Tributes to Abraham Lincoln . ause I said to him, Why notOak Hill? Whats the matter with Oak Hill?He cant wait for the slow growth of under-standing of others in such a small place. Thatis what he says. He says that he is going to New York andthat in the great city he will learn to givehimself to others. He declares he cant do it in Oak Hill, thathe isnt understood there. He feels as I read his letter I kept asking myselfover and over the same question:Whats the matter with Oak Hill?I kept remembering that when Lincolnleft Springfield, he asked his partner in acountry law office to
Tributes to Abraham Lincoln . ause I said to him, Why notOak Hill? Whats the matter with Oak Hill?He cant wait for the slow growth of under-standing of others in such a small place. Thatis what he says. He says that he is going to New York andthat in the great city he will learn to givehimself to others. He declares he cant do it in Oak Hill, thathe isnt understood there. He feels as I read his letter I kept asking myselfover and over the same question:Whats the matter with Oak Hill?I kept remembering that when Lincolnleft Springfield, he asked his partner in acountry law office to leave his name on thesign hanging out of the office window. Hedreamed of coming back and taking up his oldfife in a small circle. It must have been his ability to move andfeel and live within the small scene that madehim so effective in the larger place and thathas left him such a vivid figiire in our of the big world outside was just moreand more Springfields to the matter with Oak Hill?Whv not Oak Hill?. Ih iindrev;s, Col. ^qbIq-j H. COL. W. R. ANDREWS DISCUSSES LINCOLN Says no Man Was So Shamefully Abused as Was the Emancipator. lu discusisiug the LiucQlii anniver- jsary with some Pennsylvania Con-gressmen at the New Willard Hotel ithis week, Col. Wesley E. Andrews, |Chairman of the Pennsylvania Repub-lican Committee, recalled some of theexciting incidents of the campaign thatpreceded the first election of Lincoln. Colonel Andrews has been in politicsfor more than half a century. In thecampaign of 1856 he was not oldenough to vote, but he arranged po-litical meetings in sopport of Fremontand Dayton, the first national ticket ofthe Republican party. He cast hisfirst vote at a State election two yearlater. The campaign of 1856 was itame aftair compared with the firsXiincoln campaign, said Colonel Andrews. Freemont and Dayton hacbeen nominated at Music Fund Hall iiPhiladelphia by a convention representing a combination of the Whigjand Free Soil Democrats. T
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