leader who rose level to the greatest crisis through which this nation or any other nation had to pass in the nineteenth century.

SAGAMORE HILL,

OYSTER BAY, N. Y.,

Theodore Roosevelt

September 22, 1905.

Abraham Lincoln. An Essay. Carl Schurz

Abraham Lincoln. Memorial Address. Joseph H.

Address to the People of Sangamon County, March 9th.

1833

To E. C. Blankenship, August 10th

To Mr. Spears

1836

Announcement of Political Views, June 13th

To Robert Allen, June 21st

To Miss Mary Owens, December 13th

1837

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77

135

161

162

163

164

Speech in Illinois Legislature, January [ ? ]

Address before the Young Men's Lyceum of Spring-

Protest in the Illinois Legislature on the Subject of

Slavery, March 3d (Stone and Lincoln) .

To Miss Mary Owens, May 7th

To John Bennett, August 5th

To Miss Mary Owens, August 16th

To the People, August 19th

166

Reply to Gen. Adams, October 28th (Lincoln and

Talbott)

To the Public, October 28th

1838

To Mrs. O. H. Browning, April 1st

1839

Remarks in the Illinois Legislature, January 17th

To Row, June 11th

Speech at a Political Discussion in the Hall of the

House of Representatives at Springfield, Illinois,

December [20th ?]

To John T. Stuart, December 23d

1840

Circular from Whig Committee, January [1st ?]

Resolution in the Illinois Legislature, November 28th

Resolution in the Illinois Legislature, December 2d

Remarks in the Illinois Legislature, December 4th

Remarks in the Illinois Legislature, December 4th

1841

To John T. Stuart, January 23d.

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196

228

229

235

Circular from Whig Committee, February 9th

236

Extract from a Protest in the Illinois Legislature

against the Reorganization of the Judiciary, Feb-

ruary 26th (Lincoln and others)

Call for Whig State Convention, October 20th (Whig

State Central Committee)

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Address before the Springfield Washingtonian Temper-

ance Society, February 22d

To Joshua F. Speed, Feburary 25th

To Joshua F. Speed, February 25th

To Joshua F. Speed, March 27th .

To Joshua F. Speed, July 4th

A Letter from the Lost Townships, August 27th

Invitation to Henry Clay, August 29th (Executive

Committee "Clay Club")

Correspondence about the Lincoln-Shields Duel, Septem-

ber 17th (Lincoln and Shields)

Memorandum of Instruction to E. H. Merryman, Lin-

coln's Second, September 19th

To Joshua F. Speed, October [4th ?]

261

278

281

283

291

293

1843

Resolutions at a Whig Meeting at Springfield, Illinois,

March Ist

Circular from Whig Committee, March 4th

To John Bennett, March 7th

To Joshua F. Speed, March 24th

To Martin M. Morris, March 26th

To Gen. J. J. Hardin, May 11th