. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . LINCOLN S BOOKCASE.(PROM THE KEYES LINCOLN MEMORIAL COLLECTION, CHICAGO.) ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 371. MILTON HAY, It (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY W. F. TRUESDFLL. special session until the regular session shouldbegin, during the course of which they ex-pected to renew the lease of life now heldunder sufferance by the banks—in which, itmay be here said, they were finally on one occasion, being in the minority,and having exhausted every other parlia-mentary means of opposition and delay, andseeing the vote they dreaded imminent, theytried to
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . LINCOLN S BOOKCASE.(PROM THE KEYES LINCOLN MEMORIAL COLLECTION, CHICAGO.) ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 371. MILTON HAY, It (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY W. F. TRUESDFLL. special session until the regular session shouldbegin, during the course of which they ex-pected to renew the lease of life now heldunder sufferance by the banks—in which, itmay be here said, they were finally on one occasion, being in the minority,and having exhausted every other parlia-mentary means of opposition and delay, andseeing the vote they dreaded imminent, theytried to defeat it by leaving the house in abody, and, the doors being locked, a numberof them, among whom Mr. Lincolns tall fig-ure was prominent, jumped from the windowsof the church where the Legislature was thenholding its sessions. I think. says , who was one of those who per-formed this feat of acrobatic politics, always regretted it, as he depre-cated everything that savored of the revolu-tionary. Two years later the persecuted banks, har-ried by the demagogues and swindled by theState, fell with a great ruin, and the
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