. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . The people ofNew Salem were gathered on the banks, and recognized, with deep interest, theskill of the captain of the boat. A board sail which Lincoln had put up, for lackof canvas, excited much amusement at New Salem, Beardstowu, Alton, St. Louisand other points on the route. Offutt had purchased an additional number of pigs at Blue Bank, to put onboard. Squire Godbey, of whom he bought them, and the three men und
. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . The people ofNew Salem were gathered on the banks, and recognized, with deep interest, theskill of the captain of the boat. A board sail which Lincoln had put up, for lackof canvas, excited much amusement at New Salem, Beardstowu, Alton, St. Louisand other points on the route. Offutt had purchased an additional number of pigs at Blue Bank, to put onboard. Squire Godbey, of whom he bought them, and the three men undertookto drive them on board, but they refused to be driven. Lincoln had iheir eye-lids sewed together, but that did not make the undertaking a bit more practi-cable. Finally, they were taken up, one by one, and carried on the boat. Lincolnthen cut the threads from the eyes of the pigs, and the party proceeded on DOWN THF S\N(,AMI)N CHAPTER VII. LINCOLNS SECOND VISIT TO NEW ORLEANS. IN this season of the year the trip clown the majestic Mississippi, as shepasses each day into a warmer atmosphere, is especially interesting, andLincoln was daily learning more of life, and of the breadth and grandeur of thecountry over the destinies of which, thirty years afterward, he was to , Vicksburg and Natchez were passed, after short stops at each, andLincoln was again at a city which, in his eyes and in those of his companions,was a great metropolis. He saw the old sights and some new ones, and what hesaw not only added to his knowledge of men and things, but stimulated hismoral and humane impulses. He had seen slaves in Kentucky when he was a small boy, and occasionallyone in Illinois, nominally—by virtue of the Ordinance of 1787—a free now, in his strolls about various portions of the city, he saw slaves fromKentucky and Tennessee, marching along on their way to sugar-cane a
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