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JEFFERSON DAVIS AND END OF THE WAR
"Well, Josh," replied Mr. Lincoln, 'when I was a boy in Indiana, I went to a neighbor's house one morning and found a boy of my own size holding a coon by a string.
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"In leaving the people's business in their own hands, we cannot be wrong."

Speech in Congress, July 27,1848

Abraham Lincoln and the Eighth Circuit
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Lincoln at Peoria

The Turning Point

by Lewis E. Lehrman

Students of Abraham Lincoln know the canon of his major speeches — from his Lyceum Speech of 1838 to his “Final Remarks” delivered from a White House window, days before he was murdered in 1865. Less well-known are the two speeches given at Springfield and Peoria two weeks apart in 1854. They marked Mr. Lincoln’s reentry into the politics of Illinois and, as he could not know, his preparation for the Presidency in 1861. These Lincoln addresses catapulted him into the debates over slavery which dominated Illinois and national politics for the rest of the decade.

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ANSWER KEY

Abraham Lincoln and Indiana

1: Indiana Congressman who became speaker of the House in 1863. He was one of the last persons to meet with President Lincoln. He subsequently became Vice President.
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2: Banker who served as Comptroller of the Currency before he was appointed as President Lincoln�s third Secretary of the Treasury.
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3: This Indiana governor lost his legislative majority to anti-war Democrats in the 1862 elections but continued to govern the state with the help of federal financial aid.
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4: Former congressman who was appointed as Mr. Lincoln�s first Secretary of the Interior. He resigned to become a federal judge.
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5: He served as assistant secretary of the interior at the beginning of the Lincoln Administration. When his boss became a judge, he succeeded him as President Lincoln�s second secretary of the Interior.
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6: He served as Governor of Indiana for only two days in January 1861 before being elected to the U.S. Senate.
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7: Radical Republican Congressman who was a critic of President Lincoln�s war and emancipation policies. He was a member of the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War.
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8: Indiana Democrat who was expelled from the U.S. because he called Jefferson Davis the �President of the Confederate States.�
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9: Copperhead Democratic Congressman who was associated with the Knights of the Golden Circle. His absence for the final House vote on the Thirteenth Amendment helped allow it to pass.
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10: Local man who married Mr. Lincoln�s sister, Sarah, married him in 1826. Less than two years later, she and their baby died in childbirth.
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