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Volume VI,
Number 6
6 February 1961
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Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65,
16th President of the United
States he' was born in a log
cabin in Hardin county, Ken
tucky (now in Larue County)*
The son of Thomas Lincoln and
Nancy Hanks he grew up on the
frontier as family moved.
Moving to Springfield,111,
in 1837 he practiced law there
and became a U, S, Represent
ative in 1847,
Elected President in 1860
he was not an abolitionist but
regarded slavery as an "injust
ice" and an evil and had oppos
ed its extension even when he
was a candidate for the U* S*
Senate in 1858 against Stephen
DougJLas.
His EMANCIPATION PROCLAM
ATION and GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
express the high moral tone
that he sought to give the
Northern cause*
Assassinated by John W.
Booth in 1865*
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Why. sbou/d tb'ertnof be a patient
confidence in ibe u/titnafe justice
of the peopk? /s there any better
or ecjfua/ hope in the wo rid?*
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