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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 12. (search)
ech at the convention. the ratification at Springfield. the campaign of 1856. demands for Lincolspaper men. A newspaper had been started in Springfield called the Conservative, which, it was belicounsel I would have a pro-slavery organ in Springfield publish that very article. He doubted it, been endorsed by a Democratic newspaper in Springfield, and Lincoln himself used it with telling eis public utterances. His party friends in Springfield and elsewhere, who had urged him to push afeally have some chance. Please write me at Springfield giving me the names, post-offices, and poliof course took the most prominent part. At Springfield we were energetic, vigilant, almost revolutdom to sign, calling a county convention in Springfield to select delegates for the forthcoming Reprn and appeal to the people. Not only in Springfield but everywhere else the founders of the Rep redemption draweth nigh. We are coming to Springfield with 20,000 majority! A postmaster, acting[7 more...]
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 13. (search)
sed, with great unanimity, at their convention in Springfield on the 16th of June, the characteristic resolutioell-defined. Numbers of his friends distant from Springfield, on reading his speech, wrote him censorious letttended as an answer to the one made by Lincoln in Springfield. Lincoln was present at this reception, but tookhicago, Douglas passed on down to Bloomington and Springfield, where he spoke on the 16th and 17th of July respch Congressional district, outside of Chicago and Springfield, for joint meetings. Among the items of prepar is the following letter, which explains itself: Springfield, June 28, 1858. A. Campbell, Esq. My Dear Sir:s position was announced in his opening speech at Springfield: A house divided against itself cannot stand. Iver the State, between meetings, he would stop at Springfield sometimes, to consult with his friends or to posting him not to give up the battle, he responded: Springfield, November 19, 1858. Mr. Henry Asbury, My Dear
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 14. (search)
eighboring family, some of whose members still reside in Springfield. If ever my husband dies, . she ejaculated during the r The following letter to the editor of a newspaper in Springfield will serve as a specimen of the Such want of social poli. I insert it without further comment. [Private.] Springfield, Ill., February 20, 1857. John E. Rosette, Esq. Dear Sirated wife, and Lincoln afterward had no better friend in Springfield. Mr. Lincoln never had a confidant, and therefore net the residence of her sister Mrs. Ninian W. Edwards, in Springfield, July 16, 1882. Her physician during her last illness sdvance if assailed for telling the truth. A gentleman in Springfield gave him a book called, I believe, Vestiges of creation,skeptical views were not diminished. He soon removed to Springfield, where he attracted considerable notice by his rank docteligious ideas opinions or beliefs from the time he left Springfield to the day of his death. I do not know just what they w
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 15. (search)
excuse, and he retired from the field. Springfield, March 28, 1859. W. M. Morris, Esq., Det he had failed to induce any publisher in Springfield to undertake the enterprise, A gentleman Lincoln procured a copy and gave it to his Springfield friend, writing on the fly-leaf, Complimente was back again in the dingy law office in Springfield. The opening of the year 1860 found Mr.left for California. Lincoln's return to Springfield after his dazzling success in the East was ails that Lincoln sat still in his chair in Springfield, and that one of those unlooked-for-tides iand was read to us. But Lincoln was down in Springfield, some distance away from Chicago, and couldoflowing is a copy of the original Ms.: Springfield, Ill., October 10, 1860. Dear William: I cawing is Lincoln's letter of acceptance: Springfield, Ill., June 23, 1860. Sir: I accept the nomeins of government, the details of his departure from Springfield, and the selection of a cabinet. [5 more...]
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 16. (search)
. Arrival of the office-seekers in Springfield. recollections of a newspaper corresponden. departure of the Presidential party from Springfield. the journey to Washington and efforts to of less robust constitution. The hotels of Springfield were filled with gentlemen who came with lie thirty-two other states, who swarmed into Springfield from every point of the compass. He told eunt. Before Mr. Lincoln's departure from Springfield, people who knew him personally were frequeFrom a letter to Samuel Haycraft, dated, Springfield, Ill., June 4, 1860.] Like yourself I ic man. [Private and Confidential.] Springfield, Ill., Nov. 13, 1860. Hon. Samuel Haycraft. In January preceding his departure from Springfield Mr. Lincoln, becoming somewhat annoyed, notmpliments to Mr. Lincoln when you return to Springfield, and tell him I expect him to come on to Waer I'll blow them to hell. On my return to Springfield, concludes Mather, I hastened to assure Mr.[12 more...]
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 17. (search)
the past his Illinois and particularly his Springfield friends Lincoln, even after his elevatioo disregard the condition and claims of his Springfield friends. One of the latter who visited Wasot that he was not exactly the property of Springfield and Illinois, but the President of all the tes was nominated, his strength being about Springfield and Jacksonville, extending to Quincy on thfant who died a few days after its birth in Springfield. On the evening we strolled through the Paed from my vision. Long after my return to Springfield, on reverting to the sad separation, my heaersation. I wish to know if you will be in Springfield next Wednesday week, September 4; if so, atcholas Hotel. Please mention this visit to Springfield to no one. It is a most sacred one, as youncoln. I met Mrs. Lincoln at the hotel in Springfield according to appointment. Our interview wa. Up to 1864 Mr. Lincoln wanted to live in Springfield, and if he died be buried there also; but a[1 more...]
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 18. (search)
l the more lifelike by inserting the letter without abridgment. Chicago, Ill., Jan. 17, 1866. Wm. H. Herndon, Esq. Springfield, Ill. Dear Sir: I received your letter today, asking me to write you Friday. Fearing if I delay, you will not get it em. In the summer of 1859, when he was dining with a party of his intimate friends at Bloomington, the subject of his Springfield speech was discussed. We all insisted it was a great mistake, but he justified himself, and finally said, Well, gentle in the direction of uniting the party. I arranged with Mr. Thurlow Weed after the Chicago Convention to meet him at Springfield. I was present at the interview, but Lincoln said nothing. It was proposed that Judge Davis should go to New York anowed, he considered it attributable to the great cause, and not aided by the lesser ones. He sat down in his chair in Springfield and made himself the Mecca to which all politicians made pilgrimages. He told them all a story, said nothing, and sen
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 19. (search)
funeral at the White House. conveying the remains of the dead chieftain to Springfield. the tribute of Henry Ward Beecher. the funeral at Springfield. the captuSpringfield. the capture and death of Booth. the arrest, trial, and execution of his fellow conspirators. The outlines of Mr. Lincoln's Presidential career are alone sufficient to filr for immediate peace. In the following letter to James C. Conkling SPRINGFIELD, Ill., January 11, 1889. Jesse W. Weir, Esq. Dear Sir: I enclose you a cough the medium of the letter. Yours truly, James C. Conkling. of Springfield, Ill., in reply to an invitation to attend a mass meeting of Unconditional Unio Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Chicago, and at last to Springfield. As the funeral cortege passed through New York it was reverently gazed ds, pleads for fidelity, for law, for liberty. The funeral train reached Springfield on the 3d of May. The casket was borne to the State House and placed in Rep
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, chapter 21 (search)
pter 20. the substance of this chapter I delivered in the form of a lecture to a Springfield audience in 1866. W. H. H. The visit of Dr. Holland to Springfield. what he learned from Lincoln's neighbors. their contradictory opinions. description by the author of Lincoln's person. how he walked. his face and head. led into exhibition by their own qualities. I beg to note here in passing the estimate of Lincoln's mind and character by one of his colleagues at the bar in Springfield who still survives, but whose name, for certain reasons, I am constrained to withhold. I still retain the original Ms. written by him twenty years ago. I am paarty, nor could he realize the offense of telling a vulgar yarn if a preacher happened to be present. Sometime in 1857 a lady reader or elocutionist came to Springfield and gave a public reading in a hall immediately north of the State House. As lady lecturers were then rare birds, a very large crowd greeted her. Among other t
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