stand on thateminence than wear the richest crown that ever presseda monarchs brow. ?-. MISCELLANEOUS. 2/9 Lincolns Last Story and Last Written Wordsand Conversation. The last story written by Mr. Lincoln was drawn outby a circumstance which occurred just before the inter--view with Messrs. Colfax and Ashmun, on the eveningof the assassination. Marshal Lamon, of Washington, had called upon himwith an application for the pardon of a soldier. After abrief hearing the President took the application, and,when about to write his name upon the back of it helooked up and said: Lamon, have you ever heard how the Patagonianseat * They open them and throw the shells outof the wi
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