The heroic life of Abraham Lincoln the great emancipator Illustrated in black and white and with colored plates . ufficient to marry. The young couple lodged at a modestboarding house called the Globe Tavern, not far from the State House. ThatLincolns means, even then, were not very large may be gathered from a letterto a friend, in which when speaking of his new happiness, and of the cheapnessof living, he said it only cost four dollars a week for board and lodging. Lincoln long had the ambition to go to Congress, but it happened thatall his Whig friends seemed equally desirous to leave Sanga
The heroic life of Abraham Lincoln the great emancipator Illustrated in black and white and with colored plates . ufficient to marry. The young couple lodged at a modestboarding house called the Globe Tavern, not far from the State House. ThatLincolns means, even then, were not very large may be gathered from a letterto a friend, in which when speaking of his new happiness, and of the cheapnessof living, he said it only cost four dollars a week for board and lodging. Lincoln long had the ambition to go to Congress, but it happened thatall his Whig friends seemed equally desirous to leave Sangamon County. In1843 Lincoln was a delegate to the convention and was instructed to vote forEdward D. Baker. He remarked good-humoredly, I shall be a good deal likethe fellow who is made groomsman to the man who cut him out and is marry-ing the girl. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 15 LINCOLN IN CONGRESS Lincoln was nominated for Congress in 1846, and his ambition was witliinhis reach. He was elected over his opponent on the Democratic ticket, Cart-wright, a backwoods preacher, and who was very popular, by a majority of 1,611. Lincoln Wrestling with Armstrong Lincoln was elected to the Thirtieth Congress, and took his seat the 6thof December, 1847. James K. Polk was President of the United States, and inhis message to Congress he endeavored to show that the war with Mexico wasjust and that his conduct was right in all that he had done to make that warinevitable. Lincoln introduced three resolutions asking the President for in-formation. In each of these he made use of the word spot, referring to theplace in which certain American citizens had been killed. The defendants ofthe war and of the position taken by the President could not reply to thebackwoods lawyer from Illinois; they called him Spot Lincoln. In his i6 THE HEROIC LIFIC OF speech in reply, he severely arraigned the administration for the annexation ofTexas, which had involved the country in a bloody and unjust war with Mexico. Lincoln
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