The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . ion with theClarys Grove Boys, after three months in New Salem,that when the fall muster came off he was elected captain. Lincoln showed soon that if he was unwilling to indulge inwoolling and pulling for amusement, he did not object toit in the interests of decency and order. In such a communityas New Salem there are always braggarts who can only bemade endurable by fear. To them
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . ion with theClarys Grove Boys, after three months in New Salem,that when the fall muster came off he was elected captain. Lincoln showed soon that if he was unwilling to indulge inwoolling and pulling for amusement, he did not object toit in the interests of decency and order. In such a communityas New Salem there are always braggarts who can only bemade endurable by fear. To them Lincoln soon became an au-thority more to be respected than sheriff or constable. If theytransgressed in his presence he thrashed them promptly withan imperturbable air, half indolent, but wholly resolute whichwas more baffling and impressive than even his iron grip andwell-directed blows. A man came into the store one day andbegan swearing. Now, profanity in the presence of women,Lincoln never would allow. He asked the man to stop; buthe persisted, loudly boasting that nobody should prevent hissaying what he wanted to. The women gone, the man beganto abuse Lincoln so hotly that the latter said: Well, if you. jGIVGLISH « RAMM m VAMILJAR LECTURES H JfBW SYSTEMATRK ORDER Oif PARKIM,, .V SVSTEa OF :,-, L-s r.^.«t a-NT) A KBSr TO *HB EXSBMSB^t •OR THE USE OF SCHOOW AND BY i«Ai>IlTEa. KrmiLiM :i MXTS EDmoy, EJ1L4B6ED U»D MI/CH nupROVtS. ? ? ? liyJo.
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