How Abraham Lincoln Became President J Mccan Davis
How Abraham Lincoln Became President J Mccan Davis
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Such was Lincoln the orator. " The times were intensely partisan and both combat- ants suffered unjust attacks in the opposition newspapers. The Chicago Times portrayed Lincoln as an ignorant, illiterate fellow, who scarcely could utter a sentence with- out a grammatical blunder. This was the man who, a few years later, was to be acknowledged one of the great masters of the English tongue. But the personal relations between Douglas and Lin- coln were most cordial throughout the debates, as they... always had been. On the stump Douglas frequently assumed a belligerent attitude ; but this was merely a part of the forensic combat. " My second reason for not hav- How Abraham Lincoln Became President. 49 ing a personal encounter with the Judge, " said Lincoln on one occasion, '* is that I do not believe he wants it him- self. [Laughter. ] He and I are about the best friends in the world and when we get together he would no more think of fighting me than of fighting his wife. " At Free- port it is related that " presently Lincoln and Douglas came out on the balcony of the hotel (the Brewster House).
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