The Lincoln penny
A poem about Abraham Lincoln by John D. Nussbaum.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-02-12
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Twin dangers of nation are told
The Republican Club in Portland, Oregon, held a banquet in honor of Abraham Lincoln at the Commercial Club. At the club, various speeches were given. Dr. Andrew C. Smith warned about the lack of military protection on the West Coast and the danger of invasion from Japan. Judge William W. Cotton spoke in favor of President William H. Taft and criticized Theodore Roosevelt. He believes that current leaders are ignoring the tenets of the Constitution in a way that is just as bad as the South’s secession before the Civil War. Other speeches about Lincoln were also given.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-02-12
Lincoln’s memory honored
The writer of the article recounts the celebrations honoring Abraham Lincoln’s birthday in Watertown, New York. Members of the Lincoln League and various local dignitaries gave speeches honoring Lincoln’s life.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1894-02-13
Mr. Edison’s maimed mind
Parker H. Sercombe discusses the question of “maimed minds” as raised by Cardinal James Gibbons in his comments on Thomas A. Edison’s focus on mechanical pursuits and the resulting atrophy of religious sense. Sercombe argues that qualities of the mind, like those of the body, develop and diminish through use and disuse. Therefore, “normal minds” are the product of brains trained to exercise “in the realities of life” from childhood. Such minds become maimed when wide theological divergence, fairy stories, and fiction confuse the growing mind and interfere with normal thought, thereby disabling judgment. Sercombe, therefore, asks if normal minds can accept theological dogma since the theological mind is “invariably maimed.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-02-20
Mr. Edison’s maimed mind
Parker H. Sercombe discusses the question of “maimed minds” as raised by Cardinal James Gibbons in his comments on Thomas A. Edison’s focus on mechanical pursuits and the resulting atrophy of religious sense. Sercombe argues that qualities of the mind, like those of the body, develop and diminish through use and disuse. Therefore, “normal minds” are the product of brains trained to exercise “in the realities of life” from childhood. Such minds become maimed when wide theological divergence, fairy stories, and fiction confuse the growing mind and interfere with normal thought, thereby disabling judgment. Sercombe, therefore, asks if normal minds can accept theological dogma since the theological mind is “invariably maimed.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-02-21
Theodore Roosevelt, John Brown, and Abraham Lincoln
Celia Baldwin Whitehead critiques a recent speech by Theodore Roosevelt dedicating a park to the memory of John Brown. Roosevelt’s speech, while dedicating a park to Brown, does not mention him much, which Whitehead reflects on. She further compares Roosevelt’s handling of trusts and special interests to be similar to that of Abraham Lincoln handling the problem of slavery, and muses that, just as Lincoln ultimately came to the conclusion that the only way to control slavery was to kill it, whether Roosevelt will come to the conclusion that the only way to control trusts will be for the government to own them.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-02-24
Lincoln and the referendum
George Judson King is quoted as having given a speech in which he related a story about Abraham Lincoln speaking regarding the initiative and referendum, predicting that eventually every state in the union will have those rights, leading to true government by the people. King is additionally quoted as relating conversations he had with Swiss politician Ludwig Forrer regarding why Switzerland adopted direct legislation. William Allen White’s book, The old order changeth, speaks to many similar questions, and can be purchased from the Woodbury Book Co., of Danville, Illinois.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-02-24
Extracts from letters on the “Purity of the Ballot”
Extracts from numerous letters address the need to act against the ills of the day, including political corruption, partisanship, influence of money in elections, and the attack on democratic electoral principals.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-02-24
Child and animal protection
An edition of Child and Animal Protection with a handwritten note to “see page 6.” Circled is a brief article commenting that a certain ex-President (Theodore Roosevelt) who “went romping up and down the earth…slaying everything that ran or flew” and wrote “books to brag about it” has fallen in public esteem and continues to do so. The article contrasts this former president with Abraham Lincoln, who grows more beloved by the public.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-01
Indiana and Roosevelt
Indiana avoids the outliers both of extreme wealth and poverty, and therefore represents a community of average Americans, the vast majority of whom support and eagerly welcome Theodore Roosevelt. As the representative of the common person through his advocacy of a square deal for all, Roosevelt stands as “the greatest living exponent of the American ideal.” While not everyone may agree with Roosevelt’s specific policies to address the issues of the nation, everyone supports the cause for which Roosevelt works.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1910-10
Letter from James Sullivan Clarkson to Theodore Roosevelt
James Sullivan Clarkson encloses an article about the “negro question” by Carl Schurz, which he highly praises and is also sending to Booker T. Washington.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-12-23
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt
President Roosevelt expresses his support of the movement to make Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace into a national park in order to preserve the building in which he was born.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-01-26
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James C. Martin
Following William H. Taft’s election as president, President Roosevelt responds to James C. Martin’s letter stating that many voters would not support Taft because of his Unitarian religion and perceived sympathy with Catholics. Roosevelt takes the opportunity to broadly state that he believes that the faith of political candidates is a personal matter that voters should not take into account. He believes that voting for candidates based on their religion violates the principles of religious freedom that America is founded upon.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-11-06
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James C. Martin
Following the election of William H. Taft, President Roosevelt responds to the issue of whether a candidate’s religious affiliation should influence a political election. This copy of his letter to James C. Martin shows his edits, condensing the text to address the central question.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-11-06
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles J. Bonaparte
President Roosevelt congratulates Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte for his speech at Chicago, which showed his fair enforcement of the law. His attackers use the press and their wealth to recruit powerful people, like college presidents and corrupt judges, to their side at the cost of the “plain people.” These attackers know that developments like the Hepburn Rate Law, the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and protections for workers have been effective against moneyed interests and criminals, but they are often lawyers or editors who answer to the corporations. The individual men to whom he refers are, however, merely puppets, and the true issue should be taken with the offenders who stand behind them and control enormous wealth. He and Bonaparte are not responsible for the economic panic, but are striving for the right “in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-12-23
“The shades of Lincoln and M’Kinley are guiding the nation in the way it should go!”
The ghosts of Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley put their hands on President Roosevelt’s shoulders as he uses the “Republican record” and “prosperity” reins. Caption: “The shades of Lincoln and M’Kinley are guiding the nation in the way it should go!” Tenor of President Roosevelt’s Speech of Acceptance.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-07-27
Led by Lincoln’s principles
President Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln walk hand-in-hand, as Lincoln points forward.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-08-04
Labor’s emancipation, North and South
On the left side of the cartoon, President Abraham Lincoln takes off the shackles of an African American man and holds the “Declaration of Independence.” On the right side, President Roosevelt gestures to the “U.S. Govt Printing” office to a man who is kneeling at his feet. Roosevelt holds a portion of one of his letters that reads, “In the employment and dismissal of men in the government service I can no more recognize the fact that a man does or does not belong to a union as being for or against him than I can recognize the fact he is a Protestant or Catholic, a Jew or a Gentile, as being for or against him.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-11
Approved
Standing in the “White House,” the “Lone Star State” shows President Roosevelt a paper that reads, “Resolved by the Daughters of the Confederacy of Texas—that we approve of the action of the president relative to Panama as a recognition by him of the divine right of secession.” There is a bust of Abraham Lincoln in the background.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-12
He laughs best who laughs last
New York Senator Chauncey M. Depew points at New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt and laughs. President Roosevelt and New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell sit on a couch in the background and also laugh. There is a picture of Abraham Lincoln on the wall. Caption: “A conference was held last week at the White House, when it was arranged that Benjamin Odell should assume control and re-organize the Republican fences in New York State. Senator Platt is said to resent this, and will be assisted in his fight for Supremacy by Senator Depew.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-12-05