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Lincoln, the Politician

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By T. Aaron Levy
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The author chronicles the subject's evolution from local party operative to national statesman, emphasizing how frontier upbringing, grassroots campaigning, caucus and convention experience, and legislative service forged practical political skill. The narrative highlights training in debate and organization, the widening of democratic aims into policy, and the use of party machinery toward public welfare. It argues that moral vision paired with political method enabled effective leadership during crisis, and it concentrates on the neglected early political career through documentary passages and analysis to show how preparation, compromise, and common-sense statesmanship shaped later national responsibilities.

Transcriber's Notes:

Spelling has been made consistent throughout where the author's preference could be ascertained.

Hyphenation is inconsistent as in Post-office and Postoffice.

Punctuation and tyographical errors corrected without comment except the following:

Page 46 ("Jack" always treated his victim when he thought he had been too hard upon him.) Removed quotes around "Jack" and added quotes to "treated".

Page 96 (Thus a newspaper of the day says: He is going it with a perfect rush. "Thus far the Locofocos have not been able to start a man that can hold a candle to him in political debate. All of their crack nags that have entered the list against him have come off the field crippled or broke down.) Moved open quotation marks to "He is going it...

The following corrections made are indicated by dotted lines under the corrections. Scroll the mouse over the word and the original text will appear.

Page 74 (It is he who by these unholy means, is endeavoring to blow up a storm that he made ride upon and direct.) Replaced "made" with "may".

Page 183 (I am not aware than any one is bidding you yield that right ...) Changed "than" to "that".

Page 192 (When the first flood of enthusiasm, after the Bloomington Convention, subsided, a mysterious apathy, a stifling indifference, met the new movement, a no unusual phenomenon in politics or human affairs.) Replaced "no" with "not".