How Abraham Lincoln became president . soldier in theBlack Hawk War. His first venture in politics proved afailure, for he was defeated as a legislative candidate;but two years later (in 1834) he sought the same officeagain, and this time was successful. Meanwhile he hadbecome a store-keeper and the village postmaster. Hetook up surveying and found a great demand for his pro-fessional services. He read law — an ambition formed,no doubt, some years before, when he had read the revisedstatutes of Indiana — and was duly licensed as a was still a member of the legislature when he put his
How Abraham Lincoln became president . soldier in theBlack Hawk War. His first venture in politics proved afailure, for he was defeated as a legislative candidate;but two years later (in 1834) he sought the same officeagain, and this time was successful. Meanwhile he hadbecome a store-keeper and the village postmaster. Hetook up surveying and found a great demand for his pro-fessional services. He read law — an ambition formed,no doubt, some years before, when he had read the revisedstatutes of Indiana — and was duly licensed as a was still a member of the legislature when he put hispersonal belongings in a pair of saddle-bags and rode aborrowed horse to Springfield, which henceforth was hisplace of residence. Lincolns years at New Salem were years of progress,of climbing, of looking upward and onward. Graduallyhis self-confidence developed; he found that he could dothings — that he could inspire his neighbors with con-fidence in him — that, in short, there were many possibili-ties for him in the GRAVE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLNS MOTHER IN an old engraving. CHAPTER III. AN EARLY PROPHECY WOULDNT BE SURPRISED IF ABE LINCOLN GOT TO BE GOVERNOR SOME DAY. Although Lincoln lived precisely the life of thosearound him — joining in the rough-and-tumble sports ofthe Clarys Grove boys, and being, so far as externalappearances gave any clue, only a tall, awkward productof the frontier — his extraordinary ability was not with-out recognition on the part of his neighbors. He wasobviously and undeniably superior to most of them inmental equipment. They came to him to have him writetheir deeds and their legal papers. He was frequentlyconsulted on questions of law. The people were not longin discovering that the flat-boat man, store-keeper, post-master, surveyor and legislator was rapidly toweringabove them. No doubt Lincoln had ambitions that carried him farbeyond the confines of New Salem. Perhaps he expectedsome day to go to Congress. He had long
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