Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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urton C. Cook, ofOttawa; David Davis, of Springfield, and others in secret consulta-tion at the Tremont House. •We must beat Sew-ards men on their ownground. said Judd. There is a fellow in thiscity with a thunderingvoice. He can halloo loudenouo-h to be heard acrossLake Michigan, and I pro-pose that we have him onhand to-morrow. I Ivuow of another fel-low, by the name of Ames,who lives down my way,who can halloo as loud asyour Chicago chap. Heis a Democrat, but I guesswill be open to a job. Illtelegraph him to be onhand in the morning, saidCook. The sun rose upon acloudless sky. Each in-coming train brought ad-ditional thousands from Northern Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, andSouthern Wisconsin. Xo one had marshalled them. They^1860^ came to manifest their enthusiasm for the party which stoodpledged to resist the aggressions of slavery. They were moreready to hurrah for Lincoln than for Seward. Lincoln was the repre-sentative of the bone, sinew, and muscle of the younger West; Seward
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EDWARD BATES. 194 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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