Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-07-21
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JoCosE LIVES OF THE CANDID ArEs.

JOC0sE LIVES OF THE CANDID ATEs.
The New York Mercury, under the head OF
Our Great Biographical Enterprise thus anus.
ingly takes the lives Of the different Presidential
candidates now before the people for their sufTra
ges. Members of all parties can find something
to laugh at in come of them.
LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BY one DcIo kno,gs him.
The subject of our biography was born at Bun.
ker Ill., on the Fourth Of July, l77G, and was
one Of the original sgners Of the precious docu-
ment which sealed our liberties on that day. We
refer to the Declaration of Independence. His
fathers name was Mr.. Lincoln, his mothers.
Mrs Lincoln, and if he had sisters, they were
known as the Misses Lincoln. At the age of two
years, young Abraham commenced splitting rails
for living, singing beautiful hymns while SO en-.
gagged and displaying all those noble virtues for
which he has since been distinguished. When he
was about ten years DID, Boston suddenly became
the hub Of the universe, and required so much
greasing that ceanly people were obliged to move
away The Lincolns went to Illinois, where
Abraham became the ablost lawyer in the State in
less than week, and learned to chew tobacco
His reputation for cloquence wac unparalleled
and as a specimen Of his wit we give the follow.
ing
ANEcDoTE.
On one occasion Mr.. Lincoln was splitting a
rail in the parlor OF Judge Douglass residence,
when the latter Joined him, and thinking to make
q good joke about our heros extreme leanness,
remarked:
Why, Abe you rail YOURSELF
Slr Lincoln looked up from his work with that
sublime glare which has often petrifed a world,
and gravely responded
You, sir, the reverse of rail-
Douglas Immediately graspcd his hat and car
pet bag, went to Washington, and asked the
President to explain what Lincoln meant b>
that.
Why replied the President, the reverse Of rail
is rail spet Backwards
Since then, Douglas and Lincoln have been
warm frien1s.
The subject of our biography was defeated BY
Mr.. Douglas for the United States Senate in 1854,
on account of sickness in the family, and has
since been known as Honest Old Abe to the
whole country. lie is of urhinchi2g in
tegrity, and though ho ohcws tobacco at present
will not choose the Weed for com paniOn if cleo
ted President
N. B.-Thc author of this biography died i'm
medalely after penning the above work
LIFE OF STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS.
By ono rho has knowH him since he ras so high
Mr. Douglas was born at Bennington, Vermont
on the Fourth Of July, l776, and demonstrated the
utility of Squatter Sovereignty before be threw of
his crinoline. His parents belonged to a noble
Scotch family, and when Stephen was two years
old, they emisrated with him to Illinois. Il wa
during this journey that he gave vent to remark
which hds since becurio classical His fA,ter
asked him if he would have apple, and on re-
ceiving an answer in The affirmative, made split
in it-preparatory to dividing it into two pieces
when Mr. Douglas suddenly grasped the whole,
excluimiug
The Union must and shall be preserved
This immortal sentence was Immediately tee.
graphed to all the papers in the United States and
Canada, and procured the election of Mr.. Douglas
to the Office Of Judge of good whIoGey as soon as
he arrived in Illinois. When about ten wears old
he commenced writing for IIarper's Magazine,
and finally contributed series of humorous arti-
cles to the editorial columns Of the Chicago ines
Just before his election to the Senate last time, an
exploit of his gave birth to this
ANEcDoTE.
Whilo Mr.. Douglas and his gigantic opponent,
Lincoln, were canvassng the State, they agreed
to hold debate at Quincy, and allow the people
to decide which had the strongest claim to their
votes The meeting large one, and it did
not take long for Douglas to get the better of the
argument. Finding the battle going against him,
H. l. 6, Sc ho;c
looking down at the short figure of his rival, said,
very pompously:
'Mr. Douglas, l cannot look a! you without
thinking Of passage of Scripture
What is thati p asked our hero, good huriored-
ly:
The way of the wicked is short responded
Lincoln, and tainted away.
The crowd ayplauded tremendously, but Doug
las was not to be outdone. Waiting until Lin
coin had revived, he quietly said
And you remind me, Mr.. Lincoln Of another
passage
What is tbatP asked Lincoln.
How long Lord how long?" responded
Douglas. lie was elected.
By way of concluding our biography, we give
the following extract from one of Mr.. Douglass
most eloquent speeches:
n Squat:er sovereignty, gentlemen, [great
applause, is rot the right of one over an
other man. accorded by the constitution, but the
right of another man over this man, or that man
ovei this man, where man is willing that man
should be his own man, independent of every
other man. This, gentlemen, is squatter sover
eighty, without mitigation lGreat enthusiasm.
LIFE OF JOHN BELL
BY an Intimate AcqWaintancs.