Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 54
t importantof all the steadfast and courageous soul of theman called to direct the struggle. AbrahamLincoln, the poor frontier boy, the strugglingyoung lawyer, the Illinois politician, whom many,even among the Republicans who voted to electhim President, thought scarcely fit to hold amuch smaller… … THE FIRST SHOT FIRED IN THE CIVIL WAR. THE SHELL BURSTING OVER FORT SUMTER. the existing means .... which Congress hadprovided, I should let the Government fall atonce into ruin, or whether availing myself ofthe broader powers conferred by the Constitu-tion in cases of insurrection, I would make…
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