Selections From the Writings And Addresses of Abraham Lincoln
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Throughout that long period he has constantly been the most loved and most implicitly followed by friends and the most dreaded ]:>y opponents of all living American politicians. In all the great questions which have agitated the country, and particularly in those fearful crises, the Missouri question, the nullification question, and the late slavery question, as connected with the newly acquired territory, involving and en- dangering the stability of the Union, his has been the leading and most... conspicuous part. In 1824 he w^as first a candidate for the Presidency, and was defeated ; and although he was successively defeated for the same office in 1832 and in 1844, there has never beeji a moment since 1824 till after 1848 when a very large portion of the American people did not cling to him W'ith an enthusiastic hope and purpose of still elevat- ing him to the Presidency. With other men, to be 78 SELECTIONS FROM LINCOLN defeated was to be forgotten; but with him defeat was but a trifling incident, neither changing him nor the world's estimate of him.
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