. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . aracter. Oneof them says of him, with injurious pleonasm,that he talked too much with his natural consequence of his excessive fluencywas soon to be made disagreeably evident tohis clerk. He admired Abraham beyondmeasure, and praised him beyond prudence. wrastling. This proposition, being less ab-stract in its nature, was more readily graspedby the local mind, and was not likely to passunchallenged. Public opinion at New Salem was formedby a crowd of ruffianly young fellows whowere called the Clarys Grove Boys. Onceor twice a week th
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . aracter. Oneof them says of him, with injurious pleonasm,that he talked too much with his natural consequence of his excessive fluencywas soon to be made disagreeably evident tohis clerk. He admired Abraham beyondmeasure, and praised him beyond prudence. wrastling. This proposition, being less ab-stract in its nature, was more readily graspedby the local mind, and was not likely to passunchallenged. Public opinion at New Salem was formedby a crowd of ruffianly young fellows whowere called the Clarys Grove Boys. Onceor twice a week they descended upon the vil-lage and passed the day in drinking, fighting,and brutal horse-play. If a stranger appearedin the place, he was likely to suffer a rude in-itiation into the social life of New Salem atthe hands of these jovial savages. Sometimeshe was nailed up in a hogshead and rolleddown hill; sometimes he was insulted into afight and then mauled black and blue ; for de-spite their pretensions to chivalry they had no 25- ABRAHAM LINCOLN,. MENTON GRAHAM. (FROM A DAGUERREOTYPE IN POSSESSIONOF HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. LIZZIE H. BELL.) scruples about fair play or any such supersti-tions of civilization. At first they did not seeminclined to molest young Lincoln. His ap-pearance did not invite insolence; his reputa-tion for strength and activity was a greaterprotection to him than his inoffensive good-nature. But the loud admiration of Offutt gavethem umbrage. It led to dispute, contradic-tions, and finally to a formal banter to a wrest-ling-match. Lincoln was greatly averse to allthis wooling and pulling, as he called it. ButOffutts indiscretion had made it necessary forhim to show his mettle. Jack Armstrong, theleading bully of the gang, was selected to from any he had heretofore engaged he could not manage the tall stranger,his friends swarmed in, and by kicking andtripping nearly succeeded in getting Lincolndown. At this, as has been said of anotherhero, the spi
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