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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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SEVEN YEARS OF ACTIVE LIFE 119 still. Yery little money passed between buyer and seller. The mer-chant was obliged to take farm produce at low price in exchange forhis goods. Creditors were suing those who owed them. Law^yers weremaking out writs and trying cases. Taxes were especially burdensomeby the action of State officials, who refused all bank-bills and demandedgold or silver, which had disappeared from circulation. People sawtheir farms sold for taxes and were powerless to prevent the sale.
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NEGRO CAKINS ON A KENTUCKY PLANTATION. The official most active in this period of financial distress was Mr.Shields, an emigrant from Ireland, who had been elected State Auditor.He was believed by many to be vain, egotistical, and pompous in tliedischarge of the duties of the office. The Auditor regarded himselfwith much complacency when in the society of ladies, and lost no op-portunity of showing them attentions. He was a Democrat, whereasquite a number of the young ladies of Springfield were ardent Whigs,especially Miss Mary Todd and Miss Julia Jayne. The action ofShields in refusing to receive bank-bills in payment for taxes gave 120 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. great offence. He was bitterly denounced. Abraham Lincoln gaveutterance to no denunciation, but, knowing Shields was sensitive toridicule, adopted a far different method of attack. The Spring-field Journal, the last week in August, contained a letter whichset the Whigs to laughing, but which irritated Mr. Shields. It waswritte

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