. McClure's magazine. From a photograph taken for this Magazine. SITE OK DENTON OFFUTTS STORE. The building in which Lincoln clerked for Denton Offutt was standing as late as1836, and presumably stood until it rotted down. A slight depression in the earth,evidently once a cellar, is all that remains of Offutts store. Out of this hole in theground have grown three trees, a locust, an elm, and a sycamore, seeming to springfrom the same roots, and curiously twined together; and high up on the sycamoresome genius has chiselled the face of Lincoln. 122 ABRAHAM ZACHAKY TAYLOR. At the break
. McClure's magazine. From a photograph taken for this Magazine. SITE OK DENTON OFFUTTS STORE. The building in which Lincoln clerked for Denton Offutt was standing as late as1836, and presumably stood until it rotted down. A slight depression in the earth,evidently once a cellar, is all that remains of Offutts store. Out of this hole in theground have grown three trees, a locust, an elm, and a sycamore, seeming to springfrom the same roots, and curiously twined together; and high up on the sycamoresome genius has chiselled the face of Lincoln. 122 ABRAHAM ZACHAKY TAYLOR. At the breaking out of the Black Hawk war,Zachary Taylor, afterwards general in the Mexi-can War, and finally President of the United States,was colonel of the First Infantry. He joined At-kinson at the beginning of the war, and was inactive service until the end of the campaign. way towns in which he had lived, encouraged byhis great popularity among his immediate neigh-bors, as he says himself, he decided to announcehimself, in March, 1832, as a candidate for theGeneral Assembly of the State. A CANDIDATE FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. The only preliminary expected of a candidatefor the legislature of Illinois at that date was anannouncement stating his sentiments with re-gard to local affairs. The circular in whichLincoln complied with this custom was a docu-ment of about two thousand words, in which heplunged at once into the subject he believedmost interesting to his constituents—the pub-lic utility of internal improvements. At that time the State of Illinois—as, in
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