The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . business and population. Sa-lem Hill is now only a green cow pasture. Lincolns first sight of the town had been in April, 1831,when he and his crew had been detained in getting their flat-boat over the Rutledge and Cameron mill-dam. When hewalked into New Salem, three months later, he was not alto-gether a stranger, for the people remembered him as the in-genious flat-boatman who
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . business and population. Sa-lem Hill is now only a green cow pasture. Lincolns first sight of the town had been in April, 1831,when he and his crew had been detained in getting their flat-boat over the Rutledge and Cameron mill-dam. When hewalked into New Salem, three months later, he was not alto-gether a stranger, for the people remembered him as the in-genious flat-boatman who had freed his boat from water byresorting to the miraculous expedient of boring a hole in thebottom. Offutts goods had not arrived when Mr. Lincoln reachedNew Salem; and he loafed about, so those who rememberhis arrival say, good-naturedly taking a hand in whatever hecould find to do, and in his droll way making friends of ev-erybody. By chance, a bit of work fell to him almost at once,which introduced him generally and gave him an opportunity ; ??»..v.,-,—r~......i ? • : ri r r. n—k—i—I < i s/XJVX vK N*H ! IN J ! ^Ifi v H j _ KM v nJ \ ^ I s: - Tv 1 <J I N n- ^In ------- : X ? - xi X. FIRST APPEARANCE IN POLITICS 6l to make a name in the neighborhood. It was election day. Inthose days elections in Illinois were conducted by the vivavoce method. The people did try voting by ballot, but the ex-periment was unpopular. It required too much form andin 1829 the former method of voting was restored. Thejudges and clerks sat at a table with the poll-book beforethem. The voter walked up, and announced the candidate ofhis choice, and it was recorded in his presence. There was noticket peddling, and ballot-box stuffing was impossible. Thevillage school-master, Mentor Graham by name, was clerk atthis particular election, but his assistant was ill. Lookingabout for some one to help him, Mr. Graham saw a tallstranger loitering around the polling-place, and called tohim: Ca
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