The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-10-28

: Wherein Remarkable School Of Pa
lltIcaI Science Begins Its Session
In the Roar Of Joshua Speeds Store
Also at Samson's Flreside Homes
Abe Talks Of the Authority Of tn
Law and the Right of Revolution.
The boy Joe had had golden weel
at the home of the Brimsteads. The
fair Anna5al, 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 a soul heavy with re-
greet and great resolutions. Not that
he had mentioned the matter to her or
to any one. 1t was thing too sacred
for speech. To God, in his prayers,
he spoke of it, but to no other.
He 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, 1t was for
him a sad, but not hopeless world.
Indeed, he rejoiced In his sadness. An
mabel was four years older than he.
If he could make her to know the
depth of his passion, perhaps she
would wait for him. He sought for
self-expression In The Household Book
of Poetry--a sorrowful and pious 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 Anacreontics are among the
treasures Inherited by her descend
ants. They were matter of slight |
Importance, one would say, but they |
mark the beginning of a great career. |
Immediately after his return to the |
new home In Springfield, the boy, |
Josiah, set out to make himself hon
made himself honored of many. His
eager brain had soon taken the footing
of manhood.
A remarkable school Of political
science had begun Its sessions In the
little Western village of Springfield.
The world had never seen the like of
It. Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A.
Douglas, E. d. Baker, o. H. Browning,
Jesse B. Thomas, and Josiah Lamborn
IA most unusual array of talent as
subsequent history has proved-were
won't to gather around the fireplace In
he rear of Joshua Speeds store, eve
lings, to discuss the issues of the /
ime. Samson and his son Joe came |
'ften to hear the talk. Douglas looked | /
Ike a dwarf among those long-geared :
nen. He was slight and short, being {
My about five feet tall, but he had q c
ig, round head covered with thick,
traight, dark hair, bulldog look and d
voice like thunder. Douglas and n
lincoln were in heaed argument
yer the admission of slavery to the :
erritories the first night that Samson !
nd Joe sat down with them. =
1--WE didn't like that little rooster of n
man, he had such high and mighty :
ay with him and so frankly opposed
lie principles we believe In. He was r.
n out-and-out pro-slavery man. He
ould have every state free to regu- +,
tie its domestic institutions. In its
vn way, subject only to the Constitu- 7.
on of the United States. Lincoln :.
I'D that Ii amounted to saying that 10
one man chose to enslave another -
} third party shall be allowed to OBJ :,
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In the course of the argument Doug TT
S alleged that the Wings were the nc
istocrats of the country. sh
THAT reminds me of a night when wi
was speaking at Havana said Hon. he
| Abe. "a man with a RULED shirt of
massive gold watch chain got III
and charged that the Wings were tr,
istocrats- Douglas In his broad an
til and fine linen reminds me of COZ
1t man. I'm not going to answer
uglas as l answered him. Most of lis
, Wings l know are my kind of
ks. ! was a poor boy working on be.
flatboat at eight dollars a month am
had only one pair of breeches and |
y were buckskin. II you know the yo,
lure of buckskin, you know that ad,
en- 1t is wet and dried by the sun II car
Il shrink and my breeches kept the
mixing and deserving the sock area fen
my legs until several inches of tim
m were bare above my shoes. "
INST was growing longer they boy
re growing shorter and so much mes
tier that they left blue streak 80
ind my legs which can bcs seen TO cha
day. II you call that aristocracy Hor
now of one Whig that is an aristo- CON
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