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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Abraham Lincoln - -Author: William Eleroy Curtis - -Release Date: April 14, 2013 [EBook #42526] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ABRAHAM LINCOLN *** - - - - -Produced by Charlene Taylor, Charlie Howard, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42526 ***</div> <h1>ABRAHAM LINCOLN</h1> @@ -1227,7 +1189,7 @@ the trip. The nature of part of the 'cargo load,' as it was called, made it necessary for them to linger and trade along the sugar-coast, and one night they were attacked by seven negroes with intent to kill and rob -them. They were hurt some in the mêlée, but succeeded +them. They were hurt some in the mêlée, but succeeded in driving the negroes from the boat, and then 'cut cable,' 'weighed anchor,' and left."</p> @@ -1342,7 +1304,7 @@ it with his thumb and forefinger at the extreme end of the handle, hold it out on a horizontal line from his body. "When I was eighteen years of age I could do this," he said with pride, "and I have never seen the day since -when I could not do it." The attachés of the office of +when I could not do it." The attachés of the office of the Secretary of War relate curious stories of his frequent displays of muscular strength when he visited the War Department to read the despatches from his generals. @@ -2510,7 +2472,7 @@ it did not amount to more than a year," and he afterwards told a friend that he "read through every book he ever heard of in that country for a circuit of fifty miles." These included Weems's "Life of Washington," -Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," Æsop's "Fables," +Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," Æsop's "Fables," "Robinson Crusoe," a History of the United States whose author is not named, the Bible, and the Statutes of Indiana.</p> @@ -2587,7 +2549,7 @@ a common man.</p> <p>He never lost his love for "Pilgrim's Progress" or "Robinson Crusoe." The characters in both were real -to him, and to the end of his days he could repeat Æsop's +to him, and to the end of his days he could repeat Æsop's "Fables" verbatim.</p> <p>In those days schools were very scarce and poor; the @@ -3162,7 +3124,7 @@ saith not."</p> refused to pay Lincoln a fee charged for trying a case for the Illinois Central Railroad, but it is not true. At the time referred to (1855) Captain McClellan was in -the regular army and a military attaché in Europe during +the regular army and a military attaché in Europe during the Crimean War. It was, however, the only time that Lincoln sued for a fee, and the circumstances were as follows. By its charter the Illinois Central Railroad @@ -3894,7 +3856,7 @@ and knew him better than any other men, say, "Nothing would more have amazed Mr. Lincoln than to hear himself called a man of letters; but this age had produced few greater writers. Emerson ranks him with -Æsop; Montalembert commends his style as a model +Æsop; Montalembert commends his style as a model for princes. It is true that in his writing the range of subjects is not great. He was chiefly concerned with the political problems of the time and the moral considerations @@ -4180,7 +4142,7 @@ spread, and he had the satisfaction of knowing that in all the State no man possessed the confidence of the public so completely as he and none was listened to with more attention or greater respect. In 1856, during -the Frémont campaign, he was recognized as the foremost<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">98</a></span> +the Frémont campaign, he was recognized as the foremost<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">98</a></span> leader on the Republican side, and had a narrow escape from being nominated for Vice-President.</p> @@ -4388,7 +4350,7 @@ the repeal of what is called "The Missouri Compromise." That was a law passed in 1820 for the admission of the Territory of Missouri to the Union as a slave State, upon a condition that slavery should not go north -of its northern boundary, latitude 36° 30'. Lincoln +of its northern boundary, latitude 36° 30'. Lincoln shared the national indignation. Douglas, then in the United States Senate, was one of the advocates of the repeal, and his powerful influence in Congress made it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">103</a></span> @@ -4546,7 +4508,7 @@ thereafter animated by a single purpose and resolution.</p> <p>As in former campaigns, Lincoln was placed upon the electoral ticket and made fifty or more speeches in Illinois -and the adjoining States for Frémont in his contest +and the adjoining States for Frémont in his contest against Buchanan for the Presidency in 1856.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">107</a></span> @@ -4997,7 +4959,7 @@ his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly at no distant day to be President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face post-offices, land-offices, -marshalships, and Cabinet appointments, chargé-ships +marshalships, and Cabinet appointments, chargé-ships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. And as they have been gazing upon @@ -6240,7 +6202,7 @@ meet at Bloomington in May.</p> is described in Chapter III., was sent as a delegate to the First National Republican Convention at Philadelphia, and, much to his surprise, received 110 votes for -Vice-President on the ticket with Frémont. He was +Vice-President on the ticket with Frémont. He was made an elector, canvassed the State thoroughly, making more than fifty set speeches during the campaign, and served as a member of the State Committee.</p> @@ -8952,7 +8914,7 @@ do it in open day, for I cannot recall the nomination."</p> <p>The significance and appropriateness of Mr. Fessenden's nomination to succeed Mr. Chase was immediately -recognized as a <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">coup d'état</i> on the part of the President, +recognized as a <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">coup d'état</i> on the part of the President, and the former could not decline the responsibility. He served for only a few months, however, and was succeeded by Hugh McCulloch.</p> @@ -9401,7 +9363,7 @@ next.'"</p> said, "I called on the President respecting the appointments I had recommended under the conscription law, and took occasion to refer to the failure of General -Frémont to get a command. He said he did not +Frémont to get a command. He said he did not know where to place him, and that it reminded him of the old man who advised his son to take a wife,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">226</a></span> to which the young man responded, 'Whose wife shall @@ -10201,7 +10163,7 @@ heroes, the idols of the public, invariably caused the most confusion and showed the most flagrant indiscretion<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">246</a></span> and incompetence. Second only in popularity to McClellan, perhaps even higher in the esteem of the -Republican party, was John C. Frémont, the first candidate +Republican party, was John C. Frémont, the first candidate of that party for the Presidency, a man whose adventures as an explorer had excited the admiring interest of every school-boy, and whose activity in @@ -10239,7 +10201,7 @@ questions, issuing commissions to his friends, and giving contracts with such a lavish hand and in such an irregular<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">247</a></span> way as to provoke protest from the accounting officers of the government. Political intrigue and distrust -were so prevalent that Frémont was accused of an +were so prevalent that Frémont was accused of an ambition to lead a new secession movement, separate the Western States from the Union, and establish an empire under his own sovereignty similar to that of which @@ -10247,7 +10209,7 @@ Aaron Burr is supposed to have dreamed.</p> <p>President Lincoln watched with anxiety and sorrow the dethronement of another popular idol, and defended -and protected Frémont with the same charity and +and protected Frémont with the same charity and patience he had shown to McClellan. Instead of removing him from command, as he should have done, he endeavored to shield him from the consequences of his @@ -10255,7 +10217,7 @@ mismanagement, and sent General David Hunter, an old friend and veteran officer in whom he had great confidence, this request:</p> -<p>"General Frémont needs assistance which is difficult +<p>"General Frémont needs assistance which is difficult to give him. He is losing the confidence of men near him, whose support any man in his position must have to be successful.... He needs to have by his side a @@ -10265,16 +10227,16 @@ to it; but will you not serve your country and oblige me by taking it voluntarily."</p> <p>With this letter General Hunter went to St. Louis to -try and save Frémont, but it was too late. Frémont's +try and save Frémont, but it was too late. Frémont's principal political backing came from the Blair family, who were also his warmest personal friends; but, when they endeavored to advise and restrain him, a quarrel -broke out and Frémont placed General Frank P. Blair +broke out and Frémont placed General Frank P. Blair under arrest. Blair preferred formal charges against his commander; and his father and brother, the latter -being Postmaster-General, demanded Frémont's removal +being Postmaster-General, demanded Frémont's removal on account of incapacity. Then, to increase Lincoln's -anxieties and perplexities, Mrs. Jessie Benton Frémont, +anxieties and perplexities, Mrs. Jessie Benton Frémont, the daughter of Senator Benton and a romantic figure in American history, appeared in Washington to conduct<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">248</a></span> her husband's side of the quarrel, denouncing the @@ -10282,44 +10244,44 @@ Blairs and all other critics with unmeasured contempt and earnestness.</p> <p>The President confesses that he was exasperated -almost beyond endurance. Mrs. Frémont, he says, +almost beyond endurance. Mrs. Frémont, he says, "sought an audience with me at midnight, and attacked me so violently with many things that I had to exercise all the awkward tact I had to avoid quarrelling with her. She more than once intimated that if General -Frémont should decide to try conclusions with me, he +Frémont should decide to try conclusions with me, he could set up for himself."</p> <p>While the weary President was spending sleepless nights planning the reorganization of the Army of the Potomac and an offensive campaign to satisfy public clamor, he endeavored to arbitrate the quarrel between -Frémont and the Blairs. In the midst of his efforts -at conciliation, General Frémont startled the country +Frémont and the Blairs. In the midst of his efforts +at conciliation, General Frémont startled the country and almost paralyzed the President by issuing an emancipation proclamation and an order that all persons found with arms in their hands should be shot. The President wrote him a gentle but firm remonstrance, "in a spirit of caution and not of censure," he said, and sent it by special messenger to St. Louis, "in order that -it may certainly and speedily reach you." Mrs. Frémont +it may certainly and speedily reach you." Mrs. Frémont brought the reply to Washington. It was an -apology mixed with defiance. Frémont asserted that he +apology mixed with defiance. Frémont asserted that he had acted from convictions of duty with full deliberation, and proceeded at length to argue the justice and expediency of the step; and he was as much encouraged in his defiance as Lincoln was embarrassed by the radical -Republican leaders and newspapers of the North. Frémont's +Republican leaders and newspapers of the North. Frémont's proclamation was revoked by order of the President, but it was not so easy to correct the mistakes he had made in administration. Finally, after long deliberation and upon the advice of three experienced officers in whom he had great confidence and who had -been with Frémont and were familiar with his conduct<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">249</a></span> +been with Frémont and were familiar with his conduct<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">249</a></span> and the political and military situation, the President relieved him from command.</p> -<p>Frémont accepted the inevitable with dignity. He +<p>Frémont accepted the inevitable with dignity. He issued a farewell address to his army, was given ovations by radical Republicans in different parts of the country, but was not again intrusted with an independent @@ -10429,7 +10391,7 @@ and best-equipped officers in the Union army, and was intended to be the successor of General Scott, was equally dilatory, although he had a better excuse, because, when he assumed command at St. Louis, succeeding -General Frémont, he found the whole department in +General Frémont, he found the whole department in a deplorable condition, and was working with great energy and ability to organize and equip an army for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">252</a></span> the field. It is undoubtedly the case that both Buell @@ -11145,7 +11107,7 @@ never sent.</p> <p>It is impossible in the limits of this volume to relate the details of the war, but from the detached incidents that have been given, and the narrative of his relations -with Scott, McClellan, Frémont, Grant, and other generals +with Scott, McClellan, Frémont, Grant, and other generals referred to in this chapter, the reader may form a clear and accurate conception of Abraham Lincoln's military genius and the unselfish and often ill-advised @@ -11774,7 +11736,7 @@ Others came asking help or mercy; they usually pressed forward, careless in their pain as to what ears should overhear their prayer. But there were many who lingered in the rear and leaned against the wall, hoping -each to be the last, that they might in <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">tête-à-tête</i> unfold +each to be the last, that they might in <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">tête-à -tête</i> unfold their schemes for their own advantage or their neighbor's hurt. These were often disconcerted by the President's loud and hearty, 'Well, friend, what can I do for @@ -11962,7 +11924,7 @@ the door of a larder and solemnly pointed to the hanging carcass of a gigantic sheep.</p> <p>"'There,' said he; 'now you know what "<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Revenons -à nos moutons</i>" means. It was raised by Deacon Buffum +à nos moutons</i>" means. It was raised by Deacon Buffum at Manchester, up in New Hampshire. Who can say, after looking at it, that New Hampshire's only product is granite?'"</p> @@ -13870,7 +13832,7 @@ the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the Constitution if, to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the wreck of government, country, and Constitution all together. When, early in the war, General -Frémont attempted military emancipation, I forbade +Frémont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it, because I did not then think it an indispensable necessity. When, a little later, General Cameron, then Secretary of War, suggested the arming of the blacks, I @@ -14247,7 +14209,7 @@ and conclusively, and at the same time with what tact and diplomacy, he rebuked Seward's suggestion that he should surrender the prerogatives of his office to the Secretary of State, how positive yet how gentle was his -treatment of Frémont, and how thorough his knowledge +treatment of Frémont, and how thorough his knowledge of the laws of nations is disclosed by his correspondence concerning the movement of troops through Maryland and Virginia, regarding the suspension of the writ of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_347" id="Page_347">347</a></span> @@ -16786,10 +16748,10 @@ of an heroic epoch."</p> <td class="tdl">"Freeport Doctrine," Douglas's,</td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_107">107</a>, <a href="#Page_120">120</a></td></tr> <tr> - <td class="tdl">Frémont, General John C.,</td> + <td class="tdl">Frémont, General John C.,</td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_246">246</a></td></tr> <tr> - <td class="tdl">Frémont, Mrs.,</td> + <td class="tdl">Frémont, Mrs.,</td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_247">247</a></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdl">Fry, General James F.,</td> @@ -17822,383 +17784,6 @@ regularized to "fugitive-slave law" in this eBook.</p> His name also appears without a colon on <a href="#Page_98">page 98</a>.</p> </div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Abraham Lincoln, by William Eleroy Curtis - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ABRAHAM LINCOLN *** - -***** This file should be named 42526-h.htm or 42526-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/5/2/42526/ - -Produced by Charlene Taylor, Charlie Howard, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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