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...however, Lincoln had become the leader of the Sangamon County delegation of nine Whigs-"the Long Nine" whose aggregate height was exactly 54 feet. Everybody knew that Vandalia's days were numbered as the state capital; it was too far south. In 1837 a new capital would be chosen, and the Long Nine were out to put across Springfield, in Sangamon County, as the new site. An "internal improvements" bill, calling for the expenditure of $10 million or $12 million on railroads and waterways, gave them their chance to logroll. Lincoln became "an amiable, entertaining apostle of adequate transportation...
Meanwhile, a bill came up calling for the creation of a new county carved from Sangamon and Morgan Counties. This posed a dilemma for Lincoln: because of pressure from home, he would have to vote for the new county, but the new county would mean the end of Sangamon's staunch Long Nine-possibly the end of Springfield as a capital. His solution: a referendum that tossed the county-division bill back to the voters while the Long Nine logrolled the Springfield bill to a quick decision...
...others: Kennebec, Upper Mississippi, Suwannee River, Powder River, The James, The Hudson, The Sacramento, The Wabash, The Arkansas, The Delaware, The Illinois, The Raw, The Brandywine, The Charles, The Kentucky, The Sangamon, The Allegheny, The Wisconsin, Lower Mississippi, The St. Lawrence, The Chicago, Twin Rivers, The Humboldt, The St. John's, Rivers of the Eastern Shore...
Nevertheless the Navy sailed them, along with the converted oilers of the Sangamon class and the C-3s of the Bogue class. They swelled the baby flat-top fleet and they were probably as good as anything which could be provided, with the time and tools available...
...first time last fortnight. It went to Manhattan publishers Farrar & Rinehart for their Rivers of America Series, of which last year's seven volumes (The Chicago by Harry Hansen; The St. Lawrence by Henry Beston; The Lower Mississippi by Hodding Carter ; The Allegheny by Frederick Way Jr. ; The Sangamon by Edgar Lee Masters; The Kentucky by T. D. Clark; The Wisconsin by August Derleth) were found by Judges Carl Carmer, Amy Loveman, Franklin Hopper, Lewis Gannett, Nicholas Wreden to be "the best example of creative publishing in the year...