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http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 585.98 | 597.79 | and this may well have been since to a very ambitious man the first practical proofs of popularity are like the first instalment of a great fortune paid to one who is poor | 11.81 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450000 | |
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http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 808.5 | 826.6 | when the company was mustered out in may lincoln at once re-enlisted as a private in a volunteer spy company where he remained for a month until the battle of bad axe which resulted in the capture of black hawk put an end to hostilities this war was not a remarkable affair says j g holland | 18.1 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450002 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,157.34 | 1,169.48 | all of this was conducive in a creditable way to notoriety and popularity and he improved it as such in the autumn of eighteen thirty four a great trouble occurred | 12.14 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450003 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,663.33 | 1,678.98 | said-you may think it was a very little thing but it was a most important incident in my life i could scarcely believe that i a poor boy had earned a dollar in less than a day i was a more hopeful and confident being from that time | 15.65 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450004 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 266.42 | 279.68 | he exercised occasionally in a rough way the calling of a carpenter and wandering from place to place began at different times to cultivate the wilderness but with little success owing to his laziness | 13.26 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450005 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,777.39 | 1,792.98 | and was willing to be alone as a prophet the protest was as follows march third eighteen thirty seven the following protest was presented to the house which was read and ordered to be spread on the journals to wit | 15.59 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450006 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,792.98 | 1,804.82 | resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the general assembly at its present session the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same | 11.84 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450007 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,804.82 | 1,817.72 | they believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils | 12.9 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450008 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_03_leland_64kb.mp3 | 681.18 | 695.3 | to engage in minor political battles and be defeated as would probably be the case in his district where his war vote in congress was still remembered to his disadvantage would have seriously injured his future prospects of every kind | 14.12 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450009 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 624.62 | 642.64 | one day during these many marches and countermarches an old indian weary hungry and helpless found his way into the camp he professed to be a friend of the whites and although it was an exceedingly perilous experiment for one of his colour he ventured to throw himself upon the mercy of the soldiers | 18.02 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450010 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,440.67 | 1,455.51 | those who have spoken most freely of his faults admit that in a country where a whiskey-jug was kept in every house lincoln never touched spirits except to avoid giving offence his stepmother thought he was temperate to a fault | 14.84 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450011 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 796.28 | 807.42 | she was a woman of sense industrious frugal and gifted with a pride which inspired her to lead a far more civilised life than that which satisfied poor tom lincoln | 11.14 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450012 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 232.97 | 247.81 | appears to have been cut with a knife from a shingle and a cigar-box john hanks apparently a most trustworthy and excellent man declared that it was during this trip while at new orleans lincoln first saw negroes chained maltreated and whipped | 14.84 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450013 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,760.5 | 1,777.39 | abraham lincoln presented to the house a protest which he could get but one man dan stone to sign perhaps he did not want any more signatures for he was one of those who foresaw to what this cloud no larger than a man's hand would in future years | 16.89 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450014 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,183 | 1,193.48 | but two good friends named short and bowlin greene bought them in for two hundred and forty five dollars which lincoln faithfully repaid in due time | 10.48 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450015 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_03_leland_64kb.mp3 | 450.32 | 464.8 | his democratic opponent was peter cartwright a celebrated pioneer methodist preacher it is a great proof of lincoln's popularity that he was elected by an unprecedented majority though he was the only whig congressman from illinois | 14.48 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450016 | |
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http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 822.51 | 839.77 | she set about mending matters with great energy and made her husband put down a floor and hang windows and doors it was in the depth of winter and the children as they nestled in the warm beds she had provided enjoying the strange luxury of security from the cold winds of december | 17.26 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450018 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_03_leland_64kb.mp3 | 494.28 | 506.68 | he found it as easy a matter to address his new colleagues as his old clients i was about as badly scared he wrote to w j herndon and no worse as when i speak in court | 12.4 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450019 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,043.43 | 1,056.05 | when not working for his father he was hired out as a farm-labourer to the neighbours his cousin john hanks says we worked barefoot grubbed it ploughed mowed and cradled together | 12.62 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450020 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 252.48 | 266.42 | mordecai the indian killer and his brother josiah remained in virginia and grew up to be respectable prosperous men the younger brother thomas was always idle thriftless poor a hunter and a rover | 13.94 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450021 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 612.93 | 624.62 | one incident of the war however as narrated by lamon not only indicates that abraham lincoln was sometimes in danger but was well qualified to grapple with it | 11.69 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450022 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,455.51 | 1,473.24 | meanwhile as the youth grew apace the neighbouring village of gentryville had grown with him books and cultivated society became more accessible the great man of the place was a mr jones the storekeeper whose shop supplied all kinds of goods required by farmers | 17.73 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450023 | |
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http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 235.56 | 252.48 | is described as hunting the shawnese so we are told this other avenger of blood pursued his foes with unrelenting unscrupulous hatred for days together he would follow peaceable indians as they passed through the settlements in order to get secret shots at them | 16.92 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450026 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_03_leland_64kb.mp3 | 119.03 | 137.16 | from this time for twenty years he followed his great political rival douglas seeking every opportunity to contend with him from eighteen thirty seven he concerned himself little with the politics of his state but entered with zeal into the higher interests of the federal union | 18.13 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450027 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,405.09 | 1,422.32 | meanwhile he became incredibly strong he could carry six hundred pounds with ease he once picked up some huge posts which four men were about to lift and bore them away with little effort men yet alive have seen him lift a full barrel of liquor and drink from the bung-hole he | 17.23 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450028 | |
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http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 224.94 | 235.56 | as allan macaulay in waverley is said to have hunted down the children of the mist or as the quaker nathan in bird's romance of nick of the woods | 10.62 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450031 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,193.48 | 1,207.57 | it is said that he was an accurate surveyor and remarkable for his truthfulness he never speculated in lands nor availed himself of endless opportunities to profit by aiding the speculations of others | 14.09 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450032 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,422.32 | 1,440.67 | he could sink an axe said an old friend deeper into wood than any man i ever saw he was especially skilled in wrestling and from the year eighteen twenty eight there was no man far or near who would compete with him in it from his boyhood he was extremely temperate | 18.35 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450033 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,836.1 | 1,852.5 | but that the power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of the district the difference between these opinions and those contained in the said resolutions is their reason for entering this protest signed dan stone | 16.4 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450034 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 891.53 | 904.84 | he was dutiful to me always abe was the best boy i ever saw or ever expect to see when in after years mr lincoln spoke of his saintly mother and of his angel of a mother | 13.31 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450035 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,207.57 | 1,221.08 | miserably poor and badly clad lincoln though very fond of the society of women was sensitive and shy when they were strangers mr ellis the storekeeper for whom he often worked states that | 13.51 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450036 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,473.24 | 1,492.29 | mr jones took a liking to young lincoln employed him sometimes taught him politics giving him deep impressions in favour of andrew jackson the representative of the democratic party and finally awoke abraham's ambition by admiring him and predicting that he would some day be a great man | 19.05 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450037 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 904.84 | 919.24 | he referred to this noble woman who first made him feel like a human being whose goodness first touched his childish heart and taught him that blows and taunts and degradation were not to be his only portion in the world | 14.4 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450038 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,817.72 | 1,836.1 | they believe that the congress of the united states has no power under the constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different states they believe that the congress of the united states has the power under the constitution to abolish slavery in the district of columbia | 18.38 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450039 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_03_leland_64kb.mp3 | 526.21 | 543.21 | yet they could not in humanity withhold supplies from the army in mexico while fighting bravely so lincoln denounced the war and yet voted the supplies an inconsistency creditable to his heart but which involved him in trouble with his constituents | 17 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450040 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 83.14 | 97.13 | abraham lincoln was now twenty-one and his father had been a hard master taking all his wages he therefore after doing his best to settle the family in their new home went forth to work for himself among the farmers | 13.99 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450041 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,504.72 | 1,524.48 | it was from john baldwin that lincoln derived a great number of the quaint anecdotes with which he was accustomed in after years to illustrate his arguments his memory contained thousands of these drolleries so that eventually there was no topic of conversation which did not put him in mind of a little story | 19.76 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450042 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 871.77 | 891.53 | herndon i can say what not one mother in ten thousand can of a boy abe never gave me a cross look and never refused in fact or appearance to do anything i requested him nor did i ever give him a cross word in all my life his mind and mine-what little i had seemed to run together | 19.76 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450043 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_03_leland_64kb.mp3 | 543.21 | 559.62 | but he struck the administration a severe blow in what was really his first speech before the whole house president polk having declared in a message that the mexicans had invaded our territory and shed the blood of our citizens on our own soil | 16.41 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450044 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 655.21 | 672.79 | did what he should have done before-he threw down before his assailants a soiled and crumpled paper which he implored them to read before taking his life it was a letter of character and safe conduct from general cass pronouncing him a faithful man who had done good service in the cause for which this army was enlisted | 17.58 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450045 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,254.56 | 1,272.16 | one who knew him in this capacity said of him-he is the fairest man i ever had to deal with in eighteen thirty four lincoln again became a successful candidate for the legislature of illinois receiving a larger majority than any other candidate on the ticket | 17.6 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450046 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,221.08 | 1,238.88 | when he lived with him at the tavern there came a lady from virginia with three stylish daughters who remained a few weeks during their stay i do not remember mr lincoln ever eating at the same table where they did i thought it was on account of his awkward appearance and wearing apparel | 17.8 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450047 | |
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http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,872.31 | 1,888.96 | much as lincoln afterwards accomplished for the abolition of slavery he never says holland became more extreme in his views than the words of this protest intimate it was during this session also that he first put himself in direct opposition to douglas by another protest | 16.65 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450049 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 289.79 | 306.58 | he was an inveterate talker or popular teller of stories and anecdotes and a jackson democrat in politics which signified that he belonged to the more radical of the two political parties which then prevailed in america in religion he was says lamon | 16.79 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450050 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_03_leland_64kb.mp3 | 506.68 | 526.21 | during this session the united states were at war with mexico and lincoln was with his party in a painful dilemma they were opposed to the principle of the war since they detested forcible acquisition of territory and it was evident that mexico was wanted by the south to extend the area of slavery | 19.53 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450051 | |
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http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,492.29 | 1,504.72 | another friend was john baldwin the village blacksmith who was even for a western american wag wonderfully clever at a jest and possessed of an inexhaustible fund of stories | 12.43 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450054 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 97.13 | 109.62 | one george cluse who worked with abraham during the first year in illinois says that at that time he was the roughest looking person he ever saw he was tall angular and ungainly | 12.49 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450055 | |
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http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,524.48 | 1,543.87 | in some other respects his acquisitions were less useful though he knew a vast number of ballads he could not sing one and though a reader of burns certain of his own satires and songs levelled at some neighbours who had slighted him were mere doggerel wanting every merit and very bitter | 19.39 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450057 | |
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http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,238.88 | 1,254.56 | there are many anecdotes recorded of this kind showing at this period his poverty his popularity and his kindness of heart he was referee umpire and unquestioned judge in all disputes horse-races or wagers | 15.68 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450060 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,852.5 | 1,872.31 | a lincoln representatives from the county of sangamon this was indeed a very mild protest but it was the beginning of that which in after years grew to be the real emancipation of the negro never in history was so fine an end of the wedge succeeded by such a wide cleaving bulk | 19.81 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450061 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 63.68 | 83.14 | after journeying two hundred miles in fifteen days thomas lincoln settled in moron county on the sangamon river about ten miles west of decatur here they built a cabin of hewn timber with a smoke-house for drying meat and a stable and broke up and fenced fifteen acres of land | 19.46 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450062 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 306.58 | 325.49 | who derived his information from mr w h herndon nothing at times and a member of various denominations by turns in eighteen o six he lived at elizabethtown in hardin county kentucky where in the same year and place he married nancy hanks | 18.91 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450063 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 279.68 | 289.79 | yet he was a man of great strength and vigour and once thrashed the monstrous bully of breckinridge county in three minutes and came off without a scratch | 10.11 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450064 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 858.07 | 871.77 | in her own language she made them look a little more human this excellent woman loved abraham tenderly and her love was warmly returned after his death she declared to mr herndon i | 13.7 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450065 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 758.92 | 769.99 | there was no more disaffection in his camp and the word coward was never coupled with his name again mr lincoln understood his men better than those who would be disposed to criticise his conduct | 11.07 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450066 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,904.26 | 1,922.12 | against this lincoln e d baker and others protested vigorously but without avail both of these protests though failures at the time were in reality the beginnings of the two great principles which led to lincoln's great success and the realisation of his utmost ambition | 17.86 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450067 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_03_leland_64kb.mp3 | 57.05 | 71.47 | he obtained his license as an attorney in eighteen thirty seven and commenced his practice in the march of that year he entered into partnership with his friend j t stewart and lived with the hon w butler | 14.42 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450068 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 934.25 | 947.41 | abraham had gone to school only a few weeks in kentucky and mrs lincoln soon sent him again to receive instruction his first teacher in indiana was hazel dorsey his next andrew crawford | 13.16 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450069 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 338.16 | 348.58 | she could read and write as rare accomplishments in those days in kentucky backwoods as they still are among the poor whites of the south or their western descendants | 10.42 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450070 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 978.97 | 994.56 | it was characteristic of the boy that his first essays were against cruelty to animals his mates were in the habit of catching the box turtles or land terrapins or tortoises and putting live coals on their backs to make them walk which greatly annoyed abraham | 15.59 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450071 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,331.74 | 1,351.49 | in eighteen thirty six he was again elected to the legislature political excitement at this time ran high the country was being settled rapidly and people's minds were wild with speculation in lands and public works from which every man hoped for wealth and which were to be developed by the legislators | 19.75 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450072 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 360.48 | 377.2 | it is to be regretted that president abraham lincoln never spoke except with great reluctance of his early life or of his parents as it is the researches of w h herndon and others have indicated the hereditary sources of his chief characteristics | 16.72 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450073 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 348.58 | 360.48 | in later life she was sadly worn by hard labour both in the house and fields and her features were marked with a melancholy which was probably constitutional and which her son inherited | 11.9 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450074 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,587.63 | 1,600.56 | this was a trip of eighteen hundred miles and then as now the life of an ohio and mississippi boatman was full of wild adventure one incident which befel the future president was sufficiently strange | 12.93 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450075 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 146.03 | 159.25 | from the time of his death and as he advanced in prosperity abraham aided his stepmother in many ways besides sending her money it was at decatur that he made his first public speech standing on a keg | 13.22 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450076 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 173.76 | 190.5 | proposed to john hanks abraham lincoln and john d johnston his stepmother's son to take a flat-boat to new orleans the wages offered were very high fifty cents a day to each man and sixty dollars to be divided among them at the end of the trip | 16.74 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450077 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,543.87 | 1,561.81 | but about eighteen twenty seven he contributed an article on temperance and another on american politics to two newspapers published in ohio from the praise awarded by a lawyer named pritchard to the political article it would appear to have been very well written | 17.94 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450078 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,574.16 | 1,587.63 | in march eighteen twenty eight abraham lincoln was hired by mr gentry the proprietor of gentryville as bow-hand and to work the front oars on a boat going with a cargo of bacon to new orleans | 13.47 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450079 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_03_leland_64kb.mp3 | 625.7 | 643.81 | and his own reputation greatly increased he was thrown out of political employment until the year eighteen fifty four he made great efforts to secure the office of commissioner of the general land office but failed president fillmore it is true offered him the governorship of oregon | 18.11 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450080 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 377.2 | 388.61 | we know that the grandfather was a vigorous backwoodsman who died a violent death that his uncle was a grim and determined manslayer carrying out for years the blood-feud provoked by the murder of his parent | 11.41 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450081 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,888.96 | 1,904.26 | the democrats in order to enable the aliens virtually the irishmen in their state to vote on six months residence passed a bill known as the douglas bill remodelling the judiciary in such a way as to secure judges who would aid them | 15.3 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450082 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 745.81 | 758.92 | this you can guard against choose your weapons returned the captain whatever may be said of mr lincoln's choice of means for the preservation of military discipline it was certainly very effectual in this case | 13.11 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450083 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,284.43 | 1,297.97 | during the session he said very little but worked hard and learned much he was on the committee for public accounts and expenditures and when the session was at an end quietly walked back to his work | 13.54 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450084 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 388.61 | 402.78 | that his mother was habitually depressed and that his father was a favourite of both men and women though a mere savage when irritated fond of fun an endless storyteller physically powerful and hating hard work | 14.17 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450085 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,561.81 | 1,574.16 | even in this first essay in politics lincoln urged the principle by which he became famous and for which he died adherence to the constitution and the integrity of the american union | 12.35 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450086 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_03_leland_64kb.mp3 | 600.85 | 612.89 | at one time he proposed as a substitute for a resolution that slavery be at once abolished by law in the district of columbia another providing that the owners be paid for their slaves | 12.04 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450087 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 697.55 | 711.76 | lincoln knew that his own life was now in only less danger than that of the poor creature that crouched behind him during this scene the towering form and the passion and resolution in lincoln's face produced an effect upon the furious mob | 14.21 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450088 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 109.62 | 127.84 | and wore trousers of flax and tow cut tight at the ankle and out at the knees he was very poor and made a bargain with mrs nancy miller to split four hundred rails for every yard of brown jean dyed with walnut bark that would be required to make him a pair of trousers | 18.22 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450089 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,314.38 | 1,331.74 | at her death lincoln seemed for some weeks nearly insane and was never the same man again from this time he lost his youth and became subject to frequent attacks of intense mental depression resulting in that settled melancholy which never left him | 17.36 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450090 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 919.24 | 934.25 | and if it be recorded of george washington that he never told a lie it should also be remembered of abraham lincoln who carried his country safely through a greater crisis than that of the revolutionary war that he always obeyed his mother | 15.01 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450091 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,600.56 | 1,618.43 | having arrived at a sugar-plantation six miles below baton rouge the boat was pulled in and lincoln with his companion a son of mr gentry went to sleep hearing footsteps in the night they sprang up and saw that a gang of seven negroes were coming on board to rob or murder | 17.87 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450092 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_01_leland_64kb.mp3 | 965.58 | 978.97 | abraham distinguished himself in spelling which has always been a favourite subject for competition in rural america and he soon began to write short original articles though composition formed no part of the studies | 13.39 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450093 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 1,297.97 | 1,314.38 | work lamon relates at full length that at this time lincoln was in love with a young lady who died of a broken heart in eighteen thirty five not however for lincoln but for another young man who had been engaged to and abandoned her | 16.41 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450094 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_03_leland_64kb.mp3 | 43.27 | 57.05 | he determined to live where both law and politics might be followed to the greatest advantage since it was in springfield that in addition to the state courts the circuit and district courts of the united states | 13.78 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450095 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_03_leland_64kb.mp3 | 612.89 | 625.7 | if he did little in this session to attract attention he made for himself a name and was known as a powerful speaker and a rising man but after returning to springfield though a whig president had been elected | 12.81 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450096 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 711.76 | 727.75 | they paused listened fell back and then sullenly obeyed what seemed to be the voice of reason as well as authority but there were still some murmurs of disappointed rage and half-suppressed exclamations which looked towards vengeance of some kind | 15.99 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450097 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_02_leland_64kb.mp3 | 159.25 | 173.76 | it was on the navigation of the sangamon river and was delivered extemporaneously in reply to one by a candidate for the legislature named posey during the winter of eighteen thirty one a trader named denton | 14.51 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450098 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_1706_librivox/abrahamlincolnandtheabolitionofslavery_03_leland_64kb.mp3 | 30.31 | 43.27 | abraham lincoln's career was now clear he was to follow the law for a living as a step to political eminence and as the seat of state government was henceforth to be at springfield | 12.96 | 11004 | 11043 | chunk_0189_row_9450099 |
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