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Show "ABE" LINCOLN REAL AMERICAN Life of Great American President Has Furnished Inspiration to Every Boy Born Under the Starry Banner. era delegation ; but they were sudden ly abandoned, and Mr. Lincoln was brought forward in their stead. The local pressure was so great that he carried the nomination over Mr. Seward, Sew-ard, and was elected president in November, No-vember, 1860. The result of the election was tremendous. tre-mendous. Nearly all the southern states seceded from the Union before the new president was Inaugurated. Then came the attack on Fort Sumter Sum-ter and the terrible Civil war, which for four long years devastated the southern states of the Union. Lincoln's tact and service during these four years are too well known to be re counted. At the expiration of his term ol office he was re-elected to the presidency, presi-dency, and lived to see the ultlmat success of the federal arms, and tha surrender of Richmond and the army of General Robert E. Lee. While on a visit to the Ford theater, Washington, Washing-ton, April 14, 1805, Abraham Lincoln was shot through the head by an actot named John Wilkes Booth ; he passed away on the following morning. i ABRAHAM LINCOLN, LIN-COLN, sixteenth president of the United States, was born in Hardin Har-din county, Kentucky, Ken-tucky, on February Febru-ary 12, 1809, being be-ing the son of Thomas Lincoln, a laboring farmer. farm-er. While he was still a boy, his father fa-ther moved to Illinois Illi-nois ; there Lln- coin began life as a laborer in the bush, building rail fences a circumstance circum-stance which gained for him In after yenrs the designation of "the rail-spljtter" rail-spljtter" also working as a common saiior on the flat boats which navigated navi-gated the Mississippi river. While thus employed he picked up a little learning, and gave all his spare time to reading what books came his way. He served as captain of militia during dur-ing the Indian troubles In the Northwest North-west and in 1834 was elected to the Illinois legislature. Three years later he was admitted to the bar, and met with much success as an advocate. In 1847 he was elected to congress, where he supported the Whig party and became be-came conspicuous as an opponent of slavery. The Whig party was broken up after the presidential election of 1852, and two years later he appeared as leader of the newly organized Republican Re-publican party. He made several unsuccessful un-successful attempts to obtain a seat In the senate. In 1860, however, he was raised to the highest office in the republic. The national Republican convention met at Chicago in June of that year, and up to the eleventh hour it was r ' that Mr. Chav?f the state |
