The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-02-12
LIFE HISTORY OF
GREAT PRESIDENT
Lincoln's Career Can Not Be Tor
Attentively Studied by the
Youth Of America.

UM7WMV figure history has already
l4AV TRANSPORTED, and whose
EEH memory IL reverenced by
all peoples, was born in
Hardin county, Kentucky. on Febru-
airy ~, 1909, descendant Of Samuel
Lincoln Of Norwich, England, and the
son Of Thomas Lincoln. an unedu-
Gated and thriftless carpenter, who
had married Nancy Hanks. Few books
came within his way in boyhood, but
he had access to the Bible, Shake
speare, "Aesop's Fables" Robinson
Crusoe," "Pilgrim's Progress" and q
history of the United States and
Weems' Washington, the reading and
re-reading Of which laid the founda-
ton Of that mastery Of idiomatic Eng.
lish which he was to show 80 often In
later life.
At the age Of twenty-one he accom-.
| panied his father to Illinois. and there
won reputation as rail-splitter by
helping to clear and plant some is
acres Of land. In 1881 he made ac-
quaintance with slavery in q trip to
New Orleans, renewing the expert
ence ten years afterward.
| After slight service 40 q volunteer,
Lincoln settled at New Salem. enter
ed for while into politics. tried his
fortunes in a dry goods and grocery
store, and finally settled down to the
study of law. In May, 1888, he was
appointed to postmastership Of New
Salem, and held the position for three
years.
Elected to the legislature as a Whie
in 1884. Lincoln was sent to congress
in 1916, from which date began his
public campaign against slavery and
his oratorical contest with his rival,
Stephen A. Douglas. On July /, 1852,
he delivered his eulogy on Henry
Clay, and in October. 1854. spoke pow.
erfully AGAINST the extension of slav-
cry into { territories. Lincoln, aft
er being again returned to the Leg
islature, was on June II, 1856, named
for vice-president at the Republican
nominating convention in Philadel-
phia. Then followed his challenge to
the seven famous debates with Doug
las, and in May, 1860, his nomination
as candidate for president at the Re-
publican national convention in Chi.
cago.
The platform adopted. while de-
manding that slavery be forbidden
in the territories, denied the right OF
congress to interfere with slavery in
the states. The south now prepared
for secession. Lincoln, elected to the
presidency, denied in his inaugural
I the right of any state or number Of
states to leave the Union. The re-
ply OF the Confederate government
was General Beauregard's lombard
ment Of Fort Sumter The president
at once called out $4,000 volunteers,
and the war for the Union was on.
: The history Of the conflict was thence
? forward . part Of Lincoln's own polit'
zeal history until his death by the
: hand Of IN assassin on April H.
1866. ,..-- =
|, Tho martyr presideut." says Ward
LAmon, In his ME Of Abraham LIN
: colin. was ok fsst four inches high.
. the length Of his legs being out OF
= an proportion 70 that Of his body
When no sat on . chair he seemed 70
taller than an average man. measur.
r ing from the chair to the crown or
his head: but his knees rose high IN
. front He weighed about $50 pounds
but was thin through the breast, mar.
row across the shoulders. and had
the general appearance Of q consump
tive subject. Standing up. he stoop
a ed slightly forward; sitting down, no
5 usually crossed his long legs or threw
them over the arms OF the chair HIS
head was long and tall from the base
S of the brain and the eyebrows; Mo
q forehead high and narrow, inclinins
backward as 1t rose.
His ears were large and stood out,
;. eyebrows were heavy. jutting forWara
;. over small Eunken blue eyes; noso
long, large and blunt; chin projectlns
far and sharpS curved upward TO nlee'
d a thick lower lip, which hung down,
ward; cheeks nabby, the loose sAin
falling In folds a mole on one cneea
and an unco(mmonly prominent Au
ans apple I'M his throat ,,1.
S Every feat9 IRE. of the man-the NJ Sa
low eyes, with the dark rings w
meath; the long, sallow, cadaverou.
face, intersecteld by those peculiSI'
7 deep lines; his( whole air, his VAN wan
u his long and sllent reveries' Dr1 ,,,ug
J at intervals by sudden and star,''n 10
q EXPLANATIONS, asN II to coniouhu 90.
!. observer who might suspect the nc na
', ture of his thoueIhts-showed that ne
was man OF SORROWS not oil touay "A
, of yesterday. but long Treasures st,nnsI