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Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 19 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 43283 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 71 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 United 11 States 10 Union 9 Congress 8 President 8 Constitution 6 Judge 6 Douglas 5 LINCOLN 5 General 4 Secretary 4 Mr. 4 Lincoln 4 Illinois 4 Government 3 WASHINGTON 3 Scott 3 SPRINGFIELD 3 Missouri 3 MANSION 2 Washington 2 Territories 2 Taylor 2 TELEGRAM 2 Nebraska 2 MAJOR 2 Kansas 2 God 2 GENERAL 2 Federal 2 EXECUTIVE 2 Dred 2 Court 1 man 1 illustration 1 hon 1 dear 1 american 1 Whig 1 War 1 WAR 1 Trumbull 1 Treasury 1 Texas 1 Talbott 1 State 1 Springfield 1 South 1 Sangamon 1 SIXTH Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2305 man 1577 people 1471 slavery 1408 time 1097 slave 993 question 983 day 946 law 925 government 889 country 883 state 842 year 799 right 770 case 765 part 714 thing 668 way 658 war 644 power 610 friend 550 speech 541 subject 539 principle 536 fact 534 nation 530 party 529 force 503 letter 500 one 500 a. 498 nothing 474 point 473 person 466 purpose 466 order 466 opinion 455 decision 449 place 429 hand 419 service 415 act 407 matter 396 view 395 word 395 election 384 anything 380 citizen 375 enemy 363 policy 362 reason Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 2000 States 1485 _ 1402 LINCOLN 1270 United 1137 General 1065 Judge 1006 Douglas 971 GENERAL 925 Union 898 State 896 WASHINGTON 856 Constitution 852 Congress 741 Mr. 739 President 704 Lincoln 571 TELEGRAM 469 MANSION 463 EXECUTIVE 387 Government 383 Secretary 370 MAJOR 359 New 358 Missouri 344 Illinois 335 Washington 313 C. 276 Territories 267 H. 266 WAR 264 D. 249 War 245 July 240 South 239 Nebraska 238 God 224 May 218 DEPARTMENT 215 Court 211 June 208 J. 207 Kansas 203 Virginia 203 Scott 196 January 195 Federal 194 Senate 193 W. 193 North 192 March Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 11349 i 10724 it 5604 you 5127 he 3433 we 3051 they 2033 me 1926 them 1801 him 1281 us 374 himself 347 myself 327 themselves 310 yours 281 itself 211 she 180 her 126 ourselves 119 yourself 54 mine 35 one 30 ours 23 yourselves 21 his 19 herself 16 theirs 7 ''em 3 ye 2 hers 1 whereof 1 thee 1 sir:--this 1 my 1 louisiana;--they 1 hon 1 down,"--you 1 ay 1 ''s Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 28329 be 9962 have 4701 do 2816 say 2330 make 1212 know 1209 think 1137 give 1087 take 869 come 856 go 812 see 718 let 700 get 692 believe 643 find 625 receive 583 hold 559 show 532 leave 513 call 497 ask 483 understand 447 suppose 445 tell 442 bring 441 pass 411 send 396 declare 392 speak 383 wish 381 put 373 follow 366 write 356 seem 356 become 348 vote 346 consider 344 exist 341 keep 337 stand 324 mean 303 expect 299 hear 297 read 289 want 287 decide 281 place 280 adopt 269 require Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 7400 not 2220 so 2077 now 1502 other 1344 more 1247 such 1095 great 1032 well 1031 very 1018 as 999 then 991 only 833 a. 821 same 797 good 760 much 755 here 732 own 686 never 681 free 677 up 653 ever 648 first 633 public 580 last 575 most 575 just 558 new 553 out 546 far 509 even 507 also 462 still 461 long 457 again 453 true 447 many 427 yet 419 whole 410 little 402 old 397 military 390 present 374 all 373 there 363 political 361 right 359 general 353 national 340 too Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 253 good 224 least 104 most 63 great 47 high 24 late 21 early 16 near 15 large 14 slight 13 strong 12 bad 11 wise 10 short 10 noble 10 low 10 heavy 10 Most 7 manif 7 fair 7 deep 6 small 5 rich 5 lofty 5 happy 5 fond 5 fine 5 cheap 4 mighty 4 l 4 hard 4 full 4 apt 4 able 3 warm 3 sure 3 quick 3 pure 3 poor 3 long 3 grave 3 chief 2 true 2 swift 2 strange 2 speedy 2 severe 2 safe 2 proud 2 old Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 471 most 38 well 38 least 2 worst Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www.gutenberg.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/etext02/lcent11.txt Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 slavery is wrong 23 slavery is right 16 constitution does not 10 slave is distinctly 10 slavery is not 8 question is not 7 country believes slavery 6 congress did not 6 day is not 6 men are equal 5 case be content 5 slavery did not 5 time has not 4 case is new 4 case is susceptible 4 constitution has ever 4 day is just 4 douglas did not 4 douglas does not 4 douglas is not 4 judge does not 4 man be not 4 men do not 4 people have wisely 4 slave is not 4 slavery is first 4 slavery is morally 4 slaves do not 4 states be lawfully 4 states be not 4 states have ever 4 states is perpetual 4 union be faithfully 4 union is less 4 union is much 4 union is perpetual 4 union is unbroken 3 _ were _ 3 country is everything 3 country is extensive 3 douglas has here 3 government does not 3 government is acquiescence 3 judge did not 3 judge has not 3 judge is not 3 laws be continually 3 laws were wiser 3 man does not 3 man has authority Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 constitution does not expressly 6 slavery is not wrong 4 time has not yet 3 day is not altogether 3 douglas is not willing 3 men have no power 3 slavery did not now 3 slaves have no means 3 state has no right 2 country leaves no doubt 2 day had no reference 2 government has no choice 2 government has no information 2 people have no right 2 people were not fairly 2 slavery has not always 2 union were not free 1 _ let no opportunity 1 case had not then 1 case is not particular 1 congress had no power 1 constitution have no application 1 day is not now 1 day is not too 1 douglas has no fault 1 douglas is not only 1 douglas made no answer 1 douglas was not present 1 government does not sufficiently 1 government had no lawful 1 government has no official 1 government has no right 1 judge has no very 1 judge has not yet 1 judge is not only 1 law does not clearly 1 law gives no answer 1 law is not much 1 law is not only 1 man was not dead 1 men have no candidate 1 people are not indifferent 1 people have no interest 1 people have not yet 1 president has no authority 1 president has no objection 1 president is not willing 1 question had no place 1 right are not morally 1 slave is no longer Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 119260 2657 100226 2658 91014 14721 89026 2654 80015 2653 79102 2659 45871 2655 44129 14274 38145 2656 27713 5024 7658 22681 6216 39204 3705 9 1208 7547 1125 8110 770 8 629 22082 4 3626 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 91.0 39204 84.0 8110 81.0 7547 75.0 8 74.0 2654 73.0 14721 72.0 22681 72.0 2655 72.0 2658 71.0 2656 70.0 2657 69.0 14274 69.0 2653 68.0 2659 62.0 9 58.0 5024 53.0 22082 4 3626 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 14274 The facts of Lincoln''s early life are best stated in his own words, shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new,--North slave for a long time in each, was passing through the United States Constitution which declares that "the citizens of each State shall be Territorial Legislature to exclude slavery from any United States power in the people of a State to exclude slavery from their limits, restrained by the United States Constitution is left an open question, of a new State into the Union with such a constitution as the people of the Union with such a constitution as the people of that State may see the Constitution of the United States, the people of the Southern Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, very far to make slavery national throughout the United States. 14721 Slave Law, and even menace the institution of slavery in the States right to take and hold slaves in the free States, demand the revival of Union as a slave State, I shall oppose it. slavery in Illinois; and, to-day, a large party in the free State of Compromise which secured to slavery a great State as well as a political into the Union as a slave State, and that slavery was weeded out by the shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North to-day--that the people of a Territory have no right to exclude slavery people to make a State constitution,--all that portion of time popular only to the Constitution of the United States." Thereupon Judge Douglas slavery is to be made national, let us consider what Judge Douglas is the rights of all the States and Territories and people of the nation; 22082 was issued by the President of the United States, containing, slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall government of the United States, including the military and naval by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States." rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit: order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will 22681 heard Lincoln''s address on the death of President Zachary Taylor. President Taylor died at Washington on July 9, 1850. Lincoln arrived in Chicago two days before the President''s death. Taylor, deceased, late President of the United States of the address on the life and public services of Gen. Taylor, is When General Taylor died, it was eminently fitting that Lincoln, as the arrival in Chicago, two days before the death of President Taylor, Lincoln would have done for Worth what Taylor did. the deceased President, General Zachary Taylor. General Zachary Taylor, the eleventh elected President of the United This was General Taylor''s great It did not happen to General Taylor, once in his life, to fight a battle General Taylor''s battles were not distinguished for brilliant military that battle, even General Taylor, himself. that battle, even General Taylor, himself. certain--that General Taylor had never thought of the Presidency in 2653 any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall the two foremost figures in its history men like Washington and Lincoln. It is good for every man in any way concerned in public life to feel Lincoln the man, patient, wise, set in a high resolve, is worth far more slavery question to the people of the free States, and thrust itself figure; and Douglas was a Senator from Illinois, Lincoln''s State. peculiar power as a public man, and singularly fitted him, as we shall Constitution of the United States." This he called "the great principle his friends in Illinois took the matter seriously in hand, and Lincoln, what had now become the powerful State of Illinois, and upon the people been elected by the slave power, and who thought the seceding States The object of the meeting was stated by Mr. Lincoln of Springfield, who 2654 States; and it shall be the duty of the President to canvass said votes constitutes the Territories of New Mexico and Utah and the present State was a slave State, and consequently the farther west the slavery men could fact that by that very law Missouri came in as a slave State, north of the Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new Territories, is not constitutional right to take and to hold slaves in the free States, demand General Government, five or six of the original slave States had adopted question of whether a new country shall be slave or free is a matter of as Kansas shall be free, you would vote for no man for Congress who would say to put the free-State men in the wrong for not voting at the election of and he knows that the free-State men place their refusal to vote on the 2655 slavery from any United States Territory, they all omit to declare whether mooted question of slavery, before they form a State constitution? Judge Douglas made two points upon my recent speech at Springfield. hearing, and to which I ask the attention of all, Judge Douglas thinks he How is it, then, that Judge Douglas infers, because I hope to see slavery the right of the people, when they come to make a State Constitution, Judge Douglas is for Supreme Court decisions when he likes and against One more point on this Springfield speech which Judge Douglas says he has old Whig party, I have the means of knowing about that: Judge Douglas fairly with Judge Douglas, and with the people of the State, in this To this Judge Douglas answered that they can lawfully exclude slavery from Suppose you believe, as Judge Douglas does, that the Constitution 2656 days, and when I heard of what Judge Trumbull had said of Douglas, and I propose to examine the points in Judge Douglas''s speech in which he Judge Douglas states, that many Territorial bills have passed without show of proof that Judge Douglas did, as Trumbull says, enter into a plot want to ask this question: Why did not Judge Douglas say that these words Another one of the points that Judge Douglas makes upon Trumbull, and at In the clause of Judge Douglas''s speech upon this subject he uses this Judge Trumbull says Douglas made that speech, and it is recorded. speech that Judge Douglas made he attacked me in regard to a matter does not, and I have the right to repeat the question,--Why Judge Douglas Now, in regard to what Judge Douglas said (in the beginning of his speech) Judge Douglas declares that if any community wants slavery they have a 2657 principle would be, that a general government shall do all those things wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits, a right to carry his slaves into the United States Territories. At the time the Constitution of the United States was adopted, it was becomes alike lawful in all the States, old or new, free as well as slave. Constitution of the United States expected that slavery should be into the Union as a slave State, and that the people, upon the "great rights of all the States and Territories and people of the nation, to the the union of these States and the liberties of this people shall be lost, States, authorizing him at the same time, if he shall find it necessary, laws, Constitution, and government of the United States which had broken Major-General Fremont, of the United States Army, the present commander 2658 of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks The enemy is moving north in sufficient force to drive General Banks been received and sent to General McDowell, and he directed to act in view WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON CITY, May 30, 1862.9.30 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL McDOWELL, Rectortown, Va.: Department, heretofore under command of General Fremont, shall constitute whole land forces of the United States, as general-in-chief, and that he order made, General Halleck went to the Secretary of War with it, stating Ordered, by the President of the United States, That the Attorney-General that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States and dismissed from the service of the United States as a major-general and I think I so stated to the Secretary of War and General Halleck. 2659 State in this Union a republican form of government and shall protect each military order from the General-in-Chief or Secretary of War. A. constituting you Lieutenant-General of the Army of the United States. lieutenant-General in the United States Army, approved February 29, 1864, military service (Army, Navy, and Marine Corps) of the United States. the United States and to the rebels now at war against the Government and people of the United States as a day of national humiliation and prayer. Lieutenant-General, Commanding Armies United States." Secretary of State, when the following telegram of General Grant to the OFFICE UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, WAR DEPARTMENT. OFFICE UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, WAR DEPARTMENT. OFFICE UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, WAR DEPARTMENT. OFFICE UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, WAR DEPARTMENT. OFFICE UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, WAR DEPARTMENT. continue until war vessels of the United States shall have been placed 3626 39204 struggling laboring man, I am for that thing. _Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed._ It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong. The doctrine of self-government is right--absolutely and eternally When the time comes, I shall take the ground I think is right. If I do not go away from here a wiser man, I shall go away a better Let the people know the truth, and the country is safe. I shall stay right here and do my duty. There is no such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the these great self-evident truths, that when in the future some man, No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom; and that the 4 5024 if it be one, will increase as new States come into the Union. that Congress provide for accepting such persons from such States, the free colored people already in the United States could not, so far considerable migration to both these countries from the United States. correspondence through the Department of State with foreign governments State of Minnesota has suffered great injury from this Indian war. 1900, shall receive compensation from the United States as follows, to the rights of foreigners in this country and of United States citizens United States they still claim the interposition of this Government as existing treaty between the United States and a foreign country, the The naval force of the United States consists at this time of 588 spirit on the part of the United States, as well as of the nations the United States no banks of issue not authorized by Congress and no 7547 QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Forbids the marrying of white people with negroes Free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia Fugitive Slave law Get along without making either slaves or Government cannot endure permanently half slave I like the system which lets a man quit Middle ground between the right and the wrong?? Not appearing on the appointed wedding day Public opinion in this country is everything Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law Right to eat the bread he earns Seward''s Bid for Power Suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong Two Sons Who Want to Work Who has the right needs not to fear Would Make War Rather than Let the Nation Survive Would Accept War Rather than Let it Perish You work and toil and earn bread, and I''ll eat it You were right and I was wrong Complete Letters and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: 8 Lincoln''s Second Inaugural Address On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather And the war came. that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on 8110 LINCOLN LETTERS The letters herein by Lincoln are so thoroughly characteristic of admonitions in the letter to his brother, Johnston, were written on the same sheet with the letter to his father. King, requesting a pardon for John B. Your request for eighty dollars, I do not think it best to comply live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it to work for the best money wages, or in discharge of any debt you land, and if you don''t pay the money back, you will deliver advice, you will find it worth more than eight times eighty dollars to vigilant and self reliant; and, pleased with this, I wish not to [Illustration: 06 REQUEST FOR A PARDON] [Illustration: 06 REQUEST FOR A PARDON] [Transcriber''s Note: The letter from Austin A. Lincoln''s note approving the pardon is contained in As these letters were not transcribed in the 9 be enforced by national or by State authority; but surely that if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association be lawfully possible, the Union is LESS perfect than before the Constitution, I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. legal right may exist in the government to enforce the exercise of All profess to be content in the Union if all Constitutional rights majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written Constitutional right, of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, The fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the implied Constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express