The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . n avoid the debt, and at the same time attain your have a large room with a double bed upstairs, which you arevery welcome to share with me. Where is your room? said he. Upstairs, said I, pointing to a pair of winding stairswhich led from the store to my room. He took his saddle-bags on his arm, went upstairs, setthem on the floor, and came down with the most changed ex-pre
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . n avoid the debt, and at the same time attain your have a large room with a double bed upstairs, which you arevery welcome to share with me. Where is your room? said he. Upstairs, said I, pointing to a pair of winding stairswhich led from the store to my room. He took his saddle-bags on his arm, went upstairs, setthem on the floor, and came down with the most changed ex-pression of countenance. Beaming with pleasure, he ex-claimed : Well, Speed, I am moved. Another friend, William Butler, with whom Lincoln hadbecome intimate at Vandalia, took him to board; life atSpringfield thus began under as favorable auspices as hecould hope for. After Chicago, Springfield was at that day the most prom-ising city in Illinois. It had some fifteen hundred inhabitants,and the removal of the capital was certain to bring manymore. Already, in fact, the town felt the effect. The ownerof real estate sees his property rapidly enhancing in value,declared the Sangamon Journal; the merchant anticipates. ?r. +a g - <=* 9 Si - r ~
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