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"And Lincoln said Seward reminded him of a hired man out West who came to the farmer one afternoon with news that one of a yoke of oxen had dropped dead.
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

Lincoln in Depth: Thirteenth Amendment
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Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial preserves the site of the farm where Abraham Lincoln lived from 7 to 21.
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From the Founder of the Lincoln Institute

Lincoln at Peoria

The Turning Point

by Lewis E. Lehrman

Students of Abraham Lincoln know the canon of his major speeches — from his Lyceum Speech of 1838 to his “Final Remarks” delivered from a White House window, days before he was murdered in 1865. Less well-known are the two speeches given at Springfield and Peoria two weeks apart in 1854. They marked Mr. Lincoln’s reentry into the politics of Illinois and, as he could not know, his preparation for the Presidency in 1861. These Lincoln addresses catapulted him into the debates over slavery which dominated Illinois and national politics for the rest of the decade.

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Stephen A. Douglas
Abraham Lincoln's White House

ANSWER KEY

Abraham Lincoln and Illinois Leaders

1: Democratic State Senator who opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He later served as a general in the Union Army and governor of Illinois.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

2: Southern-sympathizing Democratic congressman from southern Illinois who became a Union-supporting, death-defying general in the Civil War. �Black Jack� later became a U.S. Senator.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

3: Democratic congressman who resigned to raise his own brigade. He aspired to be the leading Union general in the Mississippi who would lead the attack on Vicksburg. His ego and conflicts with West Point-educated generals led to his dismissal from command � despite a close relationship with the President.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

4: After years in the shadow of Illinois�s senior senator, this long-time congressman emerged to take his place in the Senate over a year after his death.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

5: Whig Congressman whose opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act drew Mr. Lincoln back into politics in 1854. He was elected Governor in 1860 and was a strong supporter of the war effort.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

6: Lincoln friend who was appointed to fill out an unexpired Senate term in June 1861. He frequently visited the White House and gave the President unsolicited and unaccepted advice. In 1862, he was lukewarm on emancipation � like many in Illinois � and was defeated for reelection.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

7: Illinois Senator whose sponsorship of the Kansas-Nebraska legislation repealing the Missouri Compromise compelled Mr. Lincoln to reenter politics in 1854.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

8: Illinois Senator who lost his seat in 1855 after controversy over the Kansas-Nebraska Act weakened his Democratic base in the Illinois State Legislature. Earlier, he had engaged in a near-duel with Abraham Lincoln. Later, he served as a Senator from Missouri and Minnesota.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

9: Chicago editor and politician who served two terms as mayor after leaving Congress in 1855. He was rumored as a possible rival to Mr. Lincoln for the Republican Senate nomination in 1858.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

10: Republican politician who recruited John Hanks to parade into the Illinois State Republican Convention in 1860 � holding aloft a sign held by two �rails� supposedly split by Hanks and Abraham Lincoln. He later served as Illinois Governor.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.