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I feel, however, that on this occasion this toast brings to our minds not the representative man, but plain Abraham Lincoln—our Moses whom God has called to lead us through the dreary wilderness of this rebellion. Few of the self-styled, well-born; few of the educated classes of 1800, would have designated him as theur first choice for the chief magistracy ; they rather acquiesced in his nomination in deference to a manifest popular desire. This
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Apr 15, 1865
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