Semi-Centennial of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates in Ill. 1858-1908. Circular of Suggestions for School Celebrations
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Lincoln in this emergency, they still had misgivings as to whether he was equal to the task of meeting Douglas. Curiously, even yet very few in Illinois had come to regard Mr. Lincoln as what we call a great man. How could so homely, plain, simple, unpretentious, and droll a man be great. He was simply one of the common people; that was all." Outside of Illinois, Mr. Lincoln was then but little known. Less than a year before the Lincoln and Douglas debates, he spent a week at Cincinnati trying ...a lawsuit in company with Edwin M. Stanton, afterwards the great war secretary during the rebellion. Reverdy Johnson was the attorney on the other side of the case. These two great men, Stanton and Johnson, were well known. Lincoln was not; he stayed in Cincinnati a week, moving freely about, yet not twenty men knew him personally, and not a hundred would have known who he was had his name been spoken. Mr. Stanton afterwards described him, from his impressions of that first meeting, as "a long, lank creature from Illinois, wearing a dirty linen duster for a coat, the back of which the perspiration had splotched with stains that resembled a map of the continent." ******* "The people of Illinois were interested from the first.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Lincoln in this emergency, they still had misgivings as to whether he was equal to the task of meeting Douglas. Curiously, even yet very few in Illinois had come to regard Mr. Lincoln as what we call a great man. How could so homely, plain, simple, unpretentious, and droll a man be great. He was simply one of the common people; that was all." Outside of Illinois, Mr. Lincoln was then but little known. Less than a year before the Lincoln and Douglas debates, he spent a week at Cincinnati trying ...a lawsuit in company with Edwin M. Stanton, afterwards the great war secretary during the rebellion. Reverdy Johnson was the attorney on the other side of the case. These two great men, Stanton and Johnson, were well known. Lincoln was not; he stayed in Cincinnati a week, moving freely about, yet not twenty men knew him personally, and not a hundred would have known who he was had his name been spoken. Mr. Stanton afterwards described him, from his impressions of that first meeting, as "a long, lank creature from Illinois, wearing a dirty linen duster for a coat, the back of which the perspiration had splotched with stains that resembled a map of the continent." ******* "The people of Illinois were interested from the first.
What to read after Semi-Centennial of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates in Ill. 1858-1908. Circular of Suggestions for School Celebrations?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Illinois State Historical Library to read onlineMoreLess
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