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Richard Lyman Bushman, “Joseph Smith and Abraham Lincoln” in Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration (Provo: Brigham Young University, Religious Studies Center, ), 89–
Richard Lyman Bushman was Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University when this was published.
In a letter to his friend John Stuart, dated March 1, , Abraham Lincoln wrote that Joseph Smith had recently passed through Springfield, Illinois. In a tantalizingly brief report, Lincoln told Stuart that “Speed [another close friend] says he wrote you what Jo. Smith said about you as he passed here. WE will procure the names of some of his people here and send them to you before long.”[1] The nature of Joseph’s comment on Stuart can only be surmised. Joseph had spent the winter in Washington D.C., vainly seeking compensation for the Saints’ losses in Missouri in He was returning to Nauvoo in the early spring when he passed through Springfield. John Stuart was Lincoln’s law partner and a member of Illinois’s congressional delegation. The Illinois delegation had gone out of their way to assist Joseph and his legal counselor Elias Higbee in making their case in Washington. Likely Joseph was grateful to Stuart and said so in Springfield.[2]
The letter is a reminder that Smith and L
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A Noble Dream: Abraham Lincoln and the Middle East
A Noble Dream: Abraham Lincoln and the Middle East
by Jason H. Silverman
The story of Abraham Lincoln’s self-education is a well-known one. A voracious reader from a very young age, Lincoln devoured whatever books he could get his hands on. Indeed, he once told his friend, Leonard Swett, that as a boy “he borrowed and read every book he could hear of for fifty miles.”
We know that Lincoln read the Bible, classics, histories, poetry, drama, and patriotic works. But, little has been written about one work in particular that had great influence upon Lincoln’s later life and diplomacy. Over eighty years ago, the eminent Lincoln scholar, R. Gerald McMurtry, wrote a short article about the influence that Captain James Riley’s Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce () had upon Abraham Lincoln. According to McMurtry, “the book is said to have a striking and permanent impression on the minds of early American youths who read it,” and Lincoln certainly fell into that category. Besides being an exciting adventure of capture, release, and cultural immersion, Riley’s story left “an indelible impression on Lincoln’s mind in regard to race superiority and the moral wrongs of slavery,” not to mention keen and critical o
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Abraham Lincoln settle down the Bible
William J. Wolf, The Almost Improper People: A Study intelligent the Belief of Patriarch Lincoln
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday &#; Co., )
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