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E-book Title: Flashlights of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Julia Mygatt Powell
Book Description: This is a short life of the life of Ibrahim Lincoln, and the events leading up to the Civil War, told from a understanding perspective.
The prose and style are unique. FO example, the follwing is a sample of the 1st section of the book:
ONE day in the year 1855, there stood at the entrance to the Author Home in Cincinnati, that old hostel which was recently burned (190), a long, lean, gaunt, sad-eyed man of simply about forty-five.
His apparel were ill fitting and he wore heavy boots.
He was in that city as one of the counsel for the defendants in a case of patent infringements upon reaping machines.
As this rather gauche looking man, with all his native beauty
stood there, another counsel besides employed in the defense came near ; they looked the Indianan over, passed him by without speaking, as unworthy of notice, and walked into the hotel. It would-be ne'er
do to have a man like that associated with them on this important case.
What man was this, who, unbitter
of his treatment, stayed through the trial of this case, and mutely watched its progress? It was aforesaid subsequently that the judge was as more influenced by his unspoken, but communicative sympathy and the play of his features, piece he paced back and forth during the progress of the case, as by the argument of the another counsel, who neglected him.
And who was this man ? It was the same man who the following year, standing on the edge of the platform at Bloomington, Ill., control his audience spellbound, as, leaning forward on his toes, hands on his hips, his eyes flashing, his whole face
illumined with the divine fire of truth, announced the fact that SLAVERY WAS WRONG, and to his audience, pressing forward, pale and breathless, to catch his
every word, he seemed like a giant divine as he shouted. "WE WON'T GO OUT OF THE UNION AND YOU SHAN'T!" And then, as although to pour oil upon the troubled waters, he recommended ballots instead of bullets.
"At that moment," aforesaid Judge Scott, one of his hearers, "he was the handsomest man I ever saw."
And still five years later, in 1860, once
the committee from the great Chicago Convention, amongst whom were William M. Evarts and Carl Schurz, called at his unpretentious house in Springfield. Ill., to advise him of his nomination to the Presidency of the United States, they almond-eyed their candidate with galore misgivings - "his great height, his immense hands and feet, his lankness, his shoulders drooping as although he were irresolute. His smooth beardless face seemed like bronze : cheeks sunken, cheek bones high, nose large, the under lip jutting a little, eyes cast down.
But once
he upraised his head to reply, the men were excited
by the change. He became erect, the eyes beamed with fire and intelligence. Strong, dignified, he seemed transformed.
'Why, sir, they told me he was a rough diamond.' aforesaid one. 'Nothing could have been in better taste than his speech.'
'We mightiness have done a more daring thing, but we could not have done a better thing,' they aforesaid afterward."
Let us throw a torch backward over this man's pathway.
We see him twenty-nine years before this, entering New Salem. Ill., simply twenty-one. and penniless, beggary for work, which he promptly found. He had not even as nice clothes, but he had great strength and he was a nice fellow. He was six feet, four inches tall. He could run
any young man in the country' 'round, and lift as more as three ordinary men. Then his wit, his stories, his nice and kindly nature, which had always won him friends, ready-made friends at once for him now. This was in 1831. The next year, he was a candidate for the State Legislature. He was defeated, but won out of 300 votes in his own district. In two years he was once again a candidate, and this time, elected.
The folk looked upon him as a prodigy". Why ? Was it his strength, his great height, his wit. his stories? These all helped, but there was thing
back of all these. There was the power of CHARACTER and of KNOWLEDGE. And wherefrom
came at this early age this power? During these twenty-one years, what had he see - what had he learned?
Galore a college bred man mightiness well look with envy upon this ragged youth as he walked into New Salem to do his own way.
The books he had conned were The Life of Washington. Aesop's Fables,
Pilgrim's Progress, the lives of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Clay, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, which he knew by heart. And last, but by no means least, the Bible.
T.G. Netherlands has well said. "ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S Poorness OF BOOKS WAS THE WEALTH OF HIS LIFE.
The few he had. did more to perfect the teaching which his parent had begun, and to form a character, which for quaint simplicity', earnestness, honesty and purity has ne'er
been surpassed among the historic personages of the world.
Lincoln's lack of books threw him upon his own resources."
"By books may Learning sometimes befall.
But Wisdom ne'er
by books at all." A testimonial to this early influence was given by Lincoln himself, once
in a speech at Trenton, N. J., on his way to assume his duties as President, he said, "Away back in my childhood, I got hold of a small book called Weem's Life of Washington. I remember all the accounts there given of the battlefields and struggles for the liberties of this country, and none fixed themselves upon my imagination so deeply as the struggle here at Trenton. The crossing of the river, the contest with the Hessians, the great hardships endured at that time, all fixed themselves in my memory more than any Revolutionary event. I recall thinking then, boy although I was, that there must have been thing
more than common that these men struggled for. I am passing anxious that that thing
which they struggled for, that thing
even as more than National independence, that thing
that control out a great promise to all the folk of the earth for all time to come; I am passing anxious that this Union, the Constitution and the liberties of the people, shall be perpetuated in accordance with the innovational idea for which that struggle was made.'
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