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Title: Abraham Lincoln; a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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y of our early Presidents fixed upon as thefinal asylum of the red men retreating before theadvance of white settlements. But now the un-controllable stream of emigration had broken intoand through this reservation, creating in a fewyears well-defined routes of travel to New Mexico,Utah, California, and Oregon. Though from thelong march there came constant cries of danger anddistress, of starvation and Indian massacre, therewas neither halting nor delay. The courageouspioneers pressed forward all the more earnestly, andto such purpose that in less than twenty-five yearsthe Pacific Eailroad followed Fremonts first ex-ploration through the South Pass. Douglas, himself a migratory child of fortune, wasin thorough sympathy with this somewhat prema-ture Western longing of the people ; and as chair-man of the Committee on Territories was therecipient of aU the letters, petitions, and personalsolicitations from the various interests which wereseeking their advantage in this exodus toward the
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FRANKLIN PIERCE. THE i\MiOF THEUJilVE?iSlTY OF IIU^^QIS THE EEPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPEOMISE 337 setting sun. He was the natural center for all the chap.xix.embryo mail contractors, office-holders, Indiantraders, land-sharks, and railroad visionaries whosecoveted opportunities lay in the Western territories.It is but just to his fame, however, to say that hecomprehended equally well the true philosophicaland political necessities which now demanded theopening of Kansas and Nebraska as a secure high-way and protecting bridge to the Rocky Moun-tains and our new-found El Dorado, no less thanas a bond of union between the older States andthe improvised Young America on the Pacificcoast. The subject was not yet ripe for actionduring the stormy politics of 1850-1, and hadagain to be postponed for the presidential cam-paign of 1852. But after Pierce was triumphantlyelected, with a Democratic Congress to sustain him,the legislative calm which both parties had adjuredin their platforms seemed

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