. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. le else-where. I do not say the contrary. What I do say is thatno man is good enough to govern another man without thatothers consent. I say this is the leading principle, the sheet-anchor of American republicanism. This Peoria speech, whidh is very long, is particularly in-teresting to students of Mr. Lincolns speeches, because in itis found the germ of many of the arguments which he elab-orated in the next six years and used with tremendous effect. With the P
. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. le else-where. I do not say the contrary. What I do say is thatno man is good enough to govern another man without thatothers consent. I say this is the leading principle, the sheet-anchor of American republicanism. This Peoria speech, whidh is very long, is particularly in-teresting to students of Mr. Lincolns speeches, because in itis found the germ of many of the arguments which he elab-orated in the next six years and used with tremendous effect. With the Peoria speech Douglas had had enough of Lin-coln as an antagonist, and he made a compact with him thatneither should speak again in the campaign. It was char-acteristic of Douglas that on his way to Chicago he shouldstop and deliver a speech at Princeton! But though Lincoln had temporarily withdrawn from thestump he was by no means abandoning the struggle. Theiniquity of the Kansas-Nebraska bill grew greater to himevery day. He meant to fight it to the end and he wanted togo where he could fight it directly. He became a candidate. LINCOL From an ambrotype taken in Springfield, Illinois, on August i:), ISiiO, and boughtby Mr. William H. Lambert from Mr. W. P. Brown of Pbiladelphia. Mr. Brownwrites of the portrait: This picture, along with another one of the same kind,was presented by President Lincoln to my father, J. Henry Brown, deceased (min-iature artist), after he had finished painting Lincolns picture on ivory at Spring-field, Illinois. The commission was given my father by Judge Read (John of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania), immediately after Lincolns nomi-nation for the presidency. One of the ambrotypes I sold to the Historical Societyof Boston, Massachusetts, and it is now in their possession. The miniature re-ferred to is now owned by Mr. Robert T. Lincoln. It was engraved by SamuelSartain, and circulated widely before the inauguration. After Mr. Lincoln grewa
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