. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. effort tobreak up the Union. Then, too, Lincoln had heard this threat of secession forso long that he had grown slightly indifferent to it. He re-membered that in the Fremont campaign it had been em-ployed with even more violence than now. Again in 1858the clamor of disunion had risen. He believed that nowmuch of the noise about disunion was merely political, raisedbythefriends of Breckenridge,Douglas,or Bell, to drive vot-ers from him. The leading men of the p
. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. effort tobreak up the Union. Then, too, Lincoln had heard this threat of secession forso long that he had grown slightly indifferent to it. He re-membered that in the Fremont campaign it had been em-ployed with even more violence than now. Again in 1858the clamor of disunion had risen. He believed that nowmuch of the noise about disunion was merely political, raisedbythefriends of Breckenridge,Douglas,or Bell, to drive vot-ers from him. The leading men of the party sustained Lin-coln in this belief. Seward and Schurz both confidently as-sured Republicans in their speeches that they might vote forLincoln without fear, and Bryant, in the Evening Post,laughed at the conservative distresses of those who sup-posed that Lincolns election would cause secession and war;reminding them that when Jefferson was a candidate it wassaid his election would let loose the flood-gates of FrenchJacobinism and that Henry Clay had declared that noth-ing short of universal commercial ruin would follow Jack-. HOME, SPRIi\CFIELD, ILLINOIS. 1K44. From photograph by A. J. Whippl«his sons stand inside the fence. The 1Lincoln from the Rev. Charles Dresser i ally it was a story and a half in height; it was painted white, with green mndow blinds andwhite cliimneys. Though now near the centre, it stood at the time of its purchase by Lin-coln, on the very outskirts of the place. For many years after Mr. Lincoln moved away inisiil. it was occupied by numerous and often indifferent tenants. It was vacant much of thelime. In :i Captain O. H. Oldroyd, now of Washington, D. C, rented the house and threwopen its doors to the public. He maintained it at his own expense until 1S87, ■■ - ■of Illinois, by the gift of Robert Lincoln, became owner of the p:Oldroyd its first custodian. It has since been open to the publi Massachusetts. Mr. Lincoln and one of Lincoln r
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