Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2003
Department 1
Civil War Era Studies
Department 2
History
Abstract
That man who thinks Lincoln calmly sat down and gathered his robes about him, waiting for the people to call him, has a very erroneous knowledge of Lincoln," wrote Abraham Lincoln's long-time law partner, William Henry Herndon. "He was always calculating, and always planning ahead. His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest." And in no other pursuit was Lincoln more ambitious than in politics. As a lawyer and Whig political organizer in Illinois, "Politics were his life and his ambition and his motive power." [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Guelzo, Allen C. "Lincoln on the Abolition of Slavery," The New-York Journal of American History 65.2 (Fall 2003) 33-37.
Required Publisher's Statement
Original version is available from the publisher at: http://www.nyhistory.com/images/NYHS/nyjah.htm
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