THE f LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES \\ HON. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, With a Portrait on Steel. OF TO WHICH IS ADDED A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HON. HANNIBAL HAMLIN. BY D. W. BARTLETT WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT OF THE NEW-YORK INDEPENDENT AND EVENING POST, New-York: H. DAYTON, PUBLISHER, No. 36 HOWARD STREET. 1860. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1830, by H. DAYTON, In the Clerk's office, of the District Court, for the Southern District of New-York. CONTENTS. PART FIRST. EARLY HISTORY. Lincoln's Birth and Parentage.. Removal to Illinois... Employed in splitting Rails... Enlists as a Volunteer in the Black-Hawk War, and serves through the Buys a Stock of Goods on Credit, and opens a Store... Studies Law.. Practises Surveying. His Position on the Slavery Question in 1837. PART SECOND. IN CONGRESS, Elected to Congress in 1846.. His Votes in Favor of Harbor and River Improvements. Slavery in the District of Columbia.. Vote of Supplies for the War.. PAGE. 15 17 18 18 19 19 The Ten-Regiment Bill. Webster's Speech on..... 27 27 .28, 29 .28, 32, 42 29 33 34 36 36, 42 36 37 39 41 42 48 The Slave Case of Antonio Pacheco.. Lincoln's Amendment to Gott's Resolution.. A Member of the National Whig Convention of 1848. The Illinois Campaign of 1854. Declines Election to the United States Senate, in favor of Trumbull...... Ratification by the People.. Unanimous Commendations of the Press.... Mr. Lincoln at Home..... Visit of the Committee to Notify him of his Nomination... A Campaign Song. |