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Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
money we sent to Col. A. P. Fields, a friend of ours in New Orleans, who applied it as directed, and it restored the prisoner to his overjoyed mother. The political history of the country, commencing in 1854 and continuing until the outbreak of the Rebellion, furnishes the student a constant succession of stirring and sometimes bloody scenes. No sooner had Lincoln emerged from the Senatorial contest in February, 1855, and absorbed himself in the law, than the outrages on the borders of Missouri and Kansas began to arrest public attention. The stories of raids, election frauds, murders, and other crimes were moving eastward with marked rapidity. These outbursts of frontier lawlessness, led and sanctioned by the avowed pro-slavery element, were not only stirring up the Abolitionists to fever heat, but touching the hearts of humanity in general. In Illinois an association was formed to aid the cause of Free-Soil men in Kansas. In the meetings of these bands the Abolitionists of
Ohio (United States) (search for this): chapter 13
Speed, August 24, 1855, Ms. who called to his attention their differences of views on the wrong of slavery. Speaking of his observation of the treatment of the slaves, he says: I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down and caught and carried back to their unrequited toils; but I bite my lips and keep quiet. In 1841 you and I had rather a tedious low-water trip on a steamboat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio, there were on board ten or a dozen slaves shackled together with irons. That sight was a continued torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest in a thing which has, and continually exercises, the power of making me miserable. You ought rather to appreciate how much the great body of the Northern people do crucify their feelings in order to maintain their loyalty to the Constitution and
Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
of the slaves, he says: I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down and caught and carried back to their unrequited toils; but I bite my lips and keep quiet. In 1841 you and I had rather a tedious low-water trip on a steamboat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio, there were on board ten or a dozen slaves shackled together with irons. That sight was a continued torment to me; and I see something like it every tLouisville to the mouth of the Ohio, there were on board ten or a dozen slaves shackled together with irons. That sight was a continued torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest in a thing which has, and continually exercises, the power of making me miserable. You ought rather to appreciate how much the great body of the Northern people do crucify their feelings in order to maintain their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union. I do oppose the extension of slavery because my judgment and feeling so prompt me; and I am under no obligations to the contrary. If for th
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
and political literature. passage of the Kansas Nebraska bill. the signs of discontent. the arrival of Doether. The passage in May, 1854, of the Kansas-Nebraska bill swept out of sight the Missouri Compromise anogic, and illustrations from nature around us. The Nebraska bill was shivered, and like a tree of the forest w many others, who helped to swell the throng. The Nebraska movement had kindled anew the old.zeal, and inspiruld have won but for the apostasy of the five anti-Nebraska men of Democratic antecedents who clung to and finvery and opposition to the injustice of the Kansas-Nebraska legislation were not all that were required of him56. The State convention of all opponents of anti-Nebraska legislation, referred to in a foregoing paragraph,ention adopted a platform ringing with strong anti-Nebraska sentiments, and then and there gave the Republica55. on the one great issue of restoring Kansas and Nebraska to freedom, or rather of restoring the Missouri Co
Tazewell (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
Stuart relates Statement, J. T. S., Ms., July 21, 1865. that, as he and Lincoln were returning from the court in Tazewell county in 1850, and were nearing the little town of Dillon, they engaged in a discussion of the political situation. As weand reasoning moved him or not I do not know, but it only remains to state that under pretence of having business in Tazewell county he drove out of town in his buggy, and did not return till the apostles of Abolitionism had separated and gone to th in the United States Senate was forced to avoid the issue by driving hastily in his one horse buggy to the court in Tazewell county. A singular coincidence suggests itself in the fact that, twelve years before, James Shields and a friend drove haslf if assailed I immediately sat down, after Stuart had rushed out of the office, and wrote Lincoln, who was then in Tazewell County attending court, a brief account of what I had done and how much stir it was creating in the ranks of his conservati
Springfield (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
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...]
Princeton, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
is astonishment a few days later to find that his rival, instead of going direct to his home in Chicago, had stopped at Princeton and violated his express agreement by making a speech there! Lincoln was much displeased at this action of Douglas, whDouglas's indisposition. Here they separated, Lincoln going directly home, and Douglas, as before related, stopping at Princeton and colliding in debate with Owen Lovejoy. Upon being charged afterwards with his breech of agreement Douglas respondely he could not gracefully resist the encounter. The whole thing thoroughly displeased Lincoln. In a letter from Princeton, Ill., March 15, 1866, John H. Bryant, brother of the poet William Cullen Bryant, writes: I have succeeded in finding an old file of our Princeton papers, from which I learn that Mr. Douglas spoke here on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 1854. This fixes the date. I recollect that he staid at Tiskilwa, six miles south of this, the night before, and a number of our Democrats
Peoria (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
ke issue in another and entirely different matter. By request of party friends Lincoln was induced to follow after Douglas and, at the various places where the latter had appointments to speak, reply to him. On the 16th of October they met at Peoria, where Douglas enjoyed the advantages of an open and close. Lincoln made an effective speech, which he wrote out and furnished to the Sangamon Journal for publication, and which can be found among his public utterances. His party friends in Spranother; while every cross-roads politician and legislative aspirant wanted him down in our country, where we need your help. Joshua R. Giddings wrote him words of encouragement. You may start, said the valiant old Abolitionist in a letter from Peoria, J. R. Giddings, Ms. letter, Sept. 18, 1855. on the one great issue of restoring Kansas and Nebraska to freedom, or rather of restoring the Missouri Compromise, and in this State no power on earth can withstand you on that issue. The demand f
Paris, Edgar County, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
the more easily be elected to succeed his old rival James Shields, who was then one of the senators from Illinois. His canvass for that exalted office was marked by his characteristic activity and vigilance. During the anxious moments that intervened between the general election and the assembling of the Legislature he slept, like Napoleon, with one eye open. While attending court at Clinton on the 11th of November, a few days after the election, he wrote to a party friend in the town of Paris: I have a suspicion that a Whig has been elected to the Legislature from Edgar. If this is not so, why then, nix cum arous; but if it is so, then could you not make a mark with him for me for U. S. Senator? I really have some chance. Please write me at Springfield giving me the names, post-offices, and political positions of your Representative and Senator, whoever they may be. Let this be confidential. Robert Mosely, November 11, 1855, Ms. That man who thinks Lincoln calmly sat do
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
ng freshet sweep former landmarks out of sight. Of the strongest significance in this connection is a letter written by him at this juncture to an old friend in Kentucky, Letter to Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855, Ms. who called to his attention their differences of views on the wrong of slavery. Speaking of his observation ennsylvania and any other one Stale besides; then he is elected, no matter who gets all the rest. But suppose Fillmore gets the two slave States of Maryland and Kentucky then Buchanan is not elected; Fillmore goes into the House of Representatives and may be made President by a compromise. But suppose again Fillmore's friends ththousand votes on him in Indiana and Illinois' it Will inevitably give these States to Buchanan, which will more than compensate him for the loss of Maryland and Kentucky; it will elect him, and leave Fillmore no chance in the House of Representatives or out of it. This is as plain as adding up the weight of three small hogs.
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