Douglas, Lincoln and the Nebraska Bill (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Douglas, Lincoln and the Nebraska Bill Lincoln was a truly American type, but Douglas was more truly a typical American. Lincoln was strongly idealistic, and his moods were introspective, poetical and religious. His superlative gift of sympathy made him one with the multitude, and the allied gift of melancholy ripened sympathetic public regard into adoration, as like gifts won worship for his prototype who also was "a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief." It seems to be generally conceded that, in his earlier life at least, the poem, "O, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud," was a great favorite of Lincoln´s. This partiality for a composition not above high class doggerel probably gave way to the influence of his latent taste, awakened and developed in the terribly impressive school of experience in which his later years were spent. But the fact that this favorite is a wail of gloomy fatalism, "Without one cheering beam of hope, Or spark of glimmering day," illustrates Lincoln´s tendency to melancholy. In an environment lacking the American stimulus, Lincoln might have been a mere dreamer of dreams. But the American frontier spirit, abhorring anything so non-practical as a mere philosopher, fashioned out of his strong but alien qualities a subtle politician plus a virile strain of statesmanship. Douglas and Lincoln were opposites in all important respects save one; politics was their profession and absorbing occupation, and they were rivals in its widest field and for its highest honors. Douglas demonstrated his great capacity for leadership of the dominant national party, and for practical statesmanship as a member of the national congress for twenty years. In fact the sum total of his practical accomplishment up to his untimely death in 1861, was far greater than that of Lincoln. At the outset of his career each was a popular prodigy, but in a different way - Douglas through the inspiration of dominating force, Lincoln through the gift of brawn and good-fellowship. At the Ottawa debate Douglas said of his rival: "He was then (in the days of their early struggles and poverty) just as good at telling an anecdote as now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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