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Browsing named entities in a specific section of John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History. Search the whole document.
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Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Bloomington (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Chapter 7.
Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
State Fair debate
Peoria debate
Trumbull elected
letter to Robinson
the know
Nothings
Decatur meeting
Bloomington convention
Philadelphia conventions
Lincoln's vote for Vice
President
Fremont and Dayton
Lincoln's campaign speeches
Chicago banquet speech
After the expiration of his term in Congress Mr.
Lincoln applied himself with unremitting assiduity to the practice of law, which the growth of the State in ecame impossible.
Early in 1856 Mr. Lincoln began to take an active part in organizing the Republican party.
He attended a small gathering of Anti-Nebraska editors in February, at Decatur, who issued a call for a mass convention which met at Bloomington in May, at which the Republican party of Illinois was formally constituted by an enthusiastic gathering of local leaders who had formerly been bitter antagonists, but who now joined their efforts to resist slavery extension.
They formulated a
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Decatur (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Chapter 7.
Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
State Fair debate
Peoria debate
Trumbull elected
letter to Robinson
the know
Nothings
Decatur meeting
Bloomington convention
Philadelphia conventions
Lincoln's vote for Vice
President
Fremont and Dayton
Lincoln's campaign speeches
Chicago banquet speech
After the expiration of his term in Congress Mr.
Lincoln applied himself with unremitting assiduity to the practice of law, which the growth of the State in .
The agitation, however, swept on, and further hesitation became impossible.
Early in 1856 Mr. Lincoln began to take an active part in organizing the Republican party.
He attended a small gathering of Anti-Nebraska editors in February, at Decatur, who issued a call for a mass convention which met at Bloomington in May, at which the Republican party of Illinois was formally constituted by an enthusiastic gathering of local leaders who had formerly been bitter antagonists, but who now join
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Peoria (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Chapter 7.
Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
State Fair debate
Peoria debate
Trumbull elected
letter to Robinson
the know
Nothings
Decatur meeting
Bloomington convention
Philadelphia conventions
Lincoln's vote for Vice
President
Fremont and Dayton
Lincoln's campaign speeches
Chicago banquet speech
After the expiration of his term in Congress Mr.
Lincoln applied himself with unremitting assiduity to the practice of law, which the growth of the State in p illustrations from history, and citations from authorities, as secured him a decided oratorical triumph, and lifted him at a single bound to the leadership of the opposition to Douglas's propagandism.
Two weeks later, Douglas and Lincoln met at Peoria in a similar debate, and on his return to Springfield Lincoln wrote out and printed his speech in full.
The reader who carefully examines this speech will at once be impressed with the genius which immediately made Mr. Lincoln a power in Amer
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
A. J. Donelson (search for this): chapter 7