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J t j of Democracy acy I the Ages IRVING BAC BACHELLER By YELLER Copyright Inter InID CHAPTER Continued 20 20 The young man dJon disappeared through the door of ot the private ote office and soon returned and conducted Samson Into th the presence of ot Mr Davis ls The two men Inca recognized each other Well ell sir what Is It about the young oung speculator demanded The Time daughter of ot my old friend Jack Kelso owes you some money nn and andI I want to pay It said Samson Oh that is n a matter matte between Miss Kelso and me Mr Davis ls spoke politely po po- and with a n smile I knew about Not exactly since exactly since it Samson answered I refuse e to discuss her affairs with you Davis Is declared I 1 suppose you ou mistrust me said sahl Samson Well Ive I've offered to pay you yon 00 and Fin Pm going to make It plain to them that they dont don't have hn to worry any more about the money mone you loaned them Very well I Z bid you IOU 11 morn morn- orn- orn n tag Dont b tue be in a hurry Samson answered an- an Wred I 1 ha have ye a note of ot five thc thousand thou thou- sand Jand dollars against you It Is In Indorsed Indorsed indorsed In- In to me b by Henry and andI I want to collect It IL ILI I refuse to pay It Davis ls promptly answered Then I 1 shall have to put It In the hands of ot n a law lawyer er sal said Samson Put It where you like but dont don't consume nn any more of ot m ray my time l Put But ut you'll have to hear me sa say that I dont don't think youre you're honest wI I have e heard you Davis answered calmly Samson withdrew v and went to to the home of t Mrs Kelso lie He found her with BIms BIm's boy In her lap lap lap-a a hand hand- little lad then a n bit over two years rears old old old-at at the house on La Salle Samson told of the failure of BIms BIm's letter to reach him and of hl his offer to return the money which D Davis Da Da- vis had paid for their thelt relief relict l I I dont don't like the man and I dont don't want you to be under obligation to him said Samson The story of Harrys Harry's death was false and I think that he Is responsible for It He lie wanted anted her herto to marry him right away after that of that of course And she went to the plague settlement to avoid mar mar- ringe I 1 know her better than you do She has reed red him right Her soul has looked Inte his soul and It l keeps her away away from him bIm But Mrs Ir Mr Kelso could believe belle n nevil no I evil of tier her l benefactor nor would she promise tc cease depending on his bounty Samson was a n little disheartened by bythe bythe bythe the visit He lie Ie went to see John Wentworth Wentworth Went Went- worth the editor of the Democrat of whose e extreme me length Mr Lincoln had humorously spoken In his presence The young oung New ew Englander was seven feet teet tall taJI He lIe welcomed the broad broad- shouldered roan man from Sangamon count county county coun coun- t ty and began beg at once to question him about st Hom-st Abe and anI Steve Sten Douglas Dou Douglas Doug Doug- las and 0 O. O II U. Browning and E E. D D. Baker Ba Ba- Ila- Ila I ker and all the able t men of the tile middle counties At the first opportunity Samson carne caroe to the business of his vail the call the Mischievous ous lie regard regarding In Harrys Harry's h dea-h h which had appeared In Int tIc lie t ie Democrat Mr Wentworth went o to the om and found the manu manu- of the article Samson t Jcl of the evil eTIl It H had wrought Brought and conveyed his suspicions to tu the editor Davis ls Is rl i- ither ther unscrupulous saId sale Wentworth entworth We Ve know a n lot about him In this office Sam Samson on looked at nt the article nm anti and presently said raid Here Is a n note that he gave to a friend of mine It t looks to me as os If It the note and the article w were e written t e n by the h same t hand t n. n 1 Air Mr entworth compared the me loe TWO iw i anti and said You ore are right The same Mme person wrote them But It was not Davie When Sam Samson on left leCt the thi office of the Democrat he had hod accomplished little save gave the time confirmation of his sus sus- Tn There re te was nothing he could do CO about It He went to Ell Fredenberg What has bas Davis done to you rou Samson s eked asked recalling where here he had met EM Eli that morning Ell Eli explained that he had borrowed from Davis to tide him over the hard times and was was- paying 12 per percent percent cent for or It It Dis morning I get dot letter from Ms his secretary he said as he passed Massed a I letter to Rams Samson n. n It was wn a demand for or payment In Inthe Inthe inthe the handwriting of the not note and oud had some effect on 01 this little his his- tory It definite knowledge of the authorship of a 11 malicious tul false false- e hood It aroused ed the unger anger and sympathy sym sym- pathy athy o of Samson Traylor In the conW con comm W b Uon then prevailing Eli EJI was unable un un- un- un attic able to get the monc money He lIe was lu danger danger- of losing his business Samson Samson Sam Sam- son fon spent the cIa day c Investigating the affairs of the time merchant Ills hanker banker others spoke well of or him lie He was cast cald t to he be a n man moan of character and n f-n u t embarrassed ed by hy the time unexpected of or good 11 money So It came carne shunt about that Hint before he left lert the news try II liy Samson bought a fourth Interest In III ilie lilt business of EH Ell Ire Fredenberg Ther The Lh VIK r la i f owned d were then worth less M n to n te he had bou bought ht them but i Ills hIs faith fulth In the future of or Chicago had hud hadnot hadnot hudnot not abated He lie wrote a long letter to DIm recounting recounting recounting re re- re- re counting the history of his visit and frankly rankly stating the suspicions to which he had been led lIe He set out outon outon outon on the west road at da daylight lIght toward the he Riviere des having ha wisely wisely wise wise- ly Iy decided to avoid old passing the plague settlement CHAPTER Wherein a Remarkable School of Political Political Political Po Po- Science Begins Its Sessions In the Rear of Joshua Speeds Speed's Store Also at Samson's Fireside Honest Abo Abe Talks of the Authority of the Law and the Right of Revolution The boy Joe had had a golden week at the home of the The fair fall Annabel knowing not the power that hat lay In her beauty had captured his Us young heart scarcely fifteen years of age uge He had no Interest in her younger sister lar 1 Mary But Annabel with her long skirts shirts and full ull form and ancl glowing eyes and gentle dignity had bad stirred him to the depths When he left eft he carried a soul sold heavy with regret regret regret re re- re- re gret an and great reat resolutions Not ot that he had mentioned the matter to her or orto orto orto to nn any one It was a thing too sacred tl for speech To God In his Ills prayers he spoke of It but to no other He lIe asked to be made and amid to bethought he be thought worth worthy He would h have He had hall the whole world stopped and put to sleep for a term until he lie was delivered from rom the bondage of his tender youth That being Impossible It was for him burn a sad but not a hopeless world orl Indeed he rejoiced in his sadness Annabel Annabel An An- was four years ears older than titan heIt he If It he could make her to know the depth of his passion perhaps she sire would wait for him lie He sought for self expression In The Household Book Dook of Poetry a Poetry a sorrowful and pious volume vol vol- ume um He could find no no ladder of rh rhyme me with an adequate reach He lie lieen en endeavored ored a to build one lIe He wrote melancholy verses erses and letters confessing confessing confess confess- ing his passion to Annabel which she sire did not encourage encourage but which she always kept and valued for their Ingenuous Ingenuous ingenuous In In- and noble ardor Some of these are among the treasures Inherited b by her descend descend- ants They were a matter of slight importance one would S1 say but the they mark the time beginning of a n great career reer Immediately after his return 6 to to the new borne home In Springfield the boy Josiah set out to make himself honored honored honored hon hon- ored of his iris Ideal In the effort he made himself honored of man many Ills His eager had soon taken the footing of manhood A remarkable school of ot political uI science had bad begun Its se sessions in the time little Western VestErn village ge of Springfield l The world hUd had never ne seen the tae like of it Abraham Abrahamn Lincoln Stephen A A. Douglas s E. E D. D Baker O. O II Browning DrownIng Jesse B. B Thomas and Jo Josiah Tolah Iah Lamhorn a a most unusual array army of talent as sub subsequent history has proved were proved were wont ont to bather ga gather around around the fireplace In Inthe Inthe the time rear of Joshua Speeds Speed's store evenings eve eve- flings to discuss the I Issues sues of the time Samson and his son Joe came often to hear the talk Dou Douglas looked lI like e a n dwarf among those long-geared long men He lie He was Mas as slight blight ht and short being only about five the feet tall tull hut but he hp had a n big round head hend cowered covered with thick straight dark hair hiir a n bulldog look 1001 and andt anda n a t voice olce like Ulce thun thunder lr Douglas and md Lincoln were In a hefted argument over o the time admission Ion of slavery ery to the territories the first nl night ht that Samson and Joe sat down lawn with theme thorn them We e didn't like that little rooster o of a man tru lie Ill had nau SUCH a alga and ami mighty way war with him and nul so frankly opposed the principles we believe In He lie was an out anti pro slavery pro rr man He lie would have every ry state free e to regulate regulate regu regu- late Its domestic Institutions in its subject only to the ConstItution own wt way tion of ot the United States Lincoln held that It amounted to saying that tha If one tuna cho chose e to enslave another no third party part shall be allowed to object ob ob- ItIn It In the course cours of the argument Douglas Douglas Doug Dung las alleged that the Whigs were vere ere the aristocrats of the country That reminds me of a night when I was ryas speaking ut lit Havana ann said Mild honest lion hon est Abe Ahe A oA hunt with a ruffled shIrt shir and a massive gold watch chain go got lI up and mill charged th that t time the Whigs were aristocrats Dou Douglas las in hl his broadcloth broadcloth broad broad- cloth and ancl fine linen reminds me o of that man Im I'm nut going coing to answer Douglas as 1 i answered I him Most o othe of the Whigs I know are arc m my kind o of folks I was a poor poor bo boy hoy working on ona ona ona a flatboat nt ot eight dollars a month and m had only one oue pair of breeches aw I they he were buckskin If It you Oll know th the th- nature of buckskin you know tint that when It Is wet and dried h by tlc tte un sun I It will shrink and und m my hn breeches ches kept kep shrinking and deserting th the sock area of my may legs lees until several Inches o of them were bru blue bare e above my shoes Whilst i I was growing longer longar r they were growing gro shorter and so no hI muc much tighter that they left a blue ak around my legs which can cm I Ir seen cen t to this day If It you rou call that aristocracy I know of ot ou ono Whig that Is an crat J But look at the tine New England type ot of f Whig exemplified b by the imperious and nd majestic Webster saId bald Douglas Webster ebster was another poor lad Lincoln answered Ills fathers father's home was vas a n log cabin In a lonely land until bout about the time Daniel was born when the he family moved to a n small frame house louse His Ills Is the majesty of a great Intellect There was us much talk of this sort until Mr Lincoln excused himself to walk valk home with his two friends who had ad Just returned from the tare North being beIng beng be- be Ing ng eager to learn of Samson's visit The latter gave gaye him him n a full account of oft It t and asked him hint to u undertake time the collection col col- lection of Br note Ill get after that fellow right away said suld Lincoln Im glad to geta get a chance at one of those men who have ha been skinning the farmers The They sat down clown by time the fireside In Samson's house Joe has decided that he hc wants to tobe tobe be e a n law lawyer said Samson Well Joe well we'll nil all do what we wc can cano canto canto to o keep you from being being being-a a s shotgun ot un law lawyer er Abe Lincoln began Ive got gota goti I a i good first lesson for you ou I found It t itin tIn In n a letter which Rufus Kufus Choate had written to Judge Da Davis DaIs Is In It lie It-lie he sa says that lint we rightly have great respect for fOI forthe he the decisions of the majority but that he tine law Is something vastly greater and more sacred than the verdict of or any ny majority The law he hc sa says s comes down to us one mighty and continuous stream of wisdom and experIence experience experience ex ex- ex- ex accumulated widening and deepening and washing Itself clearer as it runs on the agent of civilization the builder of a thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand cities To have ha lived Il through h hages ages of unceasing trial with the passions passions pas pas- sons interests and affairs of men to tn have e lived through the drums drains and of conquest through revolution revo- revo ution lution and reform and all nil the changing cycles of opinion to have ha attended the he progress of the race and gathered unto Itself the tine approbation of civilIzed civilized civil- civil humanity Is to have proved that it t carries In It some spark of immortal immoral immor humor tal al life The face ace of Lincoln n changed as he be recited the lines of the learned and distinguished law lawyer er of of His face glowed like a lighted lantern lan Inn lantern tern when he ire began to sa say those eloquent eloquent eloquent elo elo- quent words Samson writes In his diary He Ile wrote them down so that J Josiah sl h could commit them to memory That Is a n wonderful statement Samson remarked Abe answered It suggests to me that the voice olce of the tire people In an any one gt generation may or ma may not he In irr Inspired In but that th the voice olce of the best men of nil all ages expressing their sense of Justice and of right In lu the law Is and must he be the voice olce of ot God The spirit and body of its decrees are arc as asIn In Indestructible as the throne of Heaven en You can overthrow them but until their power is re established as surely surel It will be you will live In savagery sa You do not deny the right of revo re lution No o hut but I can s see e no excuse for It ItIn ItIn itIn In America It has imas remained for us to add to the body of the law the Idea that urea men are created free and equal The lack of the saving principle in the codes of the world has hns been the great cause of Injustice and oppression Honest Abe rose and walked up anti and down the tile room In silence for a mo rime- ment Then he added Choate phrased it well when he said We e should beware of ot awaking the tremendous divinities dl of change from their long sleep Let us think drink of that when we con consider what w wo we shall Khali do with whir the evils that afflict us The boy Joe had been deeply interested In Interested In- In In this tills talk If U you'll o lend me tae a book bool Id I'd like to he begin ln stu studying he said Theres time enough for that lint said Lincoln I First I want you ou to 10 understand understand understand under under- stand what the thc law Is and what the lawyer er should be You woul wouldn't nt want to be a pettifogger Choate Is the right model He lie has hns a dignity suited to the greatness of his |