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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln
Then began his public life. Every ambitious young lawyer aspired to go to the legislature, and Lincoln served four terms in the lower house of Illinois. There is very little record of. His life in that period. He made rather faint and declining love to one or two girls, and finally carried off Mary Todd from under the addresses of Stephen A. Douglas, who was destined to be his great rival. Then in 1846 he was elected to Con gress on an agreement that he should serve only a single term. Somehow he could not strike the key of that Congress. He boasted that he had voted forty-two times for the principle of the Wil mot proviso against slavery; but his few recorded speeches are among the poorest of his writings; and from the end of his term in 1849 till his inauguration as president twelve years later he held no public office, and Douglas was able later to twit him with being a disappointed man.
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