Show PUBLIC SCHOOLS t ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1 abraham lincoln was born feb 12 1809 in a log cabin in the backwoods of kentucky the cibin having but one room one window and one door w i when ale was five years old spent to a small school nearby he went to school for about one year when he was seven his parents moved to indiana abe had to work hard helping his father clear and fence the land he read and studied at night after his work was done by the light of the fire when lincoln yas a young roin he made many trips down the mississippi river on one of these trips he saw slaves sold off at abc f tion like cattle he said to his companions boys lets get away from this if I 1 ever get a chance to hit that thing ill hit it hard line ln stured and practical liay in illinois where he bacare bacame a famous lawyer he would refuse to lake any part that he believed to be wrong in 1860 he became candidate for the presidency on the republican in ticket douglas at the same time was candidate on the democratic ticket before lincoln became the southern states wera trying to break ariy from the union and et up a government of their own i jn a speech lincoln once made he paid A houe divided against itself cannot stand I 1 believe that this nation cannot endure half slave and half free it will become all one thing or the other when lincoln became president he tried to get the south to give up slavery but they would not saying thit if they did they go to ruin with no slaves to do their work when the civil war broke out lincoln at first was not fighting to free the but to keep the union together before the war ended A he was fighting also to free the slaves when the war ended and the C north had won the south were very bitter towards lincoln after a while they began to see that he was their friend like washington lin coin was such a good president that he was elected a second time one day while he was out riding he said to his wife mary when thee four years are over I 1 am going back to illinois and be a country lawyer again that night in the theatre he was shot by a half crazed actor and with malice for none and chanty for all he breathed his last women and children whose fathers brothers and husbands had been killed in the war wept afresh at this new added grief ruth walker ath grade woodward school |