| Show The Low Down i From Hickory Grove Every day more and more folks are coming up with an idea for a anew aI anew new law I am not trying to say I there is no good reason for such but 1 dont don't know w where hen hent e we an are angon gun gon gonna guna na put pot em cm From attic to basement we arc are crowded now with wit h laws Our OUI first Job joh is to find space and room for any a 11 new ones olles We Ve must clean out the present misfits that thai we c c been acquiring fill lor i the past doyen years als Too munch much law versus I too loo little hU Ic is us till the t lung that has boon blot upsetting out our tranquilly tranquility progress mid and confidence If there then uis ivas an all instrument of f sonic some kind that thai would measure confidence a reading leading from flom same would show t we been heen passing through an all all low era era or or next door dool to some same Yours with the low down JO HISTORY II Y OF OK LIN LAN LINCOLN COLN COLN February February 12 Abraham IAn Lin Lincola cola coIn was lS born y 12 IROn 1809 in a log cabin in ill county cent mucky I II the he son of Thomas Lin oln and Nancy Hanks When hen Abra Ahrn Abraham Abraham ham was twenty one years old DIll I t ho the moved mowd to Illinois where brnham worked as a n farm laborer t U the age a of twenty three he lie was chosen captain of a company compan of vol volunteers volunteers for Cor service in the tilt Black BlackHawk Hawk Indian Ind war Upon his return from the thc campaign he hl located at It New Salem and became partner in ina inn a n general store in the village He lie also held the position of village postmaster and deputy surveyor At the age of twenty-five twenty he lie was elected to the state legislature At Athe Atthe Atthe the he age of 30 he moved to Spring Spring- Springfield field the capital and uHl opened a law office At the age of 37 he was elected a I representative to con can gress In 1840 at the age gc of or 31 he be named presidential elector and in 1844 and 1856 he was again chosen as os a Elector In 1858 he was nominated nomina a for the United States senate bythe by the Republicans He was nominated for lor the presidency presidency dency in Chicago in 1860 and was heeled taking office March 4 1801 1861 A month later the Civil war broke out and he lie was called upon to direct it In 1863 he issued a II proclamation declaring his Intention lion tion of freeing all the slaves in slave states on January 1 1864 He Ill vas elected re-elected to the presidency in November 1864 and on April 14 1865 was shot hot in Fords Ford's theater m n Washington by John Wilkes booth an actor He died the fol fol- mg lo evening r lets His I birthday is I u 1 I legal holiday in most of the lilt states stalls ta l' More Ion has been written writ tell about Lin Lm cult coin than perhaps any oilier Amei Antel ican lall U |
