Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1860-07-25
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lEanS. J6llh's bfuslsss aasd Ahsss soasins I
rnoeks daylight shrongh Llneolass an
slsnk biography. Here i bis letter:
fRrsn tAa pseataF en-. RzsEss.I
Rprrox On rmn asAnxzv~ neas 81 I'd /
shs last weeks issne Of toe CAT0ssSegs, !
Ia64lead n IesseE signed 1Joha Banks,
which ii so extraordinary in ny Ct 10 |
aRsaaasw s - . gssS "
: h assp 1919 ,aanxI slall.l aaa
Abe Linooln ID nv cousin. | hare known
both JosH and Abe from khair earliest
childhoaa. Blna6 lMothAs SeAn has cam
snitEsd himsah 10 she DesasAx pelitaaians
who 10 using him 81 8 tool 90 speculate in
certain 90 rails that know eogsin Ahe
neveg maae.l i have gnaaA Fears thas
broshsx Iehns LIKE e0aAssn &h@s has fishes
into bad hands, and ahat maas By nature
made for good man, bat who always
needed protesting eounaalora, may be %
his bad associations entirely ruined. !
have known tbs entige hisaagy Of beth
brother john and cousin Abe. and all thee
asaR IL ia latsax nnkliahad in &hA GlAasRs
scEe, Is sgaH, miserable stuG, nasa alsseagh
poog bxpahee johns nazs2B % signed % NJ
L know shA1 be even yak dees net klaSw
what IL Ia IL; much less did be eves wgaae
II. Il Il sha work 81 men unscs apuloas
Ia The msans thai they naay use IN CALLING
honest pe0ple. Z
In Johns letter I find long and pa
tEletic aIlusion to eoasir Abs's early and
hard life. That may be pcesieai, bat
thaxs ID hut Atsls Of Is lgmssa In Akseas
.ysuAg days be waa ainply wila hagxsas
scaFssm bog, and jaaapins aad wrestling
we're his onay aaemsplsshmNnts. His lA-.
ainesm wma bts aMmse ef many mogtifcas
tions 30 m9s Cor a. sRas n oiasr bog
fhMA either Ahs o. Johns afE@n bad 20.
do Abe's work &C nneaass, wi1em the fana-
ily wage all aiCk With tia aqua frum aa4-
ing maaarmelanss and abs wnuAa 0s nal~
licking arunnd aha e0anfgy nsgaesnng
khssn. In those emxly days We all aaw
hard times ysk q yoHng xaaxa who wzS 90
ereeAie and inauskEiaus eoaad aresa kiRa~
saf comfortably, and hssapisasy Of PLAZA
good food to eass I have often kslt
ashamed of eanain Abe In seeing him .
fall grown naAn, gsAdins axOnad the eonn~
fry baRafons, with shis saes eutEmge0usly
snraddled ouk by the mad and Instead of
his reading his boaks, 80 brother dahns
though the Dseatnr politician no poesi-
ealig tella as, he would be rowdying
aronzaa with paek Of wild young men,
| 1 we'd reEnambaa when he went eeaFsing
| enc of Major Warniek's aaRghbeFs, la this
| county, his boots we're DO misaEably bad
| thai bis feet were frosted, and he had to
& -
| and hare tia old Nl9dg nnrse AID doctor
bis feet. ....--
I am fully pursuAdsd that brother John
/ IL taking the strange course that he is now
pursuing for the purpose of making lite
/ lie money out of rail speculation, and
| e / could for one moment think that the
| Decatur sharpess, 10 whose hands be has
| placed himself, would not cheat him oaE
/ of every cent Of the anaasy, ] would not
/ spoil the speculation b. telling the facts.
i The facts in regard 10 those rails are
4 these: The little farm that John and Abe
| made the rails 10 fenee, contained ten
acres. About Eve years after this farm
was fenced, the entire fencA Was burned
/ 40, 10 nv eertain knowledge, for | haul
4 ed the rails to fence IL the second ttzaa ;
4 Lewis III. Ward, Who nov resides IN thia
county, Witnessed the Ere thai burned the
rails, and be is willing TO make athdavit
Il Of this fact. .... ....--
I I lived within two miles and half Of
this Lincoln farEla from the time it va
iFxt settled up to 1857 and during ths&
early amea cur fagmars were subject 20
being visited by Devastating fires, and
kuosr that the fence aruund the Lincoln
fnrm was consumed - least three times,
and kA0w thai after tbs Liacoln family
had left the farm, that the fence WA
again burned, and that Shelf Whitley and
Daniel MoDaaiels Rade The rails and re-
fenced 1t.
Il / think, and am almost certain, tAAt
the rails tAat are now being wOEshippsG
all over the North ~ Lincoln rails, wer,
made BIZ poor Bill Strickland, who Is nov
poor, Blind, helpless and Ia the MacoI
I county poor house. And IL these philEn,
!, thropsc Republicans would allow as 4
maks thea one suggestion, il would be x
help poor Bill Strickland, who really diS
: gaske the rails, and who is as hoaess a
he or anybody else that ever maaled 1
, rail-, instead Of spending their money Owe
his rails, HE ''-'a'
AS 10 cousin Abe being the kzeaes
|. Abe politician, that Is new title Ga
! him. When he Erst~ came to Illinois,
, know that he was a strong Democrat.
always tbpaght that he taEaMd Whig at
tagwaFssa hDsaass he haa sestlsd in Whi,
districs. And when heard him ia 1856
Ia the court house st Decatur, make
speech, Ia which be asseFSal that 10 aoss
] continue to stagitale the anbiacs 0f mssw.
slavery 30 long az was heard the c1Aok d
the lash upau The yeliuw kifl's baek y
did not feel hka Ire wma eishar serY hnnes
: nr very patriotic, goR sppposs' thaa b
said that for tbs purpose At catching Ab
clifton votes.
| know that caasin Abe dared nosAlnl
sbout eating the throat az TIC old wa
party The weary asemaaA that he saRpeae
be cosn ezake aHythlng hy bailding up
new parts. And aeyeg supposed tia
be cared one cent is 20 whAs the pRiDci
: piles Of the new party sasoald be, 6nly o
II was fixed that he could get olScs,
81 Now, 81 10 csgaaln Ahess running Gas
hoaas, that axaounts so 5asa this Som
J young fellows bad cue RIFT to run dow
10 Jimtowu, ard Abe, for the run 0f Ii
, thing, went along. Instead of staying .
bone and attending ID his own WORK, glaa
waa needing ban vegy much. That b Cd
extent Oh his hakhoaflAg.
IL coasin Abe ean honestly RET 4 goo
once, ! want him 10 do 10 hut tAees nos
! ahomgaahae lies thAs are bong told o
! him by politicians who pretend 10 Be Vi
! frinda, | repel " finally insult.
In my own hosaaiy way i hare told "a
I above 4 II oeeasrsd, far the behesAA az d
honest nelghbors ap1 aeaaaansaaoes. an
I Hish yoa 10 pablish Il inss a IT'S.
!. may trouble Yua agaEa. s.