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Title: Popular history of the civil war
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Cheney, C. Emma (Clara Emma)
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Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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President Buchanan gladly left the chairof State, where he had sat so uneasily; but one would thinkthat Mr. Lincoln would shrink from occupying it. The out-look was indeed a stormy one. Just as the blacksmith makes iron tough and strong byheat and heavy blows, so Abraham Lincolns character hadbeen developed by poverty and hardships. He was born in Kentucky. His father was very poor, andthe boy had never even heard of luxuries. He had scarcelythe necessities of life, but he was never known to complainof his hard lot: perhaps he never thought about his ownwants at all. He used to work all day, and at night he wouldread borrowed books by firelight. W1ien his name camebefore the nation as a candidate for its highest honor, he wascalled the Rail-splitter. This was because he helped hisfather to split the rails with which to fence the farm afterthe family removed to Illinois. But neither Mr. Lincoln nor his party was ashamed of thename, or of the reason for it. His whole life had been free
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LINCOLN AS A RAIL-SPLITTER. i86i.) A Spark in a Pozvdcr-Magazine. 37 from vice. He even shunned the appearance of evil, as,step by step, he rose through his own industry to the highestplace that an American can desire. Just now it seemedprovidential that such a man should be chosen to fill thisoffice, when wisdom and firmness and patience were so muchneeded to untangle the political snarl. As you already know, South Carolina had seceded fromthe Union in December, i860, soon after Mr. Lincoln was

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