Show lincoln in the five points point not long before lincoln was first nominated tor for the presidency he went to new york to make a political speech at the cooper union while there according to a writer in the philadelphia press he wandered about the city a good deal and once went to the five points then the most notorious of new york slums there he was attracted by the sound of music and perceiving upon a door an invitation to strangers to enter he went in and found himself in the five points mission his manner betrayed so much interest in the children es specially ally in their singing that the superintendent erin though he did not know kno ft him invited him to speak mr lincoln accepted the invitation and as the superintendent used to say talked to the children just as a loving and wise father might have talked to his own sons and daughters without a trace of pedantry or cant after the exercises the superintendent asked the stranger strange r f tor or his name my name is lincoln was the answer 1 I live in illinois and then the superintendent knew the speaker must be the man whose address at the cooper union had been so much talked about for the last few da das s |