The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-10-20
CHAPTER XXI.

Wherein a Remarkable School Of Po-
litIcal Science Begins Its Sessions
In the Rear Of Joshua Speeds Store.
Also at Samson's Fireside Honest
Abe Talks Of the Authority Of the
Law and the Right Of Revolution.
The boy Joe had had golden week
at the home of the Brlmsteads. The
fair Annabel, knowing not the power
that lay In her beauty. had captured
his young heart scarcely fifteen years
of age. He had no interest In her
younger sister. Mary. But Annabel.
with her long skirts and full form and
glowing eyes and gentle dignity. had
stirred him to the depths. When he
left he carried n soul heavy with re-
greet and great resolutions. Not that
he had mentioned the matter TO her or
to any one. II was a thing too sacred
for speech. To God, In his prayers,
he spoke of II, but TO no other.
lie asked to be made and to be
thought worthy. He would have had
the whole world stopped and put to
sleep for term until he was delivered
from the bondage OF his tender youth.
That being impossible, II was for
him a sad, but not hopeless world.
Indeed, he reJolced in his sadness. An
mabel was four years older than he.
II he could make her to know the
depth OF his passion, perhaps she
would wait for him. He sought for
seIf-expression in The Household Book
OF Poetry--a sorrowful aud plous vol
ume. He could find no ladder of
rhyme with an adequate reach. He
endeavored to build one. He wrote
melancholy verses and letters, confess
Ing his passion, to Annabel which
she did not encourage, but which she
always kept and valued for their In
genuous and noble ardor. Some OF
these Anacreontlcs are among the
treasures inherited by her descend
ants. They were n matter OF slight
importance, one would say, but they
mark the beginning OF great career
Immediately after his return TO the
new home In Springfield, the boy
Josiah, set out TO make himself hon
ored OF his ideal. In the effort h.
made himself honored OF many. His
eager brain had soon taken the footlnl
OF manhood.
A remarkable school OF politica
science had begun Its sessions In thu
little Western village of Springfield
The world had never seen the like o
II. Abraham Lincoln, stephen A
Douglas, Il. ID. Baker, o. II. Browning
Jesse b. Thomas. and Josiah LamborI
, IA most unusual array Of talent a
, subsequent history has proved-wer'
, wont to gather around the fireplace II
the rear OF Joshua Speeds store, eve
!, nlngs, TO discuss the issues OF tn,
, time. Samson and his son Joe cam
often TO hear the talk. Douglas looke'
like a dwarf among those long-geare'
men. He was slight and short, belnl
only about five feet tall, but he had
big. round head covered with thick
straight, dark hair, n bulldog look ant
I, voice like thunder. Douglas an
Lincoln were In heNed argumen
, over the admission Of slavery to tn
territories the first night that Samson
aud Joe sat down with them.
1--WE didn't like that little rooster o
n man, he had such high and might
a wey with him and so frankly oppose
"A the principles we believe in. He wa
. an out.and-out pro-slavery man. II
would have every state free 10 regu
a late its domestic institutions, In II
a own way, subject only to the ConstIu
!. ton OF the United States. Llncol
A held that II amounted to saying tina
n one man chose 10 enslave anothe
4 no third party shall be allowed to OF
h ject'
A In the course OF the argument Doug
las alleged that the Wings were th
Il arlstocrats OF the country.
g "That reminds me OF a night whe
n was speaking at Havana" said HoI
est Abe. "a man with RULED shin
n and massive gold watch chain e
d up and charged that the Wings wer
arlstocrats. Douglas In his hroa,
II cloth and fine linen reminds me {
q that man. Fun not going TO answt
5. Douqlas as l answered him. Most {
e the wings | know are my kind {
g. folks. was a poor boy working o
a. Aatboat at eight dollars mont
D. and had only one pair of breeches an
d. they were buckskin. IL you know III
IN nature OF buckskin, you know thI
.. when Il Is wet and dried by the sun
le will shrink and my breeches keI
n shrinking and deserving the sock are
Is OF my legs until several inches {
ID them were bare above my shoe
d Whilst l was growing longer the
le we're growing shorter and so niue
~ tighter that they left blue strea
81 around my legs which can be- seen
le this day. II you call that aI,stocrac
IS l know OF one Wing that Is an arist'
" crat."