Abraham Lincoln : His Youth And Early Manhood, With a Brief Account of His Later Life
The book Abraham Lincoln : His Youth And Early Manhood, With a Brief Account of His Later Life was written by author Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903 Here you can read free online of Abraham Lincoln : His Youth And Early Manhood, With a Brief Account of His Later Life book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Abraham Lincoln : His Youth And Early Manhood, With a Brief Account of His Later Life a good or bad book?
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But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate ex- tinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become lawful in all States, old as well as new, North as well as South." When this memorable debate began, Lincoln and Douglas were both in the full maturity of their physi...cal Lincoln and Douglas 105 and intellectual powers. Douglas was forty-j5ve years old, and Lincoln was forty-nine. Douglas was a native of Vermont, and had migrated at the age of twenty to Illinois. lyike Lincoln, he was a self-made man, and had risen to eminence by the sheer force of char- acter and genius. At the age of twenty-two he was elected Attorney -General of the young State. Resign- ing this ofiSce, he was chosen to the State Legislature, where he speedily made his mark as a shrewd politician, a ready debater, and a thoroughly " good fellow." Here it was that he first met Lincoln.
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