Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1889-02-15
LINCOLN,
A MEMORIAL EXERCISE.

School in Concert.
"Now must the Storied rotomic
Laurels forever divide;
Now TO tho Sangamnn famecss,
Give Of Its centuty's pride
Sangnmon, queen ui the prairies,
Pltcldly westward that flows,
Far In whose valley Of silence
Calm he has sought his repose
Over our Waahlngtons river,
Sunrise shines golden and fair
Sunset on 6nngamon fairer,
Father and martyr sleeps there"
Single Voices
]. Abraham Lincoln was horn in La
Rue county, KY, Feb. IL, 1909.
.. His father was improvident and ig-
noraut, being barely able to write his own
name.
8. Lincoln loved both parents, but oil
his mother he once said with tears, Gan
that am or hope to he owe to my an
gel mother. Blessings on her memory :
His father attributed much of hrs hard
fortune 10 his lack of education, and re-
solved to give his children the best edu.
cation that he could.
4. When Lincoln was seven years old
the home was sold for $500, thm amount
being paid in ten barrels OF whisky and
twenty dollars cash. The family started
down the Ohio on hat-boat.
5. After losing, by wreck, much
which they could i'll afford to spare from
their scanty possessions, they finally set
tied in Indiana.
@. Lincoln. entire school-life was but
year in length.
7. lie often wrote letters for the neigh
bors, and he was great reader.
8. The principle books to which he
had access were -F,op's Fables, Pilgrims
Progress, and the lives of Washington,
Henry Clay and franklin,
Q. Remembering his childhood study
of the Revolution. lie said in after years,
II recollect thinking then, boy even though
I was, that there must have been some
thing more than common that these men
struggled for"
10. Living in childhood and youth
among the toughest OF rough men, he
never acquired a vice. No liquor entered
his lips, no profanity ever came forth from
them. He was good story-teller, honest
and truthful, and was as popular at home
as afterward through the nation.
IL. One who worked with Lincoln
when he was young man says he wNH
then tall and ungainly, dressed in trousers
made of aax and tow, cut tight ut the
ankle, and ont at both knees. He split
rails to get clothing, and made bargain
with MrH. Nancy Miller to split four hun
dred rnils for every yard of brown jean,
dyed with white walnut bark, needed Ia
make him pair of Trousers. lie often
walked SIX or seven miles TO and from
his work.
IL. While employed in store in
New Salem, ILL.,, he acquired the nick
name Of "ITonest Abe," which clung to
him through life.
13. When twenty-thres years old he
served ss captain in the Black Hawk War
On his return he was nominated for III,
State Legislature, but failed of election
IA. About this time he was made post
master. The Office was too small to b,
used as political prize, and was giver
to the young man because everybody liked
him, aud because he was the only on,
willing to take it who could make out
the returns.
Is. Lincoln was pleased with the ap-
pointment because it gave him a chance
to read every newspaper taken in til,
place he had never been able to see Il, al
what he wanted TO, before. The revenue
from the Office would not warrant hi
being tied to il, so lie made post-offic
of his hat; when an anxious locker for
!etter found the postmaster he found Ih
othce. {
16. Years after, lawyer, an agent O
the Post Office Department, entered hi
office one day and asked il Abraham
Lincoln was within, adding. There's
little balance due from him, ms postmaster.
Mr.. Lincoln looked perrlexed for min
ute, and friend standing by sait, Lin
coin if you are IN want of money, let m
help you" The LAWYER made no reply
but suddenly lose. pulled out httle Trunk
and asked the amount. The sum 5ein
named, Mr.. Lincoln opened the trunk
took out small package Of coin wrappe
in a cotton rag, and counted out the ex
act suna-some seventeen cents. After th
agent left he remarked, II never use an
mans money but my own."
II. He learned surveying. tried speecl,
making, and was elected TO the Legislator
in 1884. When the time for the openin
Of the session came he dropped his law
books. shouldered his pack, aud went o
foot TO the capital, distance Of about on
hnndrsd miles. At the close Of the sessio
lie walked back.
1S. As a lawyer lie wss still "Honei
Abe" In 1912 he married Miss Mar
Todd, Kentucky lady. In AZ he WI
sent TO Congress, where he soon prove
himself master OF the grest pelitIcal ques
lions Of the day.
10. When he spoke on the Kans is an
Nebraska bill "the whole House was sli
as death. All iell that n man OF strengt
was its enemy, and that he intended I
blast it, ii lie could, by strong aud mani
efforts" He was successinl, nnd receive
the hearty appIanses of the House.
90. In '5s Mr.. Lincoln took part in
spirited contest for the senat-r-shlp, hi
oppohent being Stephen A. Douglw
Lincoln would doubtless have been electe,
on popular vote, but the constitution a
the Legislature was such that lie was de
leated.
2h. BY this time Lincoln was wei
known throughout the country. Unfor
tunstely for him, he had been introduce,
as the "Rnil-Splilter," and this fact be
Titled him in the eyes Of people Of ednc,
tion and culture not beeaIise Of any pref
udlce against labor, but because Of th