...upon three pages of note-paper, he sketched the period at which we have arrived in these words : " From 1849 to 1854, both inclusive, I practiced law...good practice in Chicago; but he declined it on the * Among others John T. Stuart, who is our authority for this statement. be serviceable. Devoting himself...

...Whig in politics, and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses; I was losir.g interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. " If any personal description of me is thought desirable,...

...before. Always a Whig in politics, and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making activo canvasses, I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known." The early residence of Lincoln in Indiana was Iß...

...before. Always a Whig in politics; and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses. I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. If any personal description of me is thought desirable...

...before. Always a Whig in politics, and generally on the Whig electoral ticket, making active canvasses. I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. If any personal description of me is thought desirable,...

...1847-8, and then gave way to another aspirant of his party ; practiced law, and, in his own words, " was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri compromise roused him again." As a young man, in the rough backwoods country, he was known as the most powerful...

...more assiduously than ever before. In respect to that period of his life he once wrote to a friend : " I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again." There was a great upturning in the political situation in Illinois, brought about by the repeal of...

...bill." * Life of Lincoln, Herndon, p. 361 ; Life of Lincoln, Arnold, p. 115. He wrote to a friend : " I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me ngain." — EB Washburne on Lincoln, Reminiscences of A. Lincoln, North American Publishing Company....

...before. Always a Whig In politics, and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses. I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. If any personal description of me Is thought desirable. It may be said that I am In height six feet...

...before. Always a Whig in politics; and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses. I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. If any personal description of me is thought desirable,...