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Show e e . T g e i L N ‘Volume 1, Issue 5 - horse must be aitowed to rest atthe i then seryettas arepresehtatrtfe for | Youag Abraharrrgrew up a. “end of the furrows. B strong boy; he eorrtrnued to wield the Every aewspa-»" | A;erght years While iin the Assembtyfi - per that came to the Vrttase somehew : he eompleted the study of law and ~ found its way into his hand. | - was admrtted to the bar. - - axe; he entered into all the work on . the farm. He ploughed the ground, Ttme passed on and Ahraham i grain, he threshed the wheat, he ear— | : grew to manhood. “His father moved | he harrowed the soil, he mowed the rred the grist to mrlt He hired out to ' the nerghbors to do arrythmg that was needed the pay going to his father. to Ilinois, earryrng his geetts and those of two other famrtres ina f Not until he was erghteehdid he eam‘ - | aruf money i - S Coutrrbtaed by Shat‘tna hrarters B | Araeag the earhest Purrtanemr- -~ grants was one Samuel Lincoln, who ~ settled in the new country about Bostoa A great, great, great grand« son Therrras Ltneoia eontmued a ey ST R o western mrgratron tradition of the S0 S * Lincoln family. After the birth of his - son Abraham in 1809, , . L wtto was destined to be one of the - - | . greatest of our Presrdents spent hts ’_ ‘» manhoort e : Washlngton for two years. Retummg o Illinois, he beeame a leader in the : - new Repubhean party, whtch was - formed to oppoSe the further exten~ : speeehmakrrtg was *rttteh used, untr]; ~sion of stavery ~ down to the shore, and, 1ookmg at the different boats smgted out.mme his family and moved northwest mto ) and asked: In thrs State Abraham meotn ‘House of Representatlves at e " one day he had an open ttebate Wrth _ Ltrreoth Was _trttle known outsrde | a eaudrdate for office, and'3 was coaof hrs Staa., untrt he beeame a eahirsteamer was going down the river. - gratutated by his opponent ror his . date for the United States Senate. We had, you know, no wharves on clever speeeh This roused the His Democratic opponent was | the Western streams, and the custom | young man’s ambrttorr still turther B Stephea A, Douglas and these two was, if passengers were at any of the | ~and he began as he sarrt tostudy | ’vmen spoke dafly from the same plat-— = tandmgs they were to go outina “subjects.” forms they kept 1up a iong debate | _boat, the steamer stopprng arrd takrng _. Lincoln was yeryeeoatar among ‘day after day, as they traveled over “them on board. I was on. my new his nerghbors antt thoug but a poor, the State Dougtas desrred to quret . boat when two men with truhks eame “unschooled country boy, he ran for 5 the nsmg quarrel over the slavery Thomas took tndlaaa and finally into Tilinois. I P T AT W Do 2 “After much persuasrou as ke Presrdent Lincoln later told the story, ~ “Ihad gotthe consent of my mother A aad had constructed a flatboat. A Abraham Lmeoth 18@9 1865 =~ o if-tree of ];aw untli he was sent to the : Wrshmg to be more among peo;Vple young Lincoln became a clerk iin ~a store. Here his "‘ratarar taterrt for o . for hrmsetf Wagon drawn by four oxen. Deehrurtg another reelectloh meohr devoted hrmself to the prae- = - ““Who owns this boatvs T answered modestly, ‘I do t the State Legrslature from his county,g' - questton by ieaymg afl dlscussmn of s it to the individual States and when but twenty three years of age.. Territories. Lincoln hated s];avery, . The Black Hawk Indian War broke | out just at thts tlme and ;tarreoln served as a captarh Whett he - and beheved that 1t must not spreadff L into any more States He stated hrs: i - returned, it lacked but a few days of . election. Lmeolh was defeated, as - “*Will you take us and our trunks out to the steamer"’ 3 1dea in this Way A S - house d1v1dedagamstrtself ~ B e i - ““Certainly,’ satdI Iwas Very the county gave a majorrty for the carmot stand 1 believe this govem—ff' AbrahamLtncoln was born in «' » glad to have the ehance of earning i ! fcandldate of the other party; in his ~ ment cannot endure permanently half 1 Kentueky Abraham’s home was the somethrng and supposed that each of - own nelghborhood however, where slave and half free.” e > ordinary one of a poor Westem set-'them would give me a couple of bits. - he was best known, he reeerved two Douglas however was chosen ~tler, alog cabin of one room. It had :B The trunks were put in my boat the o hundred and seventy seven votes out 'vsenator but two years later (1860) - one door, and a great log ehrmney Bl| passengers seated themselves upon of two hundred and rtraety east for : Lmeoin was elected Presrdent of the outside of the house. To such a rude o ' them, and I sculled the trunks and - uncomfortable life was Abraham o - . Lmeoht born. = _ put them on the deck. | The steamer | was about to put on steam agam The boy could haye had but httle’ whea I eatted out: remembrance of his Keatueky hfe ““You have forgottetr to pay me.’ representattve Lincoln next bought a store which he kept for a few years; he -. beeame postmaster he learned sur— 'veyrug and was apporrttett aeputy S surveyor of the county. While in his . for he was still young ‘when his - “Each of them took from his pocket a silver half-dollar artd threw ~ father moved into Indiana. After the - | ‘amvai of the family, the new home © it on the bottom of the boat. I could boards into Whreh logs were fitted; ‘strove for an education. He obtained its bedsteads were made of two httte from sehoots for he was not ‘upright posts with cross poles run- able to go to school more than a year ~ ning from these and inserted into the - in all. But be did read; he read TR Tt Gy e ~walls of the eabrh The boy’s bed - ‘everything that he could obtatr'r ‘He ‘was of dry leaves in the loft. not only read the books, but came to Plenty of food could be easily ‘know them through and through. T TTIAAT TRt TN T in great abundauee but corn and - ther extension of slavery ‘For ten years the number of free States had been greater then that of slave States e e T T - almost the only vegetables raised. N T T T e e T and rude manner; the new settlers e T o T - . T T e T * o T defeat for the Legislature, he was _"agam a eahdrdate was etea‘“ted and " t:ohfederaey In April, a Ceufederate foree opened fire upon Fort Sumter, in ; oT i T R ; e cery stores were far away. Soap and candles were always o dtous boy. - | Lmeoln once sald that he had read through every book he had never part,hased ‘All cotton clothes ~ ever ‘heard of in that country forva, | * had to be made from the raw materl-;' circuit of fifty miles.” He would made at home, and clothing was - al; the cotton must be raised, picked, ~ good the loss, but after that the injured book belonged to the stu- had few cooking-vessels, and gro- j spun, and woven by the women of the home. Often deerskin trousers | eoonskm caps, and homemade moc- read and cipher after his day’s work; was done; he would often be found . stretched out on the floor, reading by : the light of the fire; he found time _easms t‘ormed partof the boy’s atttre g for reading ,whertt _ploughrng,, ‘as ;hlsP | ; | Lharteston Harbor Whteh was hetd to make “ required three days’ labor - Food was cookedin a very simple T et Eleven vears after Lincoln’s ment, called the “Confederate States of America.” Rrehrrtohd Vrrgmra was made the earrta‘s‘ of the neighbors. One of these books ‘Weems’ “life of Washington,” unfor- ', tunately got wet and soiled. It - wheat were scarce. Potatoes were N e ‘Lincoln was now stared e:‘% the reaé | to be a lawyer. | which had declared against any fur¥ | obtained; but it was mainly that of - Very few books belonged to the fam| ;eamp life. Game and fish they had ~ ily, but Abraham borrowed from hlS e e e e ™ I read them until I devoured them.” TR Umted States meoln was eleeted Presmient by the Repubhean party, store he bought a barrel M‘ odds and and the slavery leaders saw that they ends of a man who was moving far- ' eoutd not obtain What they sbu ght. was built in the mrdst of a dense e seareely beheve my eyes as [ preked | ther west, and whe wished to make They, therefore now determrhed }_'f t‘orest o ' ~up the mohey I could scarcely credhis load a littde hghter In this barrel | to Wrthdraw their States rrom the E vea the Seven-year-otd boy B f it that I, the poor boy, had earned a . ,Lmeoln found a set of law books, | Union and setup a govemmea’t of i Abrahara used an axe to aid iin mak- doltar in less than a day; that by hon- called Blaekstone s “Con imentaries.” “their own. Lmeohl was rhaugurated . ing aclearing. The eabrn was rurter est wor‘h T had earned a dofiar I was “1 began to read these famous - President, Mareh 4th, 1861, but | ‘f;than the home which they had left iin a more hopefut and thoughttui boy ~ _ works,” said he afterufare,_ “and I had . before that date seyen States had Kentucky. It contained no furniture- - from that time.” plenty of time. The more I read, ther 3 “seceded and formed a new govere- ’, ‘except of heme make; its chairs were‘j During all his boyhood Abraham | more intenselyy interested 1 became. eT e | ¥DUNS LINCOLN STUDYING BY FIRELIGHT, o |