The political manual, comprising numerous important documents connected with the political history of America . not a party of traitors,either South or North. The masses of the people of the Southsern States were by no means desirous of severing their connec-tion with the Government of the United States,.as was amplytestified in the overwhelming Union majorities given in NorthCarolina, Tennessee, and other Southern States, even after SouthCarolina had sloughed off, and all the preliminary steps had beentaken by the leading secessionists toward the formation of aSouthern Confederacy. And there
The political manual, comprising numerous important documents connected with the political history of America . not a party of traitors,either South or North. The masses of the people of the Southsern States were by no means desirous of severing their connec-tion with the Government of the United States,.as was amplytestified in the overwhelming Union majorities given in NorthCarolina, Tennessee, and other Southern States, even after SouthCarolina had sloughed off, and all the preliminary steps had beentaken by the leading secessionists toward the formation of aSouthern Confederacy. And there is no doubt that had Mi*.Buchanan taken hold of the rebellion, while it was in the larva,with that determination to crush it which the great Jackson ex-hibited when South Carolina proposed her scheme of nullification, it had never seen its winged existence. Buchanans administration, in one respect, may possibly yetbe productive of good, in that it may serve to impress the peoplewith the importance of selecting a man for the chief magistracy?who loves the ri^ht and dares to do it. 145. ABRAHAM L1^X0LN, FOURTEENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Was born in Hardin county, Kentucky, February 12th, record of his boyhood and youth, so far as we have beenable to trace it, is not distinguished by anything more remarka-ble than the usual experienco of children of pioneers in a newcountry. In ISIG he removed with his parents to what is nowSpencer county, Indiana. Here he enjoyod the advantages of a10 146 ABRAHAM 1,IN(J0I,N. little schooling—less»th;m a, year, bowovei-, ia all. Whateverelse he afterward learned from books was without the aid of theschoolmaster—the result of his own energy and indomitable per-sevorence. In 1832 lie served in the Bhickhawk war, and on his returnfrom that service, was nominated for the Illinois Legislaturefrom the connty of Macon. In 1834 he was elected to the Leg-islature, and re-elected in 1836, 1838, and 1840. While in t
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