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Title: When Lincoln kept store
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sousley, Clarence
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: (Chicago) : (Dry Goods Reporter)
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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ble depth andthe flat boat came on. I saw it coming in the mist as if it were the intention of thepilot to float right over the dam by the aid of the high waterand swift current. But lo! He had miscalculated. I saw the flat boat come upunder the full speed of the current and its nose run out overthe dam and up into the air. Then it stopped, with the stern considerably sunken andtaking in water. I saw the villagers of New Salem running toward the river,anxious to lend aid. I saw them help unload the boat andcarry the cargo to safety. Then someone brought an auger and Abe Lincoln bored a WHEN LINCOLN KEPT STORE hole in the front part of the boat that was up in the air;made a plug to fit it, and the citizens of New Salem helped himtilt the boat up from the stern so the water would run out.Then they plugged the hole and the boat was pushed over thedam, to be again reloaded for its trip to New Orleans. Yes, said Mr. Nance, thats how Abe Lincoln first gotacquainted with the New Salem folks.
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Springtime in New Salem, 1829-35 And then I wondered. Some people refer to things that cometo us as the work of Destiny. But I would prefer to call thesethings accidents. And I wondered. I wondered if that flat boat loaded withits provisions for the South, with Abraham Lincoln aboard,had negotiated that dam and passed on by the village of NewSalem, located on the blufif above—if this accident had notgiven Abraham Lincoln the opportunity to become acquaintedwith these whole-souled pioneers from his native state, wouldhe have come back from his flat boat trip to locate in this 6, WHEN LINCOLN KEPT STORE village, or would he have gone to some other larger town andmore progressive looking? And, if he had not come back to New Salem to make it hishome, what then? If he had located in some other larger, moreprogressive, active business town, instead of returning to NewSalem, would he have become President? I dont know. But there upon the brink of the SangamonRiver, overlooking the locationwhenlincolnkepts00sous

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