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Show THE BULLETIN Butterflies of Filet Heavy Stuff The neutron, the infinitesimal particle of matter being used to bombard the nucleus of the atom n the hope of releasing its energy, is so heavy that a thimbleful of them would weigh about a million tons. Collier's Weekly. Crochet Featured By ELMO SCOTT WATSON THIS is the story of three named Jesse W. Fell, Davis and Leonard David Swett. Perhaps you never heard of those men before. But if it hadnt been for them you might never have heard of Abraham Lincoln, either. That is why you are hearing of them, here and now. Several years ago Dr. William E. Barton, famous as an author- - ginning of a friendship which endured for 30 years and which was destined to be more important to that young legislator than either man then realized. In 1836 Fell became interested in real estate and turned his law office over to a young lawyer named David Davis. Davis was bom at The Rounds," Sassafras Neck, in Cecil county, Maryland, on March 9, 1815. Graduated from Kenyon college in Ohio at the age of seventeen, he studied law for two years in an office in Lenox, Mass., and then attended law school in New Haven, Conn., fop a year. In 1835 he moved to Pekin, 111., and was admitted to the Illinois bar the following year. Evidently the young Marylander wasnt any too successful in Pekin for he was about to return to his native state when Jesse Fell suggested that he move to Bloomington and take over Fell's law practice which he was giving up for the real estate business. Davis accepted the offer, which also included financial aid. About this time he first became acquainted with Lincoln. But their closest association came some twelve years later when Davis, as a judge, and Lincoln, as a lawyer, were making the rounds of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Illinois. JESSF. W. FELL lty on Lincoln, in an address before the Illinois State historical society declared: Oregon could have made Lincoln a senator, but it is not certain that any other state than Illinois could have made him President. He needed essentially the conditions which he found in Illinois to develop the qualir ties which were inherent in him; and he needed a political situation such as existed in Illinois to make him at the opportune time the President of the United States. It was during this period in Lincolns life that the youngest of the trio came on the scene. He was Leonard Swett, bom near the village of Turner in Oxford county, Maine, on August 11, 1825. After three years at Waterville (now Colby) college, he began studying in the office of a law firm in Portland. He . . Now conies another authority on Lincoln who takes what Barton said of Illinois, and narrows it down to an Illinois city. He is Sherman Day Wakefield, author of a new book, HOW LINCOLN BECAME PRESIDENT The Part Played by Bloomington, Illinois, and Certain of Its Citizens in Preparing Him for the Presidency and Securing His Nomination and Election, published recently by Inc., of New York. In the first chapter of his book Mr. Wakefield quotes the foregoing passage from Bartons speech and adds: Lincoln did not become President merely through his own ability. To be sure this was the ultimate cause of his success, but there were other factors in the situation. One of these was that he became fitted for office through hard experience in association with men of unusual capacity; and another, that he won the support of three influential men in Bloomington who devoted themselves with untiring energy to his cause. Those three men were Jesse W. Fell, David Davis and Leonard Swett. One of them was a Quaker from Pennsylvania, one was bom on the eastern shore of Maryland and the third was a Yankee from Maine. So those three states can claim some share with Illinois, through their three native sons, in giving Abraham Lincoln to the nation and to the world. Jesse Fell was the Quaker. He was bom in New Garden township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1808, just three months before a son arrived in the log cabin home of Tom and Nancy Hanks Lincoln Wilson-Erick-so- n, DAVID DAVIS stayed there two years, traveled for a year in the South and finally volunteered to serve in the Mexican war, during which time he contracted a disease which nearly proved fatal. Discharged from the service at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., before he had fully recovered, Swett started for home. En route east he arrived in Bloomington where he settled down to teaching school and reading law while regaining his health. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1849, and began the active practice of law in Bloomington. Through his acquaintance with Judge Davis he met Lincoln, who had just returned from his one term in congress to take up his work as a circuit-ridin- g lawyer again. Lincoln spent over half of every year riding the circuit," And the inwrites Wakefield. fluence of the Eighth Circuit upon the career of Lincoln can scarcely be overestimated. It was on this circuit that Lincoln made the friendship of all sorts of people, and here he first became famous. But it was principally his friends in Bloom- - 'j&f The Wigwam in Chicago Where Lincoln Was Nominated ington, headed by Jesse W. Fell, down in Kentucky. Migrating Judge David Davis and Leonard West at the age of twenty-threSwett, who created his countryFell studied law in an attorney's wide fame, conceived of him as office in Steubenville, Ohio, for President, and secured his nomtwo years, then continued his ination." westward-farin- g to the raw little The first step toward this goal pioneer village of Bloomington, was taken by Jesse W. Fell in 111., where he opened its first 1854. On May 30 of that year law office in the spring of 1833. the bill, which The next year legal business had been introduced into contook Fell to Vandalia, then the gress by Senator Stephen A. state capital, and there he met a Douglas, became a law. Almost lanky young legislator from SaneleAbraham named immediately the gamon county ments in the North began to Lincoln. This marked the be- e, Kansas-Nebras- ka anti-slave- ry Coleman Pattern SELF-HEATI- 1084 - A crochet hook, some string and this simple pattern are all one needs to turn out this lovely patterning of butterflies and flowers a charming contrast of solid crochet and airy stitch. Get busy on a set! Pattern 1084 contains directions and charts for making the set shown;, illustrations of stitches needed; material requirements; suggestions for a variety of uses. Send 15 cents in stamps or CQins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Dept., 82 Eighth Ave.i New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. Nee-dlecra- Lincoln in make an issue of the bill and in August Douglas returned to his home state to justify his efforts in its behalf. On September 1 Douglas made a speech in Chia cago, defending the bill and he was scheduled to address a Democratic meeting in Bloomington on the same subject later in the month. In the meantime a German state convention was held in Bloomington and on the evening of September 12, Lincoln who was then in town to attend court, was invited to address the delegates. On that occasion he for the first time in his life, publicly and in forthright words denounced slavery and asserted that it was incompatible with American InstiAs a result of this tutions." speech Jesse Fell conceived the idea of having a discussion of the subject by Lincoln and Douglas when the latter came to Bloomington for the Democratic meeting on September 26. So Fell arranged to have Lincoln be in Bloomington on that date and when Douglas arrived he laid before the two men his plan for a series of joint debates. Lincoln was willing, but Douglas declined. Although Fell's plan failed at the time, he did not give up the idea and for the next four years he continued to urge that the debates be held. In the meantime Lincoln, although defeated in his attempt to win a seat in the United States senate in an election held in February, 1855, had become increasingly prominent in the councils of the party in Illinois. On May 29, 1856 this party held a state convention in Bloomington to choose candidates for state offices and elect delegates to a national convention. At that time Lincoln delivered in Majors hall in Bloomhis famous ington Lost Speech," the climax of which was his declaration We will say to the Southern d is unionists, We wont go .out of the Union, and you SHANT! But if 1856 was an important year in Lincoln's career, 1858 was even more important. He and Douglas were rivals in the election for United States senator and they were opponents in dethe famous bates. Douglas won the election but popular opinion returned Lincoln as the winner of the debates. Moreover, they made him for the first time a nationally known figure. Until nationally known, his rise to the presidency was impossible." Just as Jesse W. Fell was the first to suggest the debates with Douglas, so was he the first man seriously to think of Lincoln as a Presidential possibility and to urge Lincoln to become a candidate. In giving the circumstances under which this came about, Wakefield quotes Fells own words as follows: In the fall of 1858, during the discussion between Senator Douglas and Mr. Lincoln, I had occasion to visit the Middle and Eastern states; and as the whole country was then agitated by the slavery question, and that discussion cut a prominent figure in the agitation, I was frequently applied to for information in reference to Mr. Lincoln. I felt my state pride flattered by these inquiries, and still more to find the New York Tribune, and other papers, publishing copious extracts from these discussions, taken from the Chicago press. I did what little I could to satisfy so laudable a curiosity, not thinking, at first, that anything further would come of this discussion, in reference to Mr. Lincoln, than his election to the senate. At length, from the frequency of these inquiries and public notices of the Illinois contest, an impression began to form, that by judicious efforts he could be made the Republican candidate for the presidency in Kansas-Nebrask- Anti-Nebras- ka Anti-Nebras- ka Lincoln-Dougl- I860. 1860 ' Upon his return home, Fell presented the matter to Lincoln who rather the idea. He admitted that he would like to be President but that he was also aware of the many practical difficulties which would prevent its coming to pass. Fell, however, was firm in his conviction that it could be brought about and, as corresponding secretary of the Republican state central committee, he industriously promoted the idea everywhere he went in Illinois. Furthermore he prevailed upon Lincoln to write an autobiographical sketch which he sent to a Republican leader in Pennsylvania who gave it wide circulation in the East. 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