Boy scouts' life of Lincoln by Tarbell Ida M. (Ida Minerva) 1857-1944

Author:Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, Presidents, Presidents
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Published: 1921-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

and at the end found themselves standing on the tables, shouting at the top of their lungs.

Because of their excitement, no report was made for the newspapers and all over Illinois the speech was known as "Lincoln's Lost Speech," and men who heard it told, as long as they lived, of its greatness. His law partner, Mr. Herndon, who like the reporters, at the end of ten minutes threw down the pencil with which he was taking notes, declared that "If Mr. Lincoln was 6 feet and 4 inches high usually, at Bloomington that day he was 7 feet and inspired at that."

An exciting summer followed the convention. The Republicans had their first full ticket—State and national—in the field, and the Illinois men of different parties who had united at Bloomington pulled together as if they had been trained from boyhood to the same political harness. Their resolution and indignation was kept at white heat by the civil war that then raged in Kansas. The territory was soon to seek statehood under Douglas' bill, and between the settlers who were determined to make it a slave State and those who were equally determined it should remain free there was open warfare.

In Illinois the Republicans proclaimed: "The Missouri Compromise must be restored, Kansas shall be free." With such campaign cries in a State so devoted to Douglas it was wonderful that there was no violence; and that there was none was, in no small measure, due to Lincoln who constantly preached self-control to his associates and in his

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