. Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits. Lincoln firstmet Stephen A. Douglas, who was then buttwenty-three years old. The slavery questionwas beginning to agitate the country. Bothparties were bowing submissive to that greatpower. Some extreme pro-slavery resolutionspassed the legislature. There were but twomen who ventured to remonstrate. AbrahamLincoln was one. Slavery, ]\Ir. Lincoln saidin his protest; which was entered upon thejournal of the
. Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits. Lincoln firstmet Stephen A. Douglas, who was then buttwenty-three years old. The slavery questionwas beginning to agitate the country. Bothparties were bowing submissive to that greatpower. Some extreme pro-slavery resolutionspassed the legislature. There were but twomen who ventured to remonstrate. AbrahamLincoln was one. Slavery, ]\Ir. Lincoln saidin his protest; which was entered upon thejournal of the house, is founded on both in-justice and bad policy. He was still poor. Hewalked to Vandalia. He walked home; hisonly baggage, a bundle in his hand. ]\Iajor Stuart, of Springfield, now proposedthat Mr. Lincoln should become his partnerin the law; and accordingly, in April, 1839, heremoved to Springfield, and commenced thepractice of his new profession. In the mean-time, the capital was removed to Springfield;and Mr. Lincoln, by successive elections, wascontinued in the legislature, and was recog-nized as its leading member on the Whig the practice of the law, his success with. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 31 the jury was so great, that he was engagedin almost every important case in the circuit. ]\Ir. Lincohi at once took a ver} high positionat the bar. He would never advocate a causewhich he did not believe to be a just one, andno amount of odium or unpopularity could dis-suade him from espousing a cause where hethought the right was with his client. Few law-yers were at that time willing to undertake thedefense of any one who had helped a fugitiveslave on his way to Canada. A man who wasaccused of that crime applied to one of the firstlawyers in Springfield as his advocate. The law-yer declined, saying that he should imperil all hispolitical prospects by undertaking the case. Hethen applied to an earnest antislavery man foradvice. Go, said he, to Mr. Lincoln. He isnot afraid of an
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