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PERFECT JESUS
Among several 'good things,' the President told of a Southern Illinois preacher who, in the course of his sermon, asserted that the Savior was the only perfect man who had ever appeared in this world; also, that there was no record in the Bible, or elsewhere, of any perfect woman having lived on earth.
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other."

'House-Divided' Speech in Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858

The Road to Freedom
The Emancipation Proclamation was declared by Former Slave, Frederick Douglass to be "the greatest event of nation's history."...View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

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Lincoln at Peoria

The Turning Point

by Lewis E. Lehrman

Christopher Levenick - Writer for The Wall Street Journal

“Lincoln's return to politics, and the speeches it occasioned, is the subject of Lewis E. Lehrman's "Lincoln at Peoria." Intimately familiar with the primary sources and armed with a sweeping command of the historiography, Mr. Lehrman convincingly argues that Peoria marks the inflection-point in Lincoln's political development, when he discovered both the essence of the cause he embraced and the most persuasive way to convey it. At Peoria, Lincoln ceased to be an unremarkable Whig politician, concerned with the usual party platforms on internal improvements and protective tariffs. He gave evidence for the first time of his scrupulous study of the American founding. That fall day was, Mr. Lehrman suggests, the moment when Lincoln became Lincoln.”

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ANSWER KEY

Abraham Lincoln and California

1: War Democrat whom Mr. Lincoln knew from Illinois politics. He served as state attorney general in Illinois before moving to California, which he represented as a Senator in the Civil War.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

2: This longtime Lincoln friend helped lead California Republicans before seizing an opportunity to become a Senator from Oregon. His patronage recommendations were followed by President Lincoln – to the great annoyance of California Republicans.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

3: Union general who gained fame leading forces in California’s fight for independence from Mexico. He was known as the Pathmarker of the West.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

4: California attorney who rejoined the army after the Civil War broke. He first commanded armies in the West before being elevated to general-in-chief. In that post his refusal to make decisions or recommendations frustrated President Lincoln.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

5: Banker who served as Republican Congressman at the beginning of the war before being appointed by President Lincoln as Collector of the Port of San Francisco. He served briefly before being elected Governor of California.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

6: California journalist who had unusual entree to President Lincoln due to previous friendship in Illinois. This journalist’s close relations with both Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln helped put him in line to be President Lincoln’s personal secretary in his second term.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

7: California hunter whose presentation of an elk horn chair to the President on November 26, 1864 attracted wide publicity.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

8: Longtime Lincoln friend from New Salem who was rewarded with a federal appointment overseeing an Indian reservation in California.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

9: Lincoln’s longtime personal physician who cared for Mrs. Lincoln after her husband’s death. On his return to the West Coast, he was killed in a shipwreck off the coast of California.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

10: This House Speaker visited President Lincoln twice on the day Lincoln was shot. Mr. Lincoln gave him a message for the California miners whom the Congressman intended to visit.
A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J.

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