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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: April 15, 1837, removed to Springfield and commenced the
practice, his old friend Stuart taking him into partnership."
Lincoln had already endeared himself to the people of Springfield
by championing a project they had much at heart--the removal of
the State capital from Vandalia to their own town. This was
accomplished, largely through his efforts, about the time he went
to Springfield to live. This change from New Salem, a village of
fifteen or twenty houses, to a "city" of two thousand
inhabitants, placed him once more in striking new relations as to
dress, manners, and society. Yet, as in the case of his removal
from his father's cabin to New Salem six years earlier, the
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