The Shasta courier., 1865-04-29
SH ASIA COURIER.
THE LATE president

Our readers Will find chronlcleH elsewhere
the particulars of the death Of President Lin.
coin by assassination He died ut Washing
ton on Saturday, April 18th, at - O'Clock A.
NJ. We subjion, from reliable data, sketch
of the leading evots of his remarkable ca
reer
Abraham Lincoln was born in part of
Hardin county, Kentucky, which is now
Included in Larue county, February II, 1909.
His ancestors, who were Quakers, went from
Berks county, Pennsylvania, to Rockingham
county, Virginia, and from there his grand
father, Abraham, removed with his family to
Kentucky, about 1882. and was killed by the
Indians in 1884, Thomas Lincoln, the ia
ther of Abraham, was born in Virginia, and
i'll 1906 married Nancy Hanks, also a Nir-
ginian. In 1906 he removed with his family
To what is now Spencer county, Indiana,
where Abras am, being large for his age, was
put to work with an axe to assist IN clearing
away the forest and for the next ten
years was mostly occupied in hard labor on hic
fathers farm. lie went TO school at inters
walls, amounting in the aggregate to about n
year, which Was all the school education he.
ever received. At the age of nineteen he
made IA trip to New Orleans as a hired hand
upol a fat-boat In March, 1880, he le
moved with his father from Indiana, and
settled in Macon county. Illinois, where he
helped to build a log cabin for the family
home, and to make enough rails to fence ten
acres Of land. In the following year he
hired himself at twelve dollar, Il month to
assist in building fiat boar, and afterward
in taking the boat to New Orleans. On his
return from this voyage his employer put
him in charge as clerk of store and mill at
New Salem, then in Sangamon, now in Mer-
ard ,unty, Illinois. On the breaking out
of the Black Hawk war, in 1882. he Joined
II volunteer company. and to his surprise
elected Captain of it, II promotion which
he says, gave him more pleasure than any
subsequent success in lite. lie served for
three months in the campaign, and on his
return was in the same year Nominated a
Wing candidate for the Legislature but
the county being Democratic. he was beaten,
though his ,wn election precinct gave him
217 votes, and only against him. lie next
opened a country store. which was not pres
porous; was appointed Postmaster of New
Salem, and now began to study law by Dor
rowing from neighboring lawyer books
which he took in the evening and returned in
the morning. he Surveyor of SangamJn
county Offering to depute to him that portion
ot his work which was in his part of the coun-
ty. Lincoln procured IA compass and ch;lin and
"A treatise TN surveying, aud did the work. In
1884 he was elected to the Legislature by the
highest vote c., st for anv candidate, and was
re elected in 1886, 1888 and 1870 In 1886
he obtained license to practice law. and in
April. 1887. removed to Springfield. and
opened an Office in partnership with Major
John f. Stuart. He rose rapidly to distinc-
ton in his profession, and was especially
eminent as an advocate in jury trials. He
did not, however, withdraw from politics,
but continued for many years prominent
leader the Whig party in Illinois. lie was
several times candidate for Presidential
Eector, and as such, in 1874, he canvassed
the entire State. together with part Of Indiana.
in behalf of Henry Clay, making almost dali
ly speeches to large auiiences.
In 1916 he elected Representative
in Congress from the central district of
Illinois. and took his seat on the first Mon
day of December, 1871 In Congress he
voted for the reception IF ami slavery me
MORALS and petitions; for motions by Gid
dngs for Committees to inquire into the
cunstitutionality of slavery in the District OF
Columbia, and the expedicncy of aboishing
the slave trade in the District for various
resolutions prohibiting slavery in the terri
tory to be acquired from Mexico. He voted
| forty two times in favor of the Wilmot pro-
vso. On January 16. 1919. he offered to
the house a scheme for abolishing slavery
| in the district by compensating the slave
owners from the treasury Of the United
States provided a majority Of citizens of the
district should vute for the acceptance of
the proposed Act He opposed the annexa
tion of Texas. but voted for the loan bill tC
enable the Government to defray the expense
of the Mexican war. lie voted also in favor
of river and harbor improvements ; in favor
of protective tariff. and of selling the pub
lie lands at the lowest cost price. He was
a member of the Wing National Conven
ton of lS4S. and advocated the nomination
of General TAYLOR. In I849 he was can
didate for the United States Senate, but tlIt
legislature was Democratic, and elected
General Shields After the expiration O.
his Congressional term, Lincoln applied him
self 10 his profession till the repeal Of the
| Missouri Compromise called him again int
the political arena. He entered with ener
| gy into the canvass which was t, decide thu
choice nf a United States Senator in place o
General Shields. and it was mainly to hi
exeriions that the triumph of the Repubi
cans and the election of Judge Trumbu.l Il
the Senate was attributed. At the RepublI
can National Convention, in 1856, by which
Col. Fremont was nominated for President
the Illinois delegation Intellectually urget
Lincoln's nomination for the Vice Presiden
cy. On June 2, 1858, the Republican Stat
Convention met at Springfield, and unani
mously nominated him as candidate 70
United States Senator. in opposition to Doug
las. The two candidates canvassed tn
State together, speaking on the same day a
the same place. The debate was conducts
with eminent ability on both sides. an
, excited universal interest. In the course @
J this debate, Lincoln said, in reply to ques
. tinns from his antagonist: e do not now
nor ever did. stand in favor of the uncond
tional repeal of the Fugitive slave Law
| do not now, nor ever did. stand pledge
against the admission of any more slav
States into the Union. do not stan
pledged against che admission Of new Stat