Abraham Lincoln : a character sketch . harves on the Western streams; and the custom was, if passengers were at any of thelandings, for them to go out ina boat, the steamer stoppingand taking them on board. I was contemplating mynew flatboat, and wonderingwhether I could make it strong-er or improve it in any partic-ular, when two men came downto the shore in carriages withtrunks, and looking at the dif-ferent boats singled out mine,and asked, Who owns this? Ianswered, somewhat modestly,I do. Will you, said one ofthem, take us and our trunks out to the steamer? Cer-tainly,said I. I was very gl
Abraham Lincoln : a character sketch . harves on the Western streams; and the custom was, if passengers were at any of thelandings, for them to go out ina boat, the steamer stoppingand taking them on board. I was contemplating mynew flatboat, and wonderingwhether I could make it strong-er or improve it in any partic-ular, when two men came downto the shore in carriages withtrunks, and looking at the dif-ferent boats singled out mine,and asked, Who owns this? Ianswered, somewhat modestly,I do. Will you, said one ofthem, take us and our trunks out to the steamer? Cer-tainly,said I. I was very glad to have the chance of earn-ing something. I supposed that each of them would giveme two or three bits. The trunks were put on my flatboat,the passengers seated themselves on the trunks, and Isculled them out to the steamboat. They got on board, and I lifted up their heavy trunks,and put them on deck. The steamer was about to puton steam again, when I called out that they had forgot-ten to pay me. Each of them took from his pocket a. Chas. Sumner, a Supporter of Lincoin during his Administration. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. !69 silver half-dollar, and threw it on the floor of my boat. Icould scarcely believe my eyes as I picked up the , you may think it was a very little thing,and in these days it seems to me a trifle; but it was amost important incident in my life. I could scarcelycredit that I, a poor boy, had earned a dollar in less thana day—that by honest work I had earned a dollar. Theworld seemed wider and fairer before me. I was a morehopeful and confident being from that time. SAYINGS OF LINCOLN. When the white man governs himself, that is self-gov-ernment; but when he governs himself, and also governsanother man, that is more than self-government—that isdespotism. Little by little, but steadily as mans march to thegrave, we have been giving up the old for the new eighty years ago we began by declaring that allmen are created equal; but now from th
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