The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-06-12
The Objectionable Nature or the New
Sensations Biography or Abraham
Lincoln.

IsGn3 objectionable Nature OF the Eeu
Scnsasion Biography OF Abraham
Lincoln.
! From the Chicago Tribune
There are parts Of the work which will
shock those who have admired Mr.. Lincoln
and will cause pain to1,is surviving relatives,
These appertain to his personal history. AS
ar as they illustrate the making of the man,
the formation Of his character, and his re-
| markabie rise from the most humble, even
sTialid, beginnings to his ultimate high sta
ton, they will come like new revelation to
people, for many Of them have been hitherto
unpublished and unknown except to his
most intimate friends. His younger DAYS.
spent in a floorless, doorless, and windowless
|cabin, with scarcely an item of furniture.
which was afterward palatialIy. digniEed
by his aep-mother by the addition of
floor, 8, bureau, and tin piatters; bis
feats OF strength in hewing wood. wrest-
ling, running, and in various athletic sports !;
his adventurous life as flatboatman the
varied, Wild. and rough adventures of his
semi-yagabondish career. interspersed rs
they are with vivid pictures Of scenery, per-
sonal sketches of his friends and compan-
ions, and racy gossip-aIl combine to give
the reader vivid appreciation Of western
life in its peculiar Sangamon phase and as
far as these go to illustrate the personal
character Of Mr. Lincoln they are admirable
in their way. 1t will be very generally re-
GREETED, however, that the, work of editing
the materials touching Mr.. Lincoln's early
life had OF fallen into more discriminating
hands. No one can dispute the authenticity
Of the facts which Mr.. Lamon presents,
but there will be few who viii not dispute
the taste which has made many of them pub
lie. They add nothing which any one wishes
to know. They had nothing to do with Mr..
Lincoln's personal or political development.
There was no occasion for using them.- Every
man has a skeleton in his closet. Every man,
in his younger days, has done and written in
judicious things, which, by common consent
and courtesy, are consigned to the limbo of
oblivion. 1t does not concern any one that
Mr.. Lincoln's father had to leave Kentucky
for biting off the nose of IN antagonist, and
not on account of his opposition to slavery,
Lincoln had no sympathy for his father
and mother; nor that there is no record
cXtant of their marriage; nor that Mr..
Lincoln INDUCED i'm Il prizc-fght as one
of the principals, and presided at horse
races, and engaged in wrestling and istic
matches nor that he wrote satires and
chronicles, and told stories of nature that
will not bear publication. A brief statement
of his religious ideas would have been all
that is necessary for general information, for
a mans religious ideas are q matter between
himself and bis Maker. tt was not neceS
sary, therefore, to make such 4 showing Of
them, Illustrated will, numerous personal
afldnvits, as to leave the false impression
upon the mind of the reader that Mr.. Lin
coin was an Atheist. I'm that part of the
work which treats of the three love episodes
of his life, this want Of taste and utter dis
regard of the feeling of living persons are
painfully manifest.