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we, the descendants, supply the places with pillars hewn from the same solid quarry of sober reason.

Passion has helped us, but can do so no more. in future be our enemy.

It will

Reason-cold, calculating, unimpassioned reasonmust furnish all the materials for our support and defense. Let those materials be molded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the constitution and the laws; and then our country shall continue to improve, and our nation, revering his name, and permitting no hostile foot to pass or desecrate his resting place, shall be that to hear the last trump that shall awaken our Washington.

Upon these let the proud fabric of freedom rest as the rock of its basis, and as truly as has been said of the only greater institution, "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."

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LINCOLN'S FIRST SPEECH IN THE
SUPREME COURT.

The case being called, Mr. Lincoln appeared for appellant, and, according to Judge Treat, spoke as follows:

YOUR HONOR: This is the first case I ever had in this court, and I have examined it with great care. As the court will perceive by looking at the abstract of the record, the only question in the case is one of authority. I have not been able to find any authority sustaining my side of the case, but I have found several cases directly in point on the other side. I will now give the citations and then submit the case.

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EXCULPATING THE WHIGS.

Being so much as is on record of a reply to Col. Dick Taylor, a Democrat, who had characterized the Whigs as being "pretentious lords," and very aristocratic, etc,, delivered, says Hon. Ninian W. Edwards, in 1840.

GENTLEMEN:-While he (Col. Taylor) was making these charges against the Whigs riding in fine carriages, wearing ruffled shirts, kid gloves, massive gold watch chains, with large seals, and flourishing a heavy goldheaded cane, I (Lincoln) was a poor boy, hired on a flatboat at eight dollars a month, and had only one pair of breeches, and they were buckskin-and if you know the nature of buckskin, when wet and dried by the sun, they shrink and mine kept shrinking until they left several inches of my legs bare between the tops of my socks and the lower part of my breeches; and whilst I was growing taller they were growing shorter, and so much tighter, that they left a blue streak around my legs that can be seen to this day. If you call this aristocracy, I plead guilty to the charge.

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NATIONAL BANK vs. SUB-TREASURY.

Delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Illinois, and published in the Sangamon Journal, March 6, 1840. The debaters on the question were Messrs. Logan, Baker, Browning and Lincoln, against Douglas, Calhoun, Lamborn and Thomas.

Fellow-CitizeNS: It is peculiarly embarrassing to me to attempt a continuance of the discussion, on this evening, which has been conducted in this hall on several preceding ones.

It is so, because on each of these evenings there was a much fuller attendance than now, without any reason for its being so except the greater interest the community feel in the speaker who addressed them then than they do in him who addresses them now.

I am, indeed, apprehensive that the few who have attended have done so more to spare me of mortification than in the hope of being interested in anything I may be able to say.

This circumstance casts a damp upon my spirits which I am sure I shall be unable to overcome during the evening.

The subject heretofore and now to be discussed is the sub-treasury scheme of the present administration, as a means of collecting, safe-keeping, transferring and disbursing the revenues of the nation as contrasted with a national bank for the same pnrpose.

Mr. Douglas has said that we (the Whigs) have not

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