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Show wwmextmes "DHE OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Page 15 February 15, 2006 Abraham TELLURIDE STYLE LAND had a marked influence over his future. Until he was twenty his father hired him out to all sorts of work at which he sometimes earned $6.00 a month and sometimes thirty-one cents a day. Just before he came of age his family, with all their possessions packed in a card drawn by four oxen, moved again toward the West. For tw weeks they traveled across the country into Illinois, and finally made a new home on the banks of the Sangamon River, a stream flowing into the Ohio. Lincoln was as kind as he was good-natured. His step-mother said of him, a can say, what scarcely one mother he never a me a cross word or look, and never refused in t or appearance to do anything I asked.” He was tender: hearted too. rowing to six feet four inches tall, Lincoln was a giant in strength and a skilful wrestler. At one time, Lincoln bargained with a neighbor, Mrs. Nancy Miller, to split 400 rails for every yard of brown jeans needed to make him a pair of trousers. As Lincoln was tall, three and one-half yards were needed, and he had to split 1,400 fence rails—a large amount of work for a pair of trousers. At times throughout his life, Lincoln was subject to deep depression, which made his face unspeakably sad. But as a rule he was cheerful and merry, and on account of his good stories was in great demand in social gatherings and at the cross_ grocery stores. At such times, when the social glass passed around, he always declined it, never idling in strong liquor of any kind, nor in tobac- Abraham’s schooling was brief—not more than a year in all. The buildings were rough log cabins i the earth for floor and oiled paper for winre unknown, the little schoolhouse being furnished with rude benches made of split logsafter the manner of the stools and tables in the Lincoln home. The teachers were ignorant men who taught the children a little spelling, reading, writing, and ciphering. While attending the last school, Abe had to go daily a distance of four and a half miles from his home. In spike of this meager schooling, however, the boy, by his self-reliance, resolute purpose, and good reading habits, acquired the very best sort of training for his future life. He had but few books at his home, and found it impossible in that wild country to find many in any other homes. Among those which he read over and over again, while a boy were a Bible, Aesop's Fables,” “Robinson ”’ “Pilgrim’s Progress,” “A History of the United States, "and oan s Life of Washington.” His step-mother said of him, “He read everything he could lay his hands on, and when he came across a passage that struck him, he would write it down on boards, if he had no paper, and keep it before him until he could get paper. Then he would copy it, look at it, commit it to memory, and repeat His stepbrother said, “When Abe and I returned to the house from work, he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of com-bread, take do lown a book, sit down, cock hi I and read.” When night came he would find a seat in the comer by the fireside, or stretch out at length * About four years after beginning to study law, he was admitted to the bar and established himself at Springfield, Illinois. From an early age he had been fond of making stump speeches, and now he a wooden shovel using a charred stick for a i tumed what had been a pleasant diversion to practif his political life. In or pen. would shave i the surface and begin over again. due time, he was elected to Congress, where his Having borrowed a copy of the “Life of interest in various public questions, especially that Washington” on one occasion, he tookit to bed with of slavery, became much quickened. him in the loft and read until his candle gave out. He continued to grow in political favor, and in Then before going to sleep, he tucked the book into 1858 received the nomination of the Republican acrevice of the logs in order that he might have it at of the United States Senate. — A. hand as soon as daylight would permit him to read Douglas was the Democratic nominee. glas the next morning. But during on ao a storm was known as the “Little Giant,” on account of his came up, and the rain beat in upon the book, wetshort stature and great power as an ting it through and through. ti heavy heart The debates between the political rivals chalLincoln took it back to its owner who told him that lenged the admiration of the whole country. it should be his if he would work three days to pay Lincoln argued with great power against the spread for it. Eagerly agreeing to do this, the boy carried of slavery into the new States. Although unsuchis new possession home in triumph. This book cessful in securing a seat in the Senate, he won MOUNTAIN Ane 1HUNOBSTI INOB: RUCTED ADDITIONAL Lincoln a door, a floor, and windows, and she at once began ke the children “look a lit! | ” a Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky February 12, 1809. The rough log cabin in which he first saw the light was the wretched home of a ae too lazy and shiftless to work, and so ignorant that he is said not to have learned his letters obi taught by his wife. Little Abe’s only playmates Were, his sister Sarah, two years older tan himself, in Dennis Hanks who lived in the Lincoln home. When Abe was seven years old, the family moved to Indiana and settled about 15 miles north of the Ohio River. The journey to their new home was very tedious and lonely for they had in some places to cut a roadway through the forest. Having arrived safely in November, all set vigorously to work to provide a shelter against the winter. Young Abe was healthy, rugged, and active, and from early morning till late evening worked with his father chopping trees and cutting poles and boughs for their camp. This camp was a mere shed only 14 feet square and open on one side. It was built of poles lying upon one another, and had a thatched roof of boughs and leaves. As there was no chimney, there could be no fire within the enclosure, and it was necessary to keep one burning all the time just in front of the open side. In the space in front of the open side of the cabin, hanging over the fire, was a large iron pot in which the rude cooking was done. The principal vegetable was the ordinary white potato, and the usual form of bread was corn-dodgers made of meal and roasted i in the ashes. Wheat was so scarce that flourt Sunday ae But generally there was an abundance such as deer, bears, and wild turkeys, cnr kinds of fish from the streams close by, and in summer wild fruits from the woods. Great as his privations in this Indiana home, Abe had now to suffer a more grievous loss in the death of his mother. Before she died she said to her boy, “Abraham, I am going away from you, and you will never see me again. I know that you will always be good and kind to your sister and father. Try to live as I have taught you, and to love your Heavenly Father.” Many years later Lincoln said, “All that I am, or I hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” A year after this sad event, his father sant wife to the motherless boy. Energetic, thrifty, a oe ligent, this woman, who had been accustomed to better things than she found in her new home, insisted that the log cabin should be supplied with VIEWS HOME OF AVAILABLE. ON FIVE zt. TS ACRES SNOWBASIN. recognition from his countrymen that led to his election as President two years later. In 1850 the Republican National Convention, which met at Chicago, nominated “Honest Abe, the Railsplitter,’ as its candidate for President, and elected him in the same autumn. While on his way to Washington for i inauguration, his friend: = he should pass through Baltimore. To save m from violence, therefore, they prevailed upon him to change his route and make the last part of his journey in secret. In a few weeks the Civil War had begun. His burdens were almost overwhelming, but, like Washington, he believed that “right makes might” and im ust prrevail. | 44 Constitution gave him no power to peter with slavery in the States where it existed. But as the war continued, he became certain that ie slaves, by remaining on the plantations and producing fo d for the Southern soldiers, were a great aid to the Southern cause, and thus threatened the Union. He therefore determined, as commander-in-chief of the Union armies to set the slaves free in all territory whose people were fighting against the Union. He took this step as a military necessity. The famous state ke in which Lincoln declared that the slave of the seceded Statesshed anton were waging war against the Union, was called the Emancipation Proclamation. This he issued on January 1, 1863, and thus made good his word, “If ever I get a chance to strike that thing” (slavery), “TI strike it hard.” On April 9, 1865, General Lee surrendered his army to General Grant at Appomattox Court House. By this act the war came to a close. Great was the rejoicing everywhere. But suddenly the universal joy was changed into universal sorrow. Five days after Lee’s surrender, Lincoln went with his wife and some friends to see a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington. In the midst of the play, a half-crazed actor, who was familiar with the theatre, entered the President’ s box, shot him in the back of the head nd shouting “Sic simper tyrannis!” (So be it always to tyrants), rushed through the wing to the street. There he mounted a horse in waiting for him, and escaped, | Iv} id d killed inal but was promptly were he lay in hiding. LINCOLN The martyr-President lin- cont. on page 16 ae Ea $1,700,000 * EXCLUSIVE ¢ 1031 ¢NEW PROPERTIES EXCHANGE CONSTRUCTION BRANDI * INVESTMENT * DEVELOPMENT HAMMON Local Innovative Specialist 01-389-4438 BRANDI@PINEVIEWPROPERTIES.NET CUSTOM Ane MOUNTAIN ote HOME IN SKi LAKE ESTATES Ale Under Contract PRIVACY RUSTIC AND VIEWS LIBERTY WITH RETREAT THIS. ON COUNTRY 5S SPACE ACRES. $1,100,000 LIVING WITH AN & PLENTY IN-LAW VIN We) >a Co) Pena ABLE. $749,000 OF EVERY VIEWS ROOM. FEBRUARY $650,000 FROM FULLY FURNISHED REA! see UXE HOLLOW 3 a HORSE Moose CONDO. $349,000 W AND LAND PAINT. 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