Show ABRAHAM ia LINCOLN kaw ra I 1 L lincoln s story of ims his T to T C axe life F P special interest at this moment to la the brief sketch of abraham Lincol ns lite which he be furnished for publication li when he was pitted against stephen A douglas for senator ol of illinois in runs runa as aa follows fol follow lowi 1 I was born february 12 1809 in hardin county ky my parents were both born in virginia of undistinguished families second families perhaps I 1 should say my mother who died in my tenth year was of a family of the name of hanks ome boma of whom now reside in adams and others othera in macon alacon county my paternal grandfather abraham lincoln emigrated from Rock higham county va to kentucky about 1781 or 1782 where a year or two later he was killed by indians not in battle but by stealth when ho he was laboring to a farm in the forest ills his a ancestors ce who were quakers went to virginia from berks berko county pa an to identify thom with the new england family of the same namo name ended in nothing more definite than a similarity of christian names in both families such as enoch levi leal mordecal mordecai Sotro abraham and the like sly my father at the death ot of his fath or er was but 6 years of ago age and he grow up literally without education ile he removed irom kentucky to what Is now spencer county ind in my eighth year wo we reached our new home about the time the abo state stat came into tho the union it was a wild region with many bears and other gamo game aal mals still in the woods there I 1 frew grew up there were some bome schools schoola so called but no qualification was ever required for a teacher beyond reading whitin and elpher tn to the tha rule of three it a straggler supposed to understand der stand latin happened to y sojourn in tho the neighborhood he was looked upon as a wizard TL chwe xo was waa absolutely nothing to excite ambition for of course when I 1 camo came of agra ago I 1 did not know much still somehow I 1 read write and cipher cieber to the rule of three but that was wart alt I 1 have not been to school since the little advance inow have bays upon this store of education I 1 bava picked up tip from time to time oran under tho pressure prea sura of necessity 1 I wils was raised to farm work which K continued ull I 1 was 22 at 21 1 I came to illinois and passed the first year in macon county then I 1 got to new salem at la in now menard county where I 1 remained a year as a sort or of clerk la in a store then than same the black hawk war and I 1 was elected a captain of volunteers a success which gave me niora more pleasure than any I 1 have had bad since I 1 went through the campaign was irso elected ran tor for the le the same game year and was beaten the only time I 1 haro hare ever been beat en an baho people the text next and three succeeding biennial elec tInas I 1 was waa elect elected led to t tho bo legisla legislature tuTe I 1 was waa not a cindI candidate date afterward during this legislative period I 1 had studied law and removed to springfield to tg arm practice it in 1846 1946 1 I was once elected to tho the lower house of congress was waa not a candidate for reelection election re from 1849 to 1854 both inclusive practiced law more assiduously than ever before always a whig in politics and generally on the whig electoral ticket making active canvasses I 1 was losing interest in politics when the repeal mal of the missouri compromise aroused TOO mo again what I 1 have done since then to Is pretty well known if ahny personal description of me Is thought desirable it may bo be said I 1 am in height six feet four inches nearly lean in flesh weighing bing on an average pounds dark complexion with coarse black hair and aad gray eyes no other marks marka or brands recollected 41 yours very truly A LINCOLN this was wt written itten a couple of yeara before he be ran the first time for president the rest as the phrase la Is Is history though douglas beat him for senator the popular vote of the state was with him as the cegla dative returns showed namely for i lincoln for douglas in his first campaign for the presidency lincoln received of the electoral votes and had a plurality of of tho the popular vote in a total of in his second campaign ho he received electoral votes out of leaving mcclellan only 21 and he had bad a clear majority of in the popular vote thus as in the tribute of london punch by tom taylor the dramatist when the assassins bullet had laid him low his bla course and conduct at the war had been vin dica dilated ted SO bo he grew up a destined work to do and lived to do it four longel suffer erive lyp years yeara ill III fate ill feeling ill III report lived through and then he h heard beard tho the biases change to cheers his work was done but he was cut off in his bla hour of triumph |