. Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated . s unsettled and his friend, Bowlin Greene, had totake him off to a lonely log cabin and keep him until herecovered his sanity. Then was when he learned thepoem beginning: Oh, why should the spirit
. Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated . s unsettled and his friend, Bowlin Greene, had totake him off to a lonely log cabin and keep him until herecovered his sanity. Then was when he learned thepoem beginning: Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be An old friend who asked him after his election to thePresidency if it was true that he loved and courted AnnRutledge, got this reply: It is true—true; indeed I did. I have loved the name MISCELLANEOUS. 26/ of Rutledge to this day. It was my first. I loved thewoman dearly. She was a handsome girl; would havemade a good, loving wife; was natural and quite intel-lectual, though not highly educated. I did honestly andtruly love the girl, and think often, often of her now. McNamara returned soon after her death, lived nearthe little burying ground, and in 1866 pointed out thegrave of Ann Rutledge to Mr. Herndon. This affair hada marked effect upon Lincolns life, and added to itssomber tone; but it probably had also a deeper meaningin purifying and ennobling his inner nature. Mr. Lincoln, who by this time was a member of thelegislature, and about 27, next paid attentions to aMiss Owens, a smart young woman of some avoirdu-pois, who once told him that she thought he was lack-ing in the smaller attentions, those little links whichmade up the great chain of womans happiness, becausehe dangled along by her side once when they were goingup a hill, and allowed her friend, Mrs. Bowlin Greene,to carry a big, fat child, and crossly disposed, up thehill. A still more untoward incident happened once at , a sister of Miss Owens. Lincoln had sent wordto Abies that
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