. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . ng to thecharge of Douglas that hehad taken the part of thecommon enemy, wheneverthey asked for any money,or land warrants, or any-thing to pay the solcliersthere, during all that timeI gave the same vote thatJudge Douglas did. YourKTFR ( ^^^ think as you please as to whether that was consis-tent. Such is the truth, and the judge has the right to make all he can out of when he, by a general charg
. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . ng to thecharge of Douglas that hehad taken the part of thecommon enemy, wheneverthey asked for any money,or land warrants, or any-thing to pay the solcliersthere, during all that timeI gave the same vote thatJudge Douglas did. YourKTFR ( ^^^ think as you please as to whether that was consis-tent. Such is the truth, and the judge has the right to make all he can out of when he, by a general charge, conveys the idea that I withheld suppliesfrom the soldiers who were fighting in the Mexican war, or did anything else tohinder the soldiers, he is, to say the least, grossly and altogether mistaken. During this session of Congress Mr. Lincoln introduced what his opponentscalled the Spot resolutions, their purpose being to ridicule him. Neverthelessthey were very much annoyed and worried by them. They gave President Polka great deal of worry and trouble. He had tried to convey, in his message, theimpression that the Mexicans were the aggressors, and that the war was under-. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 105 taken to repel invasion and to avenge the shedding of the blood of our fellow-citizens on our own soil. No president, before nor since, was ever so peculiarlyor trenchantly arraigned as on this occasion. The resolutions are given in fullbelow: ■■Resolved by the House of Representatives, That the President of the UnitedStates be respectfully requested to inform this House— 1st. Whether the spot on which the blood of our citizens was shed, as in hismessages declared, was or was not within the territory of Spain, at least afterthe treaty of 1819, until theMexican revolution. 2d. Whether that spotis or is not within the terri-tory which was wrested fromSpain by the revolutionarygovernment of Mexico. 3d. Whether that spotis or is not within a settle-ment of people, which set-tlement h
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