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Abraham Lincoln
Today, the anniversary of the birth ,
of the Great Emancipator, w ill be ob-1
served more generally throughout the j
United States than in former years. |
In the hour of the world crisis in
w hich the United States is, w ith other
nations, striving to give effect to the
great principles of liberty and justice
for which Lincoln so heroically
worked, it is but natural that the
hearts of the American people should
turn with reverence and affection to
the life history of Lincoln.
CHRONOLOGY
1809—Born in Hardin county, Ken
tucky, February 12. He was de
scended from a Quaker family,
which had emigrated from Vir
ginia about 1780.
1816—Removed with his family from
Kentucky to Indiana.
1830—Removed to Illinois, where dur
ing the next few years he follow
ed various occupations, including
those of a farm laborer, a mer
chant and a surveyor.
1836—Admitted to the bar and began
the practice of law in Springfield.
1842—Served as a captain ana after
ward as a private in the Black
Hawk war.
1844—Elected to the Illinois legisla
ture as a Whig and served eight
years.
1847—Elected to congress on the Whig
ticket.
1858—As Republican candidate for the
United States senate he engaged
in a series of joint debates
throughout Illinois with the Dem
ocratic candidate, Stephen A.
Douglas.
1860— Elected President of the United
States on the Republican ticket,
the disunion of the Democratic
party giving him an easy victory.
1861— On April 15, two days after the
fall of Fort Sumter, he issued a
call for 75,000 volunteers, and the
control of events passed from the
cabinet to the camp.
1861— April 19, proclaimed a blockade
of Southern ports.
1862— September 22, issued a proc
lamation emancipating all slaves in
states or parts of states, which
should be in rebellion on January
1, 1S63.
1864— Re-elected president by the Re
publican party, defeating Geo. B.
McClellan, candidate of the Dem
ocratic party.
1865— Entered Richmond with the
Federal arm on April 4, two days
after that city had been evacuated
by the Confederates.
1865—Shot by John Wilkes Booth on
April 14, and died the following
day. Buried at Springfield, III.
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TEE COMFORTER
A Story of President Lincoln Founded
on Fact.
By F. A. MICHEL
When the great struggle between
the Northern and Southern states
came on Allan Fitz Hugh, twelve years
old, was at school in Virginia. He was
a boy of delicate physique, but was
full of fire, and, hearing that Abraham
Lincoln was coming southward at the
head of an armed force, was much
troubled because he was too young
to shoulder a musket and repel the
invader He found it difficult during
those exciting times to attend to his
studies, and had it not been for the
influence of his mother, whom he dear
ly loved, he could not have been kept
at school at all.
In those days the passion attending
war ran high on both sides. The
songs, the gibes, the speeches and
what was written concerning the great
struggle were very bitter and usually
far from the truth. In the North it
was ''We'll hang Jeff Davis on a sour
apple tree,” and in the South Presi
dent Lincoln was called ‘‘the baboon.”
The Northern schoolboy conceived the
idea that President Davis was an ogre,
not realizing that he was an educated
gentleman, had commanded a regiment
of the United States troops in the war
with Mexico, had been a United States
senator and secretary of war. The
Southern schoolboy considered Presi
dent Lincoln a wild man from the
Western woods who delighted in blood
shed. Children whose minds are not
developed must concentrate upon one!
head in any movement in which they .
are interested. So Allan's thoughts
dwelt upon Mr. Lincoln, embodying
the great President with his idea of
the hated "Yankees.”
When Allan was fifteen he begged
his mother to let him go to fight for
the Confederacy. Naturally she clung ;
to her son, .and the matter was com
promised between them in this wise:
[f the war was not over in another ]
rear Allan was to enlist with his moth
er’s consent. Many boys of his age,
both in the North and in the South,
broke away from parental restraint
and enlisted without permission. Food
for powder was in demand, and the
recruiting officers often winked at the
fact that the recruits were under age.
But Allan was his mother’s only child,
and, being of an extremely affection
ate disposition, the bond between mem
was doubly strong.
So Allan continued at his studies,
though he read more about the battles
that were being fougVit than the sub
jects treated in his textbooks. He
lived in Richmond, and at one time
had listened to the roar of the cannon
during the seven days' battles that had
been fought between Lee and McClel
lan. His admiration for soldiers wore
away some of his bitterness against
the federal generals, but President
Lincoln was still the embodiment of
his repugnance for the Northern peo
ple. The two heads—Davis of the
Confederacy and Lincoln of the fed
eral Union—throughout the war con
tinued to represent the bitter antag
onism felt by either side.
In the early spring of 1865 Allan
Fit* Hugh came to be sixteen years of
age, and his mother reluctantly con
sented to hie doing his part to fill the
gaps in the Southern ranks made by
Northern missiles. When the time
came for him to leave his mother he
was seized with a foreboding that he
would not see her again. It Is ques
tionable which suffered the more at
parting, mother or son.
Allan enlisted in time to take part
in one of the last battles of the war.
He saw a dark line of blue on the edge
of a wood behind earthworks. With
the Confederate line of battle he
moved toward H. Suddenly a storm
burst in his face. He felt himself
collapse and sink down on the ground.
His companions in arms went on,
but were soon driven back and over
him, leaving him there with a stream
of blood flowing front his side.
Later he was picked up by a federal
ambulance corps and placed on a
stretcher. He believed himself to be
| dying, and, oh, how terrible not to
j be able to bid his mother good-by!
“Mother!” he cried. “Oh, mother!”
A tall, snare man in citizen’s an
| parel heard the wail and directed the
j carrier to put down the stretcher and,
I kneeling beside it, asked tenderly:
“What can I do for you, my boy?”
“You are a Yankee. You will do
nothing for me. I wish to send a
I message to my mother, but it will
| never reach her.”
“Give me your message, and I prorn
1 ise you that I will send it for you.”
The next morning Mrs. Fitz Hugh
heard of the battle and kpew that her
son had been in it. While she was
wondering what might have been his
fate a man rode up to her and gave
her a message stating that it had come
by flag of truce.
Starting for the front at once, the
anxious mother succeeded in bringing
her boy home. He hovered for some
time between life and death, then be
gan slowly to recover. Not long after
this Richmond was evacuated by the
Confederates, and President Lincoln
went down there from Washington.
When he was riding through the street
on which the Fitz Hughs lived Allan
was propped up in an easy chair on
pillows, and his mother pointed out
Mr. Lincoln to him.
"Oh, mother!” exclaimed the boy.
“What is It, Allan?" I
“He’s the man who comforted me
when I was carried off that dreadful
battlefield, and he sent you my mes
sage.”
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LINCOLN S OLD FRIEND.
After Lincoln’s election to the presi
dency an old woman, whom he called
“Aunt Salley,” came from New Salem
to say good-by to “Abe” before hej
“went to Washington to be President.”
The President-elect was standing in
the room placed at his disposal in the
old state capitol talking with two men
of national renown when the old wo
man entered, shy and embarrassed.
He saw her at once and walked across
the room to meet his old friend. Tak
ing both her hands in his, he led her
:o the seat of honor and presented his
distinguished visitors to her, putting
der quite at ease by saying:
“Gentlemen, this is a good old friend
>f mine. She can make the best flap
iacks you ever tasted, for she has
taked them for me many a time.” ,
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FACTS ABOUT LINCOLN.
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He knew the value of a merry jest <
ind a hearty laugh. I
He was simple in manner, dress and 1
tearing, but was big of heart and <
train. l
He was too great a nature to care c
t.ue way or another about his ances
try. The living generation was of vi
tal importance to him.
He did not advocate war for his own
glorification, but to liberate human
beings from slavery. All men were his
brothers and his equals before his
Creator.
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WOMEN LINCOLN LOVED
There was a wild rose slip of a girl
in a blue sunbonnet, with whom he
walked the lanes of his homespun
days. There was a clever, cultured
woman, whose brilliant intellect
lighted his ascending way in the Illi
nois legislature. And there was the
belle of the gay, social set at Spring
field, who fluttered across his pathway
as it led to Washington. One he
loved, and one he tried to, and one
married. These were the women that
he courted. They loved Lincoln. To
them the greatest American was far
nearer than a lofty figure on a high
pedestal. They heard his heart beat!
These were the women that loved
Lincoln. One of them today lies near
the banks of the Sangamon where he
loved her. To the last there was with
him the long, long sorrow of her loss
that cast its shadow across his heart
in youth. As late as 1864 he pushed
aside state papers in the executive
mansion at Washington to talk of her
late in the night to a friend who had
come from back home. One rests
peacefully in a little cemetery at
Pleasant Ridge, 111. The mother of
five children, her tombstone reads
“Mary Owens Vineyard ’* One lie? at
his side in the great mausoleum ia
Springfield, where the state keeps her
bier and is heaped with fresh, fra
grant flowers. When an assassin’s bul
let took his life, the American people
mourned a great President. She
mourned a great husband.-^Delineator.
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HASTENED INFORM WIFE
Perhaps one of the most character
istic of the Lincoln anecdotes may be
revived with timeliness. On the night
of liis first election the little “frame''
home of the Lincolns in Springfield,
111, was thronged with eager neigh
i bors and friends. Reports for a while
came in early and favorably. Then
I they were less promising. The crowd
dwindled. Then came the news that
! Lincoln had carried the country. The
j rest of the story will better be told
j by that great man himself. “When.
j there was no longer any doubt, or
j reason for doubt,” he related after
j ward, “I went up to my bedroom and.
j found my wife asleep. I gently tonich
I ed her shoulder. ‘I spoke again a tit
tle louder, saying, ‘Mary! Mary! we
are elected!’” |
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ELECTION INCIDENT,
Lincoln was a clever politician anti
(never hesitated when President to play
(trumps in a crisis.
Colonel A. K. McClure said that he
told Lincoln he couldn’t carry Penn
sylvania in 1864 on the home vote un
less he furloughed 10,000 Pennsyl
vania soldiers and sent them back
here to vote.
Lincoln hesitated only a moment,
and then requested both Meade and
Sheridan to send 5,000 troops into
[ Pennsylvania for the election, which
was done.
McClure s prediction was evidently
correct, as Lincoln, even with the 10,
00 troops voting here, carried. Penn
sylvania by only 5,712. To this plur al
ity was added some 14,000 as the re
sult of Pennsylvania soldiers voting
in the field.—Philadelphia Ledger
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LINCOLN’S STORIES
ft seems probable that some of Lin
coln's stories, genuine though we may
believe them to be, were current be
fore his time; for instance, the one
with the Kentucky flavor referring to
the brand of whiskey which General
Grant’s enemies protested he used
with too much freedom. Lincoln dis
claimed this story in my hearing,
stating that King George III. of Eng
land was said to have remarked, when
he was told that General Wolfe, then
in command of (he English army in
Canada. was mad. that he wished
Wolfe would bite some of his other
generals.—From “Lincoln in the Tele
graph Office.”
Michael Eddy, an old time miner
ind prospector, who recently return
id to Juneau from a prospecting trip
o Chicagoff spent some of the gold
in hours making an inlaid picture
rame, 13x34 inches of native woods
md surrounded on the outside by dif
ferent colored quartz from the Chicag
>ff mine. The frame contains a beau
ifully colored view of the Chicagoff
vorking and the word ‘'Chicagoff" is
n the upper and lower panels of the
rame spelled in beautiful white
uartz.