. Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln . on temperance, which Mr. Wood thought was excellent, andwas forwarded by a Baptist preacher to an editor in Ohio, by whom it was pub- ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 37 lished, to the infiEite gratification of Mr. Wood and his protege. Abe then tried hishand on national politics, which article was also published. In it he said: TheAmerican government is the best form of government for an intelligent ought to be kept sou
. Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln . on temperance, which Mr. Wood thought was excellent, andwas forwarded by a Baptist preacher to an editor in Ohio, by whom it was pub- ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 37 lished, to the infiEite gratification of Mr. Wood and his protege. Abe then tried hishand on national politics, which article was also published. In it he said: TheAmerican government is the best form of government for an intelligent ought to be kept sound, and preserved forever, that general education shouldbe fostered and carried all over the country; that the Constitution should besaved, the Union perpetuated and the laws revered, respected and enforced. Alawyer named Pritchard chanced to pass that way, and, being favored with aperusal of Abes piece, declared that it was excellent, and had it printed insome obscure paper, causing the author an extraordinary access of pride. In 1828, at the age of nineteen, Abe began to grow restless. He wantedto leave home, and consulted Mr. Wood about it, who advised him to remain with. LINCOLN RECEIVES TWO SILVER HALF DOLLARS. his father until he should become of age. In the same spring, Abe went to workfor a Mr. Gentry, and his son Allen and Lincoln took a flatboat-load of baconand other produce to New Orleans. Abe was paid eight dollars per month, andate and slept on board, and Gentry paid his passage back on the deck of a steam-boat. While the boat was loading at Gentrys Landing, near Rockport, on theOhio, Miss Roby, the girl whom he had helped to spell defied, watched afterward became Allen Gentrys wife. She says: One evening Abe and Iwere sitting on the boat, and I said to him that the sun was going down. Thatis not so; it dont really go down, it seems so. The earth turns from west toeast, and the revolution of the earth carries us under, as it were. We do thesinking, as you
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