Life of Abraham Lincoln (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Scripps, J. L.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Life of Abraham Lincoln He scrawled them with charcoal, he scored them in the dust, in the sand, in the snow - anywhere and everywhere that lines could be drawn, there he improved his capacity for wilting. Meanwhile, the worldly condition of the elder Lincoln did not improve. He realized in his daily experience and observation how slavery oppresses the poorer classes, making their poverty and social disrepute a permanent condition through the degradation which it affixes to labor. Revolving this matter in his mind, he wisely resolved to remove his young family from its presence. Accordingly, in the autumn of 1816, he emigrated to Spencer County, Indiana - one of the States consecrated forever to freedom and free labor by the Jeffersonian Ordinance of 1787, and which, with the States now comprising the territory included in that memorable instrument, has afforded asylum - an open field and fair play - to thousands upon thousands who have, in like manner, been driven from their homes by that great social scourge of the "poor whites" of the South. Young Lincoln was in his eighth year when the family removed to Indiana. They settled in an unbroken forest, gladly taking upon themselves all the privations and hardships of a pioneer life, in view of what they had left behind them. The erection of a house and the felling of the forest was the first work to be done Abraham was young to engage in such labor, but he was large of his age, stalwart, and willing to work. An ax was at once placed in his hands, and from that time until he attained his twenty-third year, when not employed in labor on the farm, he was almost constantly wielding that most useful implement. Upon the arrival of the family in Indiana, the friends who were left behind were to be written to. The elder Lincoln could do nothing more in the way of writing than to bunglingly sign his name. The mother, though a ready reader, had not been taught the accomplishment of writing. In this emergency Abraham´s skill as a penman was put into requisition, and with highly satisfactory results. From that time onward he conducted the family correspondence. This fact soon becoming public, little Abraham was considered a marvel of learning and wisdom by the simple-minded settlers; and ever afterward, as long as he remained in Indiana, he was the letter-writer for the neighbors generally, as well as for his father´s family. That he was selected for this purpose was doubtless owing not more to his proficiency in writing than to his ability to express the wi-hes and feelings of those for whom he wrote in clear and forcible language, and to that obliging disposition that has always distinguished him in subsequent life. It cannot be doubted that something of Mr. Lincoln´s style and facility of composition in later years, both as a writer and speaker, is to be traced back to these earlier efforts as an amanuensis for the neighborhood. In the autumn of 1818, Abraham, in the loss of his mother, experienced the first great sorrow of his life. Facts in the possession of the writer have impressed him with the belief that, although of but limited education, she was a woman of great native strength of intellect and force of character; and he suspects that those admirable qualities of head and heart which characterize her distinguished son are inherited mostly from her. She, as well as her husband, was a devout member of the Baptist Church. It was her custom on the Sabbath, when there was no religious worship in the neighborhood - a thing of frequent occurrence - to employ a portion of the day in reading the Scriptures aloud to her family. After Abraham and his sister had learned to read, they shared by turns in this duty of Sunday reading. This practice, continued faithfully through a series of years, could not fail to produce certain effects. Among other things, its t
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