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Extract from Gettysburg ode

Bayard Taylor. 225

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Extract from the last annual message—December 6, 1864
John Greenleaf Whittier. 234

Laus Deo!

-London Spectator, April 25 and May 2, 1891

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Walt Whitman. 248

Extract from commemoration ode. James Russell Lowell. 250 Some stories about Lincoln

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CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

Born in a log-cabin near Hodgensville, now Larue county, Kentucky February 12, 1809 His father moves with his family into the wilderness near Gentryville, Indiana

His mother dies, at the age of 35
His father's second marriage ·
Makes a trip to New Orleans and back, at work on a flat-
boat

1816

1818

1819

1828

Drives in an ox-cart with his father and stepmother to a clearing on the Sangamon river, near Decatur, Illinois 1829 Makes another flat-boat trip to New Orleans and back, on which trip he first sees negroes shackled together, and forms his opinions concerning slavery Begins work in a store at New Salem, Illinois Enlists in the Black Hawk war; elected a

volunteers

Announces himself a whig candidate for the

and is defeated

May, 1831 - August, 1831

captain of

Elected to the Illinois legislature

1834

Reëlected to the legislature

1835 to 1842

Studies law at Springfield

1837

Is a presidential elector on the whig national ticket

1840

Marries Mary Todd

November 4, 1842

Canvasses Illinois for Henry Clay

1844

1846

Elected to congress

Engages in law practice

Debates with Douglas at Peoria and Springfield

Aids in organizing the republican party

February, 1860

Joint debates in Illinois with Stephen A. Douglas
Visits New York, and speaks at Cooper Union
Attends republican state convention at Decatur; declared
to be the choice of Illinois for the presidency
Nominated at Chicago as the republican candidate for
president

THE WORDS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

LINCOLN'S FAVORITE POEM.

Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
He passeth from life to his rest in the grave.

The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade,

Be scattered around, and together be laid;

And the young and the old, and the low and the high, Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie.

The infant a mother attended and loved;
The mother that infant's affection who proved;
The husband, that mother and infant who blest,—
Each, all, are away to their dwellings of Rest.

The maid on whose cheek, on whose brow, in whose

eye,

Shone beauty and pleasure,-her triumphs are by;

And the memory of those who loved her and praised, Are alike from the minds of the living erased.