Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-02-08
LIFE HISTORY OF
GREAT PRESIDENT
LinColn'S Career Can Not Be Too
kttentiyely Studied by the
Youth of America.

60 BRAHAM LINCOLN, whose
sKEANl figure history has already
TRANSPORTED, and whose
!&g8 memory is r%everenced by
all peoples. was born in
Hardin county, Kentucky, on Febru-
a.y ~, 1909, a descendant Of Samuel
Lincoln of Norwich, England. and the
son of Thomas Lincoln, an unedu.
- Gated a2d 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," Pilgrims Progress and q
history Of the United States and
Weems' Washington, the reading and
y. reading of which laid the founda.
ton Of that mastery of idiomauc Eng.
lish which he was to show so often in
later life.
At the age Of twenty-one he accom-.
panied his father to Illinois, and there
won reputation as a rail-splitter by
helping to clear and plant some Is
acres Of land. In 1891 he made &C.
puaintonce with slavery in a trip 10
New Orleans. renewing the expert
ence ten years afterward.
After slight service as a volunteer,
Lincoln settled at New Salem. enter
cd for a while into politics, tried hls
fortunes in a dry goods and grocery
store. and finally settled down to the
study of law. In May, 1888. he was
appointed to postmastershlp OF New
Salem. and held the position for three
years.
Elected to the legislature as a Whig
in 1894, 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 the territories. Lincoln. aft.
err being again returned to the leg.
islature, was on June II. 1856, named
for vice-president at the Republican
nominating convention I'm Philsdel.
phia. Then followed his challenge to
the sever 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-
handing that slavery be forbidden
In the territories, denied tho right Of
congress to interfere with slavery In
the states. The south nov prepared
for secession. Lincoln. elected to the
presidency, denied In his inaugural
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 ! STORY of the conflict was thence
forward a part Of Lipcoln's own pollt.
ical history until his death by the
hand Of an ASSASSIN on April II,
1869
THE martyr president" says ward
Lamon, in his life OF Abraham LIN.
coin. was six feet four inchea nigh,
the length OF his legs being out OF
all proportion to that of his BODY.
When he sat on a chair he seemed to
taller than an average man, msasur.
ing from the chair to the crown OF
his head; but his knees rose hlKn in
front. He weighed about 1870 pounds,
but vas thin through the breas- nar.
row across the shoulders, and had
the general appearance OF a conuump-
tive subject. Standing up, he noop-
Cd ulfnEN1u FCWufawI. ufNNNaa A.w.- H..
usually crossed his long legs OF threw
them over the arms OF the chair. His
head was long and tall from the Dase
Of the brain and the eyebrows hls
forehead high and narrow, inclIning
backward as It rose.
His ears we're large and stoos out;
eyebrows were heavy. iutting forward
over small sunkeE blue eyes; nose
long, large and blunt: chin protesting
far and sharp. curved upward TO meet
a thick lower lip. which hung GOWN
ward; cheeks nabby. the loose skin
falling in folds; a mole on one oneek
and an uncommonly prominent Ad-
ans apple In his throat.
Every feature OF the man-tnW mol.
low eyes, with the dark rings be-
neoth; the long. sallow. ~cadaveroua
face. intersscted by those peculiar
deep lines: his whole air, his walk.
his long and silent reveries. broken
at intervals by sudden and startling
ordinations. as n TO confound an
observer who might suspect the ma.
cure Of his thoughts-showed that ho
yas a man OF SORROWS not OF today or
Of yesterday. but long treasured and
deep. bearing with him continual