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JEFFERSON DAVIS AND END OF THE WAR
"Well, Josh," replied Mr. Lincoln, 'when I was a boy in Indiana, I went to a neighbor's house one morning and found a boy of my own size holding a coon by a string.
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"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.”

Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862

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Lincoln at Peoria

The Turning Point

by Lewis E. Lehrman

Excerpts on Lincoln at Peoria by Lewis E. Lehrman from essay in Fall 2009 Claremont Review of Books by Harry V. Jaffa, a Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute, who is the author of numerous articles and books, including his widely acclaimed study of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (University of Chicago Press, 1959).

"[W]e are indebted to Lewis Lehrman for focusing our attention on what the angels have always known...Now, Lehrman has given us in Lincoln at Peoria a full-length treatment of the 1854 speech that marked Lincoln's initial confrontation with the fateful question of slavery expansion...The subtitle of Lew Lehrman's book is The Turning Point. The Peoria speech was a turning point in Lincoln's life and career because it represented a turning point in the life of the nation...Lincoln at Peoria is a salutary, forceful reminder of the future president's powerful entry into the political struggle that led into the Civil War. The importance Lehrman finds in the Peoria speech cannot be exaggerated.... Lehrman not only elaborates, carefully and precisely, its political and philosophical doctrines, but he traces their presence through the other speeches, as well as into the presidency. It is a book on the whole of Lincoln…. As Lew Lehrman so convincingly shows, there is nothing virtually present at Gettysburg that is not actually present at Peoria…. It is part of Lehrman's achievement to make us aware of the extent of what Lincoln accomplished at Peoria...We are greatly indebted to Lewis Lehrman's superb book for helping us to understand why no list, however short, of the greatest speeches of all time could omit Lincoln at Peoria."

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Abraham Lincoln and African-Americans

1: In February 1865 he met with President Lincoln and was appointed as an Army major and charged with recruiting black troops.
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2: He was Mr. Lincoln’s barber in Springfield and corresponded with Mr. Lincoln about events in Springfield.
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3: He met with Mr. Lincoln in the summer of 1863 and 1864 and attempted to greet Mr. Lincoln at the White House after his Second Inaugural. When guards blocked his entry, President Lincoln ordered him admitted and personally greeted him.
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4: She formed an organization to aid “Contraband” or free blacks in Washington and recruited Mrs. Lincoln’s help for her efforts.
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5: He accompanied President-elect Lincoln from Springfield to Washington with expectations of working for him at the White House. Strong racial prejudice among the staff at the Executive Mansion made that impractical so Mr. Lincoln found him a job in the Treasury Department.
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6: Mr. Lincoln agreed to represent the owner of this slave, who claimed her right to freedom after the owner brought her to Illinois.
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7: This minister headed a delegation of black leaders who visited President Lincoln in August 1862. Mr. Lincoln pressed them to consider voluntary colonization of free blacks outside of the United States.
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8: Born Isabella Baumfree, she was an illiterate black abolitionist and women’s rights activist who met with the President at the White House and called him the only president who had done anything for her race.
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9: The wife of this White House messenger was given the dress Mrs. Lincoln wore on the night her husband was assassinated.
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10: This slave was denied his freedom in a famous case decided in 1857 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Lincoln strongly and repeatedly denounced the decision.
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