The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . the county he began to be regarded as a rightsmart young man. Some of his associates appear even tohave comprehended his peculiarly great character and dimlyto have foreseen a splendid future. Often, says DanielGreen Burner, at one time clerk in Berry and Lincolns gro-cery, I have heard my brother-in-law, Dr. Duncan, say hewould not be surprised if some day Abe Lincoln got to beg
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . the county he began to be regarded as a rightsmart young man. Some of his associates appear even tohave comprehended his peculiarly great character and dimlyto have foreseen a splendid future. Often, says DanielGreen Burner, at one time clerk in Berry and Lincolns gro-cery, I have heard my brother-in-law, Dr. Duncan, say hewould not be surprised if some day Abe Lincoln got to begovernor of Illinois. Lincoln, Mr. Burner adds, wasthought to know a little more than anybody else among theyoung people. He was a good debater, and liked it. He readmuch, and seemed never to forget anything. Lincoln was fully conscious of his popularity, and itseemed to him in 1834 that he could safely venture to tryagain for the legislature. Accordingly he announced himselfas a candidate, spending much of the summer of 1834 in elec-tioneering. It was a repetition of what he had done in 1832,though on the larger scale made possible by wider acquaint-ance. In company with the other candidates he rode up and 108. BOWLING GREENS HOUSE. Bowling Greens log cabin, half a mile north of New Salem, just under the bluff, still stands,but long since ceased to be a dwelling-house, and is now a tumble-down old stable. Here Lincolnwas a frequent boarder, especially during the period of his closest application to the study of thelaw. Stretched out on the cellar door of his cabin, reading a book, he met for the first timeDick Yates, then a college student at Jacksonville, and destined to become the great WarGovernor of the State. Yates had come home with William G. Greene to spend his vacation,and Greene took him around to Bowling Greens house to introduce him to his friend Abe Lin-coln. Unhappily there is nowhere in existence a picture of the original occupant of this humblecabin. Bowling Gre
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