TY - BOOK AU - Fraker,Guy C. ED - Project Muse. TI - Lincoln's ladder to the presidency: the eighth judicial circuit SN - 9780809332021 AV - KF368.L52 F73 2012 U1 - 340.092 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Carbondale PB - Southern Illinois University Press KW - Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 KW - Illinois KW - Circuit Court (8th Circuit) KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Law KW - Downstate Illinois KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; A new country -- As happy as he could be -- Purely and entirely a case lawyer -- Sangamon, Tazewell, Woodford -- Mclean, Livingston, Logan, Dewitt -- Piatt, Champagne, Vermilion -- Edgar, Shelby, Moultrie, Macon, Christian, Menard, Mason -- The 1840s and the early 1850s -- The awakenment -- The repeal ... aroused me again -- The tall sucker and the little giant -- A little sketch -- No stone unturned -- We saw him no more UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780809332021/ ER -