Abraham Lincoln(
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共 30 段- In the fall of 1818 the little community of pioneers was alm
- His employment as surveyor began in 1834 and continued for s
- "My friends: no one not in my position can realize the sadne
- "'My father,' he said, 'had suffered greatly for the want of
- "The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere questi
- Mr. Chauncey M. Depew said, "He told me once that, in his ju
- "He had written the heads of what he intended to say on a fe
- "We went over a little to one side of the crowd and sat down
- Douglas was the regular Democratic candidate for President a
- In 1838 and again in 1840 Lincoln was the Whig candidate for
- "In the mean time our friends, with a view of detaining our
- The election occurred on November 6, 1860, and the result wa
- His sympathies were tender, and his desire to contribute to
- At the beginning of his administration the entire organizati
- Upon his arrival in Washington he immediately handed a copy
- Mr. Chase at once disavowed all knowledge of or responsibili
- From a photograph by Brady]
- A gleam of hope arose in his mind that he might be relieved
- There was no response to this appeal, except from the Senato
- The President replied, "I deplore the want of concurrence wi
- There was very little social life in the White House during
- When William Lloyd Garrison came to Washington to thank the
- "How unfortunate! I can fill that general's place in five mi
- A few months after this event occurred the tragic death of t
- "It has got to be," he told a friend afterwards. "We had pla
- That rare gift which in the every-day affairs of life is cal
- Early in 1865 Lincoln and Secretary Seward received three pe
- A day or two before his inauguration a delegation of merchan
- "I crossed the hall and entered the library. There were misc
- Mr. Usher, the Secretary of the Interior, says that when the