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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 7 . (search)
Chapter 7.
Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
State Fair debate
Peoria debate
Trumbull elected
letter to Robinson
the know
Nothings
Decatur meeting
Bloomington convention
Philadelphia conventions
Lincoln's vote for Vice
President
Fremont and Dayton
Lincoln's campaign speeches
Chicago banquet speech
After the expiration of his term in Congress Mr.
Lincoln applied himself with unremitting assiduity to the practice of law, which the growth of the State in ecame impossible.
Early in 1856 Mr. Lincoln began to take an active part in organizing the Republican party.
He attended a small gathering of Anti-Nebraska editors in February, at Decatur, who issued a call for a mass convention which met at Bloomington in May, at which the Republican party of Illinois was formally constituted by an enthusiastic gathering of local leaders who had formerly been bitter antagonists, but who now joined their efforts to resist slavery extension.
They formulated a