Speech of Hon. Louis W. Fairfield of Indiana
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Louis W. Fairfield of Indiana: Delivered Before the Lincoln Club, Brooklyn, N. Y., February 12, 1921 This man applied inexorable logic to every problem. His mind ever asked the question as to the reason and the rightness of every human interest, but at the same time he exhibited the innocence and humility of a child, the tenderness and graciousness of a woman, even to those who maligned him. He was born in Kentucky, the State of Boone and Clay and Davy Crockett; the State of romance and tragedy. The atmosphere in which the portals of life opened were filled with the courage, the self-denial, the martyrdom of those who crossed over in the early days to redeem the wilderness and to plant the civilization of the West His birthplace in after years produced a profound impression upon his thought and feeling. He was born in Hardin County, Ky., in 1809. He spent but seven years of his life in Kentucky. There are no details of that life. His father seemed hopelessly unable to prosper. To those who can not succeed here, there is always the allurement of another place where the securing of riches is easy and the problems of life simplified. So Thomas Lincoln heard of the wonderful opportunities in Indiana, that had just come into the Union, and in 1816 loaded all his possessions into a flat boat and floated down the river to the new Eldorado. Hi essential wealth consisted of three barrels of whisky. On the way down the boat capsized and the barrels spilled into the river. By dint of much effort it was rescued. A landing was at last effected, and on the clay hills that skirt the valley of the Ohio Thomas Lincoln chose to make his home. It was a country in which at best the soil gives but meager returns, and his lack of judgment is clearly discerned in the character of the choice that he made. At this time Abe was 7 years of age. There in the woods Thomas Lincoln built a cabin of rough unhewn logs, inclosed on but three sides, with a dirt floor, pegs driven in the side of the wall by which to ascend to the loft above. Crude, cold, uncomfortable, with his wife and two children he spent the first year in Indiana here. Later he built a more comfortable house of hewn logs. Two years afterwards his mother died. Some 20 years ago it was my privilege to stand on the spot where that cabin was erected. To me it seemed as if the woods and fields were holy ground. I walked down the hillside across the little valley and climbed the hill to the spot where Abraham Lincolns mother is buried. Ever there was with me the barefoot boy with breaking heart, who in utter loneliness and anguish of spirit saw the mother of his childhood lowered in the rude box and hidden forever from his sight. Unshod, meagerly clothed, a shiftless father, before him the hard and frugal life of the pioneer. No schools, no church, no social life. Little promise of greatness here. It is, perhaps, not fully realized that all the formative years of Mr. Lincolns life were lived in southern Indiana on a 40-acre farm, for which his father was never able to pay. Mr. Lincoln would have little to say of himself, the life of his parents, or the history of the family before they moved to Indiana. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state o
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