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Title: From pioneer home to the White House : life of Abraham Lincoln: boyhood, youth, manhood, assassination, death
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898 Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Boston : J.H. Earle
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ded his utmost energies upon its unconstitutionalfeatures, although others could not discover them. Mr.Lincoln arose and said : — Mr. Speaker, the attack of the member from Wabashupon the unconstitutionality of this measure remindsme of an old friend of mine. He is a peculiar-lookingold fellow, with shaggy, overhanging eyebrows, and apair of spectacles under them. (Here every memberturned to the man from Wabash, and recognizeda personal description.) One morning, just after theold man got up, he imagined he saw a squirrel on atree near his house. So he took down his rifle, andfired at the squirrel, but the squirrel paid no attentionto the shot. He loaded and fired again and again,until, at the thirteenth shot, he set down his gunimpatiently, and said to his boy, who was looking on,Boy, theres something wrong about this rifle. Riflesall right, I know tis, responded the boy, but wheresyour squirrel ? Dont you see him, humped up abouthalf-way up the tree ? inquired the old man, peering
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LAURELS WON. 277 over his spectacles, and getting mystified. No, Idont, responded the boy ; and then turning and look-ing into his fathers face, he exclaimed, I see yoursquirrel. Youve been firing at a louse on your eye-brow ! The House was convulsed with laughter, and themember from Wabash dropped his ■unconstitutionaldodge. Mr. Lincoln grew rapidly in public favor as a lawyer,and within ten years after he left his log-cabin home,in Macon County, citizens of Springfield would pointhim out to strangers on the street, and say : One ofthe ablest lawyers in Illinois. His partnership with Mr. Stuart terminated in1840, and he soon after associated himself with JudgeS. T. Logan. He married Miss Mary Todd, daughterof Honorable Robert S. Todd of Lexington, Kentucky,in 1842, when he was thirty-three years of age.The fruits of this marriage were four sons, viz.Robert, Edwards, William, and Thomas. Edwardsdied in infancy; William died at the age of twelve yearsin Washington ; Thomas died in Il

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