| Show abraham lincoln was born february a ry letb 1809 near hodgenville Hodg enville larue county kentucky lie he was a sell self educated farm hand band entered for service in the clack black hawk war in 1832 read law and entered politics in 1836 ills his religious proclivities were with the presbyterians rians and he married marry todd in 1842 by whom nhom he had four sons in politics cs lincoln was a republican and was elected president 0 of the united states in 1860 after a sensational campaign in which he be was pitted against stephen L douglass at that time one of the brightest minds in the nation Lincol ns majority ol of the electoral votes was A little over one month alter after his inauguration the war broke out between the north and the south the first shot being fired april 1861 when the confederates fired upon fort sumter Su inter the war raged for nearly five years at the end of which lincoln was assassinated by john wilkes booth an actor in a box in fords theatre washington april 1863 in 1863 just after the great battle of gettysburg he be issued his famous emancipation proclamation setting the slaves free and making it impossible to continue that conT condition tion in the united states during the years of that terrible struggle abraham lincoln stood above all his countrymen in wisdom unequalled unequal led in courage unsurpassed and in fortitude incomparable yet withal the first to listen to overtures of peace and the first to extend the hand of fellowship and mercy to those of his countrymen who sought t to 0 disrupt the union such in brief is the history of abraham lincoln the greatest president save one which the united states has ever had next sunday we will honor the anniversary of his birth and the last legislature made that day a legal holiday coming as it does on sunday monday will be observed and it should be made a day of holiday with all business suspended and all care laid aside in in order that the name and life of the great emancipator might be more fully honored and corn commemorated vf |
