The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-11-04

whether this or that course would
have been best, and Mr.. Lincoln Is
simply the Instrument, in the hands
or Providence and the people TO do
certain work. There is no man liv-
ing who could fill Mr.. Lincoln's place
acceptably TO ALL There are great
and conflicting interests at stake and
to he protected and conciliatcd.-
Where is the man who could do what
is required TO be done make no mis-
takesI For our part, we accept Mr..
Lincoln as no worse, if no better, than
other men. If he is not Solomon
in wisdom, neither is he knave ora
fool. II he is not an adrioit, scbem-
ing politician, neither is he ambitious
or selfish man Ifhc has made mis-
takes-.and who has not ?-he has
been honest enough to confess them.
Men may say what they will of his
acts, we can vouch on the authority
ofhis organization for the correctness
Of his motives.
lie has large Bencvolence, large
Concicntiousncss, and large ITope.l-
His Neneration 10 full, and lis Spir-
ituallty average. His religion con
sists more in kindness and Justice
than in faithf humility, or devotion.
To do right and to do good are his
leading characteristics. Socially, he
is strong in his attachments, constant
in his enections, and well adapted to
welded life. Intellectually, there is
nothing wanting. His Casualty is
full, Comparison is large, and nearly
all the perccptives large and active.
In conclusion: he is open to con-
viction, true to his higher nature, and
| governed by moral principle rather
than by policy. He is firm, persev-
ering, generous, kind-hearted, a1'ec-
tionatc, intelligent, with high degree
of strong, practical common SENSE
If not great, Is lie not goodp 1t not
the hest man for the situation, where
can you find o better?
BIOGRAPHY.
| Abraham Lincoln was born on the
18th Of February, 1906, in Hardin
county, Ky, where, at seven years of
age, he was first sent to school to n
Mr.. Hazel, carrying with him an old
copy of"Dillsworth's Spelling Book
one of the three works that formed
the family library. His 1ather, Tho's
Lincoln, keenly felt the disadvan-
tages arising from his own lack of
education, and determined. in spite
of difficulties almost inconceivablc, to
give his son better facilities for study
than he had himself enjoyed. ~
Finding life in Kentucky most
unsatisfactory one for himself, and
presenting no bright prospect in the
future for his children, Mr.. Lincoln
determined upon removal. and when
Abraham was in his eighth year, tho
plan was carried into execution.
The old home was sold, their small
stock of valuables placed upon raft.
and the little family took its way to
a new home in the wilds OF Indiana,
where free labor would have no com
petition with slave labor, and the poor
white man might hope that in time
his children could take an honorable
position, won by industry and careful
economy. abraham Lincoln" as
Mrs. Stowe truly says, sis in tho
strictest sense man of the working
classes.
All his advantages and abilities are
those of a man of the working classes:
and his position now, at the head Of
one Of the most powerful nations of
the earth, is sign to all who live by
labor that their day is coming. Lin
coin was born to the inheritance of
hard work, rs truly as the poorest la
: borer's son that digs in our fields
At seven years of age he was then
set to work, axe in hand, to clear up
n farm in the Western forest. Until
he was seventeen his life was that of
n simple farm laborer, with only such
intervals of schooling as farm labor
ers get. Probably the school instruc-
ton of his whole life would not
amount to more than year. at.
cat nineteen he made trip to New
! Orleans as n hired hand on flat boat,
and on his return he split the rails for
q log cabin and built it, and enclosed
ten acres of land with rail fence of
! his own handiwork. The next year
!. he hired himself for twelve dollars q
month to build a fiat boat and take
her to New Orleans, and any one who
knows what the life of Mississippi
boatman was in those days must know
that it involved every kind Of labor.
! 'In 1882, in the Black Hawk war,
the hardy boatn al volunteered to
fight for his country, and was unani-
mously elected Captain, and served
with honor for season in frontier
militnvy life. After this, while serving
as Postmaster.he began his law stud
les, borrowing books he was too poor
to buy studying by the light Of his eve
ming fire. He acquired name in the
country about rs man Of resources
and shrewtlness; he was one that
people looked TO for counsel in ext
gencies, aud so whom they were ready
to dcpute almost any enterprise which
needed skill and energy. .......
4 "Thc surveyor of Sanramon county