Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-09-28
3" Quocumque'm 'me Fortuna ferat, ibo hos.pes.o


execution bre a7aweh .ni0iua 'o lasmt
ta The old home was sold,. their, small
stock of valuables placed upon a raft, and
the little family took its way to new
home in the wilds of Indiana. where free
labor would, have no competition with
slave labsr, and the poor white man might
hope that in time his children could take
an honorable position, won by industry
and careful economy, .r... ,.a. |
% Abraham Lincoln" as Mrs, Stowe
truly says, /" is in the strictest sense
man Of The ieoorking classes. All his ad-
vantages and abilities are those of man
of the working classes; all his disadvan-
tages and disabilitie are those of a man
of the working classes; and his position
now. at the head of one Of the most pow,
erful nations of the earth, is sign to all
who live by labor that their day is COM
ing. Lincoln was born to the inheritance
of hard work, as truly as the poorest la
borer's son that digs in our fields. At
seven years of age be was Sc. to work, axe
in hand to clear up farm in Western
forest. Until he was seventeen his life
was that of a simple farm laborer. with
only such intervals of schooling as farm
laborers got Probably the school in
struction of his whole life would not
amount to more than year.
AT nineteen he made trip to New
Orleans as hired hand on a flat. boat,
and on his retnrn he split the rails for
log-cabin and built it, and enclosed ten
acres of land with rail fence of his own
handiwork. The next year hehired him
self for twelve dollars month to build
fat-boat and take her to New Orleans,
and any one who knows what the life of
Mississippi boatmah was in those days
must know that it involved every kind of
labor. -u'-t..st
"ln 1892, in the Black Hawk war, the
hardy boatman volunteered to fight for
his country, and vas unanimously
elected a acaptaiD, and served with honor
for season in frontier military life. AZ
ter this. while serving as postmaster, he
began his law studies, borrowing the law
books he was too poor to buy, and study,
ing by the light Of his evening fire. He
acquired a name in the country about as
man of resources and shrcwdness; he
was one that people lsjked to for counsel
in exigencies, and to whom they were
ready to. depute almost any enterprise
which needed skill and energy. j h'
1S"llhe surveyor of Sangamon County
being driven with work, came to him to
take the survey of a tract off from his
hands True, he had never studied sur
veying--but what of that?f He accepted
the job, procured chain, a treatise on
surveying, and did the aco,k. Do we not
see in this parable of the wilder wilder
ness which in latter years he has under
taken to survey and fit for human habit
alton aoithom chart or surveyors chain 2"
In 1884 he was sent to thelLcgislature,l.
and the political life commenced which his
countrymen's votes have since shown they
fully appreciated. stlWhen the session of
the Legislature was over. he set himself
to the study of law in good earnest i.
In 1886, our backwoodsman, fat-boat
hand9 captain, surveyor, obtained IL
cense to practice law, and, as might be
expected rose rapidly. One anecdote
will show the esteem in which he was
held in his neighborhood.
"A client came to him in case relating
to certain land claim, and Lincoln said
to him, H Your first step must be to take
thirty thousand dollars and 60 and make
legal tender; it of course will be Iefus-
ed. but it is necessary STEP" issj ie
But" said the man, +" haven't the
thirty thousand dollars to make it with
"Oh, that's it. just step overto the
bank with me, aDdll1 getit,"f 10 js9i {.
\ So into the bank they went and Lin
coin says to the cashier, " We just want
thirty thousand dollars to make legal
tender. I'll bring it back in an hour OF
two."oW .IotG0 ID sHiss) ,,ob ob $50 q
The cashier. handed across the money
! to +" Honest Abe" and without the scratch
of pen in acknowledgement, he strobe