Image from page 461 of "Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War" (1887)
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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : [The Century Co.]
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had really assumed leader-ship and control in politics. This class of menhad long been held up to public odium. Someof them had, indeed, on previous occasions usedintemperate and offensive language; but moregenerally they were denounced upon a grossmisrepresentation of their utterance and pur-pose. It so happened that they were mostlyof Democratic antecedents, which gave themgreat influence among antislavery Democrats,but made their advice and argument exceed-ingly distasteful in strong Whig counties andcommunities. The fact that they now becamemore prudent, conciliatory, and practical intheir speeches and platforms did not immedi-ately remove existing prejudice against them.A few of these appeared in Illinois. CassiusM. Clay published a letter in which he advo-cated the fusion of anti-Nebraska voters upon Benton, Seward, Hale, or any other good citi-zen, and afterwards made a series of speechesin Illinois. When he came to Springfield, theDemocratic officers in charge refused him the
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CASSIUS M. CLAY. rROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRADY. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 859 use of the rotunda of the State House, a circum-stance, however, which only served to draw hima larger audience in a neighboring grove. Lat-er in the summer Giddings and Chase of Ohiomade a political tour through the State, andat Springfield the future Secretary and Chief-Justice addressed an unsympathetic audienceof a few hundreds in the dingy little court-house, almost unheralded, save by the epithetsof the Democratic newspapers. A few localspeakers of this class, of superior address andforce, now also began to signalize themselvesby a new-born zeal and an attractive eloquence.Conspicuous among these was Owen Lovejoyof northern Illinois, brother of the man whofor opinions sake had been so shamefullymurdered at Alton. While thus in the northern half of Illinois thepublic condemnation of Douglass repeal wasimmediate and sweeping, the formation of op-position to it was tentative and slow in the cen-tral and southern coun
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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : [The Century Co.]
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had really assumed leader-ship and control in politics. This class of menhad long been held up to public odium. Someof them had, indeed, on previous occasions usedintemperate and offensive language; but moregenerally they were denounced upon a grossmisrepresentation of their utterance and pur-pose. It so happened that they were mostlyof Democratic antecedents, which gave themgreat influence among antislavery Democrats,but made their advice and argument exceed-ingly distasteful in strong Whig counties andcommunities. The fact that they now becamemore prudent, conciliatory, and practical intheir speeches and platforms did not immedi-ately remove existing prejudice against them.A few of these appeared in Illinois. CassiusM. Clay published a letter in which he advo-cated the fusion of anti-Nebraska voters upon Benton, Seward, Hale, or any other good citi-zen, and afterwards made a series of speechesin Illinois. When he came to Springfield, theDemocratic officers in charge refused him the
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CASSIUS M. CLAY. rROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRADY. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 859 use of the rotunda of the State House, a circum-stance, however, which only served to draw hima larger audience in a neighboring grove. Lat-er in the summer Giddings and Chase of Ohiomade a political tour through the State, andat Springfield the future Secretary and Chief-Justice addressed an unsympathetic audienceof a few hundreds in the dingy little court-house, almost unheralded, save by the epithetsof the Democratic newspapers. A few localspeakers of this class, of superior address andforce, now also began to signalize themselvesby a new-born zeal and an attractive eloquence.Conspicuous among these was Owen Lovejoyof northern Illinois, brother of the man whofor opinions sake had been so shamefullymurdered at Alton. While thus in the northern half of Illinois thepublic condemnation of Douglass repeal wasimmediate and sweeping, the formation of op-position to it was tentative and slow in the cen-tral and southern coun
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