The struggle in Kansas. - The South begins the struggle. - The North - - - men repudiate the Legislature. - Mr. Lincoln's "little speech" to - - - - - - - the Abolitionists of Illinois. - - Mr. Douglas opposes the Administration. His course in Congress. Squatter sovereignty in full operation. - Mr. Lincoln's definition of popular sovereignty and squatter sovereignty.—Mr. Douglas's private conferences with Republicans. —Judge Trumbull's opinion. - Mr. Douglas nominated for senator by a Democratic Convention. - Mr. Lincoln's idea of what Douglas might accomplish at Charleston. - Mr. Lincoln writing a celebrated speech. He is nominated for senator. -A startling doc- trine. A council of friends. Same doctrine advanced at Bloomington. The "house-divided" speech. - Mr. Lincoln promises to explain. - What Mr. Lincoln thought of Mr. Douglas.—What Mr. Douglas thought of Mr. Lincoln. - Popular canvass for senator. Mr. Lincoln deter- mines to "kill Douglas" as a Presidential aspirant. - Adroit plan to draw him out on squatter sovereignty. — Absurditics of Mr. Douglas. - The election. Success of Mr. Douglas.― Reputation acquired by Mr. Mr. Lincoln writes and delivers a lecture. "running qualities." He thinks himself unfit. - Nominated by "Illinois Gazette." - Letter to Dr. Canisius. - Letter to Dr. Wallace on the pro- tective tariff policy.—Mr. Lincoln in Ohio and Kansas. — A private meeting of his friends. - Permitted to use his name for the Presidency. — - - An invitation to speak in New York. — Choosing a subject. — Arrives in - - Meeting of the Republican State Convention. — Mr. Lincoln present.-John Hanks and the rails.— Mr. Lincoln's speech. — Meeting of the Republican National Convention at Chicago. - The platform. - Combinations to secure Mr. Lincoln's nomination. — The balloting. - Mr. Lincoln nomi- nated. Mr. Lincoln at Springfield waiting the results of the Con- vention. - How he received the news. - Enthusiasm at Springfield. - Official notification. - The "Constitutional Union" party. - The Demo- cratic Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore. The election. — The principle upon which Mr. Lincoln proposed to make appointments. Mr. Stephens. Mr. Gilmore. - Mr. Guthrie. - Mr. Seward. - Mr. Chase. - Mr. Bates. The cases of Smith and Cameron. Mr. Lincoln's visit to Chicago.-Mr. Lincoln's visit to his relatives in Coles County. - Appre- hensions about assassination. A visit from Hannah Armstrong. - . Difficulties and peculiarities of Mr. Lincoln's position. — A general review - - - Illustrated by his literary tastes. His temperate habits and abstinence from sensual pleasures. His am- bition. — Use of politics for personal advancement. and place. Of justice. - Not a demagogue or a trimmer. - His Departure of the Presidential party from Springfield. — Affecting address by - - - auguration. Inauguration Day.— Inaugural Address.—Mr. Lincoln's - Ꮧ ABRAHAM LINCOLN was born on the twelfth day of February, 1809. His father's name was Thomas Lincoln, and his mother's maiden name was Nancy Hanks. At the time of his birth, they are supposed to have been married about three years. Although there appears to have been but little sympathy or affection between Thomas and Abraham Lincoln, they were nevertheless connected by ties and associations which make the previous history of Thomas Lincoln and his family a necessary part of any reasonably full biography of the great man who immortalized the name by wearing it. Thomas Lincoln's ancestors were among the early settlers of Rockingham County in Virginia; but exactly whence they came, or the precise time of their settlement there, it is impossible to tell. They were manifestly of English descent; but whether emigrants directly from England to Virginia, or an offshoot of the historic Lincoln family in Massachusetts, or of the highly-respectable Lincoln family in Pennsylvania, are questions left entirely to conjecture. We have absolutely no evidence by which to determine them. Thomas Lincoln himself stoutly denied that his progenitors were either |