The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-05-30
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The Early Life Of LiucoIm,

We extract the following brief recital Of the
career Of Mr.. Lincoln from one of the speeches
made by Judge Douglas during the canvass in
Illinois in 1865
81 have known Mr.Lincoln for nearly twenty
five years. We had many points of sympathy
when first got acquainted with him. We
were both comparatively boys; both struggling
with poverty IN strange town for our support
an humble hoolteacher in the town ofWin.
chester. and he a hourshing grocery keeper in
the town OF Salem. He was more successful
in his occupation than I, and hence became
more fortunate in this worlds goods. / rnads
a. good school teacher as cc1ld, and when
csbinetmaker made the best beds,eads ard
tables, but my old boss said succeeded better
in bureaus and secretaries than in anything
else. But | believe that Mr.. Lincoln was more
successful in his business soon carried him di.
rectly into the Legislature. There I met him
in little time, and l had o sympathy ior
him because of the uphill struggle we had in
LIE. lie was then as good at telling an anec.
dote as now. He could beat any OF the boys
at wrestling, could outrun them at foot race.
beat them at pitching qua;ts and tossing cop
per- and could win more liquor than all the
boys put together, and the dignity and impair.
tiality with which he presided at horse race
or fist fight was the praise of every body that
was present and participated. Hence had
sympathy fer him, because he was struggling
with misfortune, and so was I. Mr. Lincoln
served with me, or l with him, in the Legisla-
ture Of 1886. when we parted. He subsded
or submerged for some years, and lost sight OF
him. In 1910, when Wilmot raise the Wilmot
Proviso tornado, Mr.. Lincoln again turned up
as member Of Congress from Sangamon dis
trict. /, being in the Senate of the United
States, was called TO welcome him, then With
out friend and companion. lie then distin-
guished himself by his opposition to the Mex
lean war, taking the side ofthe common enemy,
in time OF war, against his own country
When he returned home from that Congress he
found that the indignation of the people follow
ed him everywhere, until he again retired to
private life, and was submerged until he was
again forgotten by his friends. He came up
again in 1854, in time to make the Addition
Black Republican Platform, in company with,
Loveioy' Giddings, Chase and Fred. Douglas
for the Republican party to stand upon"
Here we have it, from one who knows, that
Mr.. Lincoln, in early life, got his living by
keeping grocery" and selling forty-rod,
strychnine whisky, while preparing for sdmiss-
ion to practice at another kind of bar.
The friends Of Mr.. Lincoln at Chicago, anx.
ious to keep this fact concealed, for fear Of
hurting their candidate with portion of the
temperance public, claimed that he made his
living by splitting rails--whie a writer in the
Leader, OF this city, is ready to swear that he
never did anything before he was made Law
yer, except to work in blacksmith shop
Others, again, asserted that he was a surveyor
and made his living that way while another
class are ready to take their "affidavy'' that he
never did anything but boat on the Ohio and
chop cord wood on the Mississippi.
Mr.. Douglas is the most responsible author
ity yet produced, and his statement completely
disproVes the other tales-Ndt Dem.