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The Origin of the Rivalry between Mr. Douglas and Mr. Lincoln
Mary Todd's girlhood ambition to marry a President, the suitors she played against each other, and the courtship stories behind the Lincoln-Douglas rivalry — with a coda on Keckley's own pension fight for her son.
Mary Todd's ambition and temperDouglas and Lincoln as rival suitorsThe broken engagementThe pension for Keckley's fallen son