Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ble to do anything of the kind. Hewas so short at first that when he undertookto work off proofs, he had to stand on a fifty-six-pound weight in order to reachthe table. He quickly grew expert and ac-curate as a compositor, and was much likedand trusted by his master, of whose family henow became a member, as was the customwith apprentices in those days. In course oftime he became the foreman of the office,made up the pages of the Herald, andprepared the forms for the press. He wasnoted for his rapidity and accuracy as a com-positor, his clean proofs, and his taste in job-work, and he was also an excellent pressmanon the hand-presses of those days. Through-out his life it was a delight and, as he u.sedto express it, a positive recreation to himto manipulate the types; and the last time thathe ever handled the composing-stick was inthat same Herald offic e just sixty yearsfrom the day on which he had first enteretl itas an apprentice. 596 WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISOXS ORIGIN^ AND EARLY LIFE.
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GEORGE THOMPSON, WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, AND WENDELL PHILLIPS.(FROM A DAGUERREOTYPE (ABOUT 1851) IN THE POSSESSION OF MR. GARRISONS FAMILY.) Lloyd early evinced a taste for poetry, andwas fond of works of fiction and romance.His favorite poets at that time were Byron,Moore, Pope, Campbell, and Scott, and, overand above all these, Mrs. Hemans, whoseuTJtings he knew by heart; and when he sub-sequently published a paper of his own, therewas scarcely an issue which did not contain oneof her poems. It was natural that in such astronghold of the Federalists as Newburyportstill was (though the party had ceased tohave a national existence), with party feelingthroughout the .State running so high at eachannual election, he should also take an inter-est in politics and imbilK the prevailing senti-ment of his locality, and he became an ardentFederalist. He studied the writings of Juniusand Pisher Ames, and was a fervent admirerof Timothy Pickering and Harrison (irayOtis. While yet in his teens h

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