Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-08-11
LEE OF A pRRs1pENT1AL NOMINEE.

LEE OF A PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE
The nomination Of a candidate for the %Yresidcn-
oy always invests tho favored individual with n
halo of nlus,riousness that belongs not to common
men. What would be ordinary in ano'her' be-
comes sublime in him, and the public interest al
ways demands a full record OF even the least I'M
nortant nets of bis life, for in each and every one
DO his partizau friends behold an evidence either
of prospective or present greatness, which it is
edifying and e~levating for community to contom-
plate.
There has been published a number Of campaign
editions Of the Life Of Abraham Lincoln but Os
they are all too lengthy to transfer to our columns,
We have concluded to present in a brief space q
record Of some Of the most important acts Of the
Republican nominee.
INFANCY AND BoYnooD.
Abraham Lincoln appears to have been born in
Kentucky; but history is proyokingly silent as to
whether he sprarg from tho race formerly known
in song as The hunters Of Kentucky or from
those who ae represented as half horse, and half
alligator Had his friends been able to foresee
the doings of the Chicago Convention OF 1861, they
would doubtless have preserved a record OF the
wonderful representations Of his infanoy, and the
yet moro wonderful feats Of his b%Oyhood. Al
though unquestionaJly subjected to the Affections
generally attendant upon early life. haying-it is
presumed--ihe w~hooPing cough, the measles,
and possibly the mumps, we regret to say MS
biographer has no knowledge Of his behavior I'M
DER these trying circumstances. While 1t Is sale
to assume be possessed iE the days Of juvenality a
childish fouduess for candy, felt q boyish pride In
the ownership Of q jack knife, and wore his first
jacket and trowsers with q dignity becoming a iu'
ture candidate for the Presidency, we cannot
speak of these things by CHI Apter and verse. We
learn, however, on good authority that young
Abraham read Esop'a Fables, Pilgrims Progress,
Life of franklin, Weems' Washington. and Ril-
ey's Narrative, which is certainly a remarkable
fac! and worthy of record, seeing that his boyish
contemporaries never heard Of these works, and the
probability is that no boy ever before read them.
His scholastic instruction ia Kentucky, aud after
his father moved to Indiana, was very much such
as is received BY the children oG pioneer settlers;
and the manner in which he overcame difficulties,
and finally mastered an education, would be re-
garded as something truly commendabIe, had not
the fact been presented by his other biographeis
as a most wonderful instance # energy, aud perse,
yerance, and self elevation, and as though there
had scarcely been q similar case with which to
compare it, instead Of there being as numerous as
tho rails our hero is oaid to have split.
RAIL SPLITTING.
And this brings us to what appears to &c hi,
chief merit with the people as au %aspirant for the
Presidential chair; for whatever qualifications be
may possess apart from the fact that he split, OF
helped to split three thousand rails when a young
man, his character as a rail. splitter, and the SoGri
quet of Honest Old Abe are the main hopes Of
his supporters,
We shall not attempt to show that rail splitting
CONSTITUTES an emiaent qualification for the Pres
identiol chair, nor shall we try to prove that il
was the rail splitting Of Lincoln, and not that Of
John Hanks, or of any other Of the ten thousand
rail s~plitters. that WAS wonderful. 1t is enough tC
know that. it lie a well established fact that Linculu
split rails, and that since his nomination the price
of rails has 'riz'-hiS rails, we mean-and the de-
maud has become so great for those he split. that
it has been suggested, that inasmuch rs the re-
mains of the original stock has long since been
bought up, and that counter leits of The article
have come into market, that Barnum employ him
30 split rails OH exhibition until the Nov
ember election, the rails to be disposed OF
mt auction at the close Of each performance tc
Lincoln clubs aud Wide Awake associations, eacI
rail to have u label signed 10y the vHnder and ma
kcr.
"uONsT OLD ACE"