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Image from page 344 of "Abraham Lincoln; a history" (1890)
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Identifier: abrahamlincolnhi01nico
Title: Abraham Lincoln; a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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looking politically upon a new heaven anda new earth,— for the vast change in our moraland economic condition might justify so audaciousa phrase,— when there was scarcely a man on thecontinent who had not greatly shifted his point ofview in a dozen years, there was so little changein Mr. Lincoln. The same hatred of slavery, thesame sympathy with the slave, the same considera-tion for the slaveholder as the victim of a systemhe had inherited, the same sense of divided respon-sibility between the South and the North, the samedesire to effect great reforms with as little in-dividual damage and injury, as little disturbanceof social conditions as possible, were equallyevident when the raw pioneer signed the protestwith Dan Stone at Vandalia, when the mature manmoved the resolution of 1849 in the Capitol, andwhen the President gave the sanction of his boldsignature to the act which swept away the slave-shambles from the city of Washington.His term in Congress ended on the 4th of March,

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JOSHUA E. GIDDINGS THE imm OF TtiE A FORTUNATE ESCAPE 289 1849, and he was not a candidate for reelection. A chap. xvi.year before he had contemplated the possibility ofentering the field again. He then wrote to hisfriend and partner Herndon: It is very pleasantfor me to learn from you that there are some whodesire that I should be reelected. I most heartilythank them for their kind partiality; and I can say,as Mr. Clay said of the annexation of Texas, thatpersonally I would not object to a reelection,although I thought at the time [of his nomina-tion], and still think, it would be quite as well forme to return to the law at the end of a single term.I made the declaration that I would not be a can-didate again, more from a wish to deal fairly withothers, to keep peace among our friends, and keepthe district from going to the enemy, than for anycause personal to myself, so that, if it should sohappen that nobody else wishes to be elected, Icould not refuse the people the right of sendi

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