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قراءة كتاب Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865
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class="x-ebookmaker-pageno" title="[ix]"/> understood—the more he says one thing, the more his adversaries contend he meant something else." I am now yielding to these influences with the hope that however much the book may suggest a "patchwork quilt" and be permeated with Lamon as well as Lincoln, it will yet appeal to those readers who care for documentary evidence in matters historical.
Dorothy Lamon Teillard.
Washington, D. C.,
April, 1911.
CONTENTS.
| Letter from Ex-Secretary Usher. | |
| Letter from A. K. McClure. | |
| Memoir of Ward H. Lamon. | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Page | |
| EARLY ACQUAINTANCE. | |
| Prominent Features of Mr. Lincoln's Life written by himself | 9 |
| Purpose of Present Volume | 13 |
| Riding the Circuit | 14 |
| Introduction to Mr. Lincoln | 14 |
| Difference in Work in Illinois and in Virginia | 15 |
| Mr. Lincoln's Victory over Rev. Peter Cartwright | 15 |
| Lincoln Subject Enough for the People | 16 |
| Mr. Lincoln's Love of a Joke—Could "Contribute Nothing to the End in View" | 16 |
| A Branch of Law Practice which Mr. Lincoln could not learn | 17 |
| Refusal to take Amount of Fee given in Scott Case | 18 |
| Mr. Lincoln tried before a Mock Tribunal | 19 |
| Low Charges for Professional Service | 20 |
| Amount of Property owned by Mr. Lincoln when he took the Oath as President of the United States | 20 |
| Introduction to Mrs. Lincoln | 21 |
| Mrs. Lincoln's Prediction in 1847 that her Husband would be President | 21 |
| The Lincoln and Douglas Senatorial Campaign in 1858 | 22 |
| "Smelt no Royalty in our Carriage" | 22 |
| Mr. Lincoln denies that he voted against the Appropriation for Supplies to Soldiers during Mexican War | 23 |
| Jostles the Muscular Democracy of a Friend | 24 |
| Political Letter of 1858 | 26 |
| Prediction of Hon. J. G. Blaine regarding Lincoln and Douglas | 27 |
| Time between Election and Departure for Washington | 28 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| JOURNEY FROM SPRINGFIELD TO WASHINGTON. | |
| Mr. Lincoln's Farewell to his Friends in Springfield | 30 |
| At Indianapolis | 32 |
| Speeches made with the Object of saying Nothing | 33 |
| At Albany—Letter of Mr. Thurlow Weed | 34 |
| Loss of |