. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery. ll theaccounts there given of the battle-fields and the strugglesfor the liberties of the country, and none fixed themselvesso deeply as the struggle here at Trenton, New recollect thinking then, boy even though I was, thatthere must have been something more than common thatthose men struggled for. The boy had begun to think for himself when he wassearching for an explanation of the fervor and determina-tion with which the fathers of the republic endured hard-ship and manfully plunged into the desperate struggle. 26 THE LIFE OF L
. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery. ll theaccounts there given of the battle-fields and the strugglesfor the liberties of the country, and none fixed themselvesso deeply as the struggle here at Trenton, New recollect thinking then, boy even though I was, thatthere must have been something more than common thatthose men struggled for. The boy had begun to think for himself when he wassearching for an explanation of the fervor and determina-tion with which the fathers of the republic endured hard-ship and manfully plunged into the desperate struggle. 26 THE LIFE OF LINCOLN. And wheresoever the story of Abraham Lincolns lifeshall be told, this account of his first precious possessionshall be also narrated for a memorial of him. It is an odd fact, that may as well be recorded here,that Lincoln, as boy and man, almost invariably readaloud. When he studied it helped him, he said, to fixin his mind the matter in hand, if, while it passed beforehis eyes, he heard his own voice repeating what it somuch desired to
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