. Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits. pletely mastered it. Hesought the society of the most intelligent menin that region, joined a debating club, andtook The Louisville Journal, which he notonly read, but carefully pondered all its lead-ing articles. Every leisure moment was de-voted to study and thought. In 1832, the celebrated Indian Chief BlackHawk crossed the Mississippi, and, with a largeband of savages, was ascending Rock
. Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits. pletely mastered it. Hesought the society of the most intelligent menin that region, joined a debating club, andtook The Louisville Journal, which he notonly read, but carefully pondered all its lead-ing articles. Every leisure moment was de-voted to study and thought. In 1832, the celebrated Indian Chief BlackHawk crossed the Mississippi, and, with a largeband of savages, was ascending Rock were called for to resist him. Lin-coln, with enough others in his immediateneighborhood to make a company, should be their captain? There were twocandidates,—Mr. Lincoln and a Mr. Kirk-patrick, a man of extensive influence, and whohad been a former employer of Mr. Lincoln,but who was so arrogant and overbearing,that Mr. Lincoln could not live with him. Themode of election was very simple. The twocandidates were placed apart, and each manwas told to go to the one whom he the whole band was soon found clus-tered around Lincoln. This was with Mr. Lin-. ABRAHAM LLXCOLX. 25 coin the proudest hour of his life. The littlearmy of twenty-four hundred ascended RockRiver in pursuit of Black Hawk. The savageswere attacked, routed, and Black Hawk wastaken prisoner. Zachary Taylor was coloneland Abraham Lincoln captain, in this cam-paign. Xothing then seemed more improbablethan that either of these men should ever be-come President of the United States. Upon his return to Sangamon County, hewas proposed as a candidate for the State Leg-islature. He was then twenty-three years ofage, and was the political admirer of HenryClay, and not of Gen. Jackson. The great ma-jority of the county were Jacksonian Demo-crats; but Mr. Lincolns personal popularitywas such, that he received almost every votein his own precinct; though, in the generalvote, he was defeated. H
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