Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: America Lingk'un, A. D., 1809-1865 His service in the Legislature was such as to make him a recognized leader of the whig party, and a proficient lawyer. He was instrumental in having the state capital removed from Vandalia to Springfield, where he settled, 1837. In the Legisla ture, too, he had his first encounter with Stephen A. Douglas, whose political and oratorical Opponent he continued to be from this time until 1860, when Douglas was finally defeated and Lincoln elected to the Presidency. In 1840 Lincoln entered with fervor into the campaign for Harrison, being an elector on the Harrison ticket; and the same year also met and engaged himself to marry Mary, daugh ter of the Hon. Robert S. Todd, who had just come from Lexington, Ky. For some reason connected with this engagement, Lincoln fell into a deep mel ancholy and was in danger of becoming insane. He recovered, however, and married Miss Todd, 1842, November 4. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
