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PARENTAGE — CHILDHOOD IN KENTUCKY – YOUTH IN
INDIANA ....
...
CHAPTER III.
REMOVAL TO ILLINOIS—CAPTAIN IN BLACK HAWK WAR
- PosTMASTER, SURVEYOR, LEGISLATOR — MENARD
LEGENDS ....................................... 25
CHAPTER IV.
ADMITTED to the BAR — REMOVAL TO SPRINGFIELD —
Law — POLITICS -- PERSONALITIES ................ 48
CHAPTER V.
MARY TODD — BROKEN ENGAGEMENT — DEPRESSION —
Visit to KENTUCKY — LETTER TO Miss SPEED — Law
CASE ...
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......... 61
CHAPTER VI..
TEMPERANCE ADDRESS — DIFFICULTY WITH SHIELDS —
MARRIAGE — CONGRESSIONAL ASPIRATIONS — ANNEX-
ATION OF TEXAS — WAR WITH MEXICO - ELECTED TO
CONGRESS ....................................... 71
IN CONGRESS — SPEECH ON THE MEXICAN WAR —
Favors NOMINATION OF GENERAL TAYLOR-SPEECHES
ON INTERNAL LM PROVEMENTS AND PRESIDENTIAL
NOMINEES — WILMOT PROVISO.................... 84
CHAPTER VIII.
IN CONGRESS — SPEECHES IN NEW ENGLAND — SECOND
SESSION — SLAVERY TURMOIL — No OFFICE FROM
TAYLOR — WHIG CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR.......... 96
CHAPTER IX.
PROFESSIONAL WORK AND WAYS — HOME AND FAMILY
- EULOGY ON HENRY CLAY — RAIIWAY AND REAPER
CASES ..........................................110
CHAPTER X.
THE "NEBRASKA” SURPRISE........................123
CHAPTER XI.
FIRST ANTI-NEBRASKA CAMPAIGN — PEORIA SPEECH -
TRUMBULL ELECTED SENATOR.....................130
CHAPTER XII.
ANTI-NEBRASKA COALITION — KANSAS CONFLICT — Rr-
PUBLICAN PARTY ORGANIZED — FREMONT BEATEN
BY BUCHANAN - DRED Scott DECISION — CASES IN
COURT .........................................139
CHAPTER XIII.
THE LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION — ANOTHER DEMO-
CRATIC SCHISM — LINCOLN A CANDIDATE FOR SEN-
ATOR — "HOUSE-DIVIDED” SPEECH................156
THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE.......
...170
CHAPTER XV.
ON THE VERGE OF A New EPOCH – LETTERS AND AD-
DRESSES — INCIDENTS AND PORTENTS — John BROWN
AT HARPER'S FERRY — CHAOS IN CONGRESS.........196
CHAPTER XVI.
The Chicago CONVENTION – LINCOLN NOMINATED FOR
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216
PRESIDENT
.....................................210
CHAPTER XVII.
THE PRESIDENTIAL CanvaSS — A QUADRILATERAL Con-
TEST ................... .......................226
CHAPTER XVIII.
South CAROLINA LEADS A REVOLT- SECESSION TUMULT
IN THE GULF STATES — The PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDES
HIS TIME.......................................236
CHAPTER XIX.
EMBARRASSMENTS OF PRESIDENT BUCHANAN — MAJOR
ROBERT ANDERSON AND FORT SUMTER — PLANS FOR
PACIFICATION — “CONFEDERATE STATES ”..........250
CHAPTER XX.
ON THE WAY TO THE WHITE House. ................ 260
CHAPTER XXI.
INAUGURATION – CABINET AND DIPLOMATIC APPOINT-
MENTS .........................................277
CHAPTER XXII.
PAGE
First Forty Days — The FORT SUMTER PROBLEM....285
CHAPTER XXIII.
LOYAL UPRISING — PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S PROCLAMA-
TION — FOUR MORE STATES REVOLT – THE CAPITAL
ISOLATED ..
...295
CHAPTER XXIV.
TAKING UP THE BURDEN OF WAR — PRESIDENT AND
CONGRESS ....
....
................ 300
CHAPTER XXV.
A BATTLE — OUTLOOK AT HOME AND ABROAD.........331
CHAPTER XXVI.'
CONGRESS — War-MAKING ON SLAVE SOil — AFFAIRS
IN THE WEST —— ARMY AND Navy OPERATIONS ON
THE Coast......
..........344
CHAPTER XXVII.
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC — BALL'S BLUFF — MCCLELLAN
SUCCEEDS SCOTT — MESSAGE TO CONGRESS — THE
TRENT TROUBLE....
............362
ILLUSTRATIONS.
VOLUME I.
PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, FROM PORTRAIT BY
CARPENTER, ENGRAVED BY HALPIN..........Frontispiece
FACSIMILE OF LETTER FROM SALMON P. CHASE... Page 207