. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery. t many boys would call necessary clothing to sub-scribe to the Louisville Courier, then edited by that fa-mous whig, George D. Prentice, a witty and most brill-iant man. This was, as he afterwards said, his greatestluxury. He read every word, and some of its articleswere committed to memory by sheer force of habit. Pon-dering over the editorial articles of his favorite newspaper,he attempted to discover how they were constructed, andwhat were the rules by which language was composedand sentences framed. Application to the village school-m
. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery. t many boys would call necessary clothing to sub-scribe to the Louisville Courier, then edited by that fa-mous whig, George D. Prentice, a witty and most brill-iant man. This was, as he afterwards said, his greatestluxury. He read every word, and some of its articleswere committed to memory by sheer force of habit. Pon-dering over the editorial articles of his favorite newspaper,he attempted to discover how they were constructed, andwhat were the rules by which language was composedand sentences framed. Application to the village school-master gave him a hint as to grammar, and he was notsatisfied until he had hunted down, somewhere in theregion, a copy of Kirkhams Grammar. This he car-ried home, borrowed, in great triumph, nor did he pauseuntil he had mastered its contents. Speaking of it, longafterwards, he said that he was surprised to find how littlethere was in a work that was made so much of by theschoolmaster. He had collared it in a week, and hadreturned the book to its CHAPTER V. A PLUNGE INTO POLITICS. Young Lincolns Growing Passion for Knowledge—Candidate for the StateLegislature—Captain in the Black Hawk War—A Gathering of MenSince Famous—Hardships of the Volunteer Soldiers—Stump-Speakingand Defeat—Lincoln as a Country Merchant—Lawyer and Surveyor. UP to this time, Lincoln had never held any office,except that of an occasional clerk of far as we know, he never had any ambition foroffice-holding. But the spring of 1832 found him outof business, out of work. Offutts store had gone topieces, that gentlemans numerous irons in the firehaving at last proved too many for him. If everLincoln was at liberty to try his hand at politics, this wasthe time. He had been trained, or rather had grown up,in the backwoods, had gradually made the acquaintanceof mankind, had meditated and read as no young manever before had meditated and read, and had accustomedhimself to speaking exte
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