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Title: Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by Dr. A.C. Lambdin
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly), 1828-1909
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia : Times Publishing Co.
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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remain abroad, but he declined. On hisreturn home he was nominated by the Liberal Repub-licans for delegate-at-large to the Constitutional Conven-tion, and Ex-Governor Bigler voluntarily retired fromthe Democratic ticket to enable that party to tender Cur-tin an unanimous nomination, resulting in his election.His exceptional experience in State government madehim one of the most practical and useful members ofthe body, and many of the most beneficent reforms ofthe new fundamental law are of his creation. In 1880,and again in 1882 and 1884, he was elected to Congress,and during his six years of service in the House he wasthe favorite of every social and political circle. Sincethen he has enjoyed the mellow evening of his life in hismountain-home, where every face brightens at his com-ing, and on every hillside and valley of the State thereare grizzled veterans and their children and their chil-drens children whose hearts throb with grateful emotionas they speak of the Soldiers Friend.
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(Photo by Brady, Washington.) THADDEUS STEVENS. LINCOLN AND STEVENS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN and Thaddeus Stevens were■^~V strangely mated. Lincoln as President and Stevensas Commoner of the nation during the entire period of oursectional war assumed the highest civil responsibilities inthe administrative and legislative departments of the gov-ernment. While Lincoln was President of the whole peo-ple, Stevens, as Commoner, was their immediate represen-tative and oracle in the popular branch of Congress whenthe most momentous legislative measures of our historywere conceived and enacted. No two men were so muchalike in all the sympath)- of greatness for the friendlessand the lowh, and yet no two men could have beenmore unlike in the methods by which they sought toobtain the same great end. Lincolns humanity wasone of the master attributes of his character, and it wasnext to impossible for him to punish even those most de-ser\dng of it. In Stevens humanity and justice weresingularly blended,

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