ABRAHAM LINCOLNS VOCATIONS

Views on Labor, Excerpts From Newspapers and Other SourcesN early half a century ago, a young man just entering on my professional career, I came to Cooper Institute to hear the Western orator whose debate with Doug las had given him a National reputation. Some of his fiiends had broached to him the subject of a nomination to the Presi dency. What, he replied, is the use of talking of me when we have such men as Seward and Chase, and everybody knows them, and scarcely anybody outside of Illinois knows me? Besides, as a matter of justice, -is it not due to them?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.