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Title: The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc.
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Lincoln History Society
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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ife, to all their neighbors and friends, is still pointed out.Buckthorne valley held many recollections dear to them all,but to no one of the company was the place dearer than toAbraham. It is certain that he felt the parting keenly, andthat he never forgot his years in the Hoosier State. One ofthe most touching experiences he relates in all his publishedletters is his emotion at visiting his old Indiana home four-teen years after he had left it. So strongly was he moved bythe scenes of his first conscious sorrows, efforts, joys, am-bitions, that he put into verse the feelings they awakened. While he never attempted to conceal the poverty and hard-ship of these days, and would speak humorously of thepretty pinching times he experienced, he never regardedhis life at this time as mean or pitiable. Frequently he talkedto his friends in later days of his boyhood, and always withapparent pleasure. Mr. Lincoln told this story (of hisyouth), says Leonard Swett, as the story of a happy child-
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STARTS OUT FOR HIMSELF 47 hood. There was nothing sad or pinched, and nothing ofwant, and no allusion to want in any part of it. His own de-scription of his youth was that of a happy, joyous boyhood.It was told with mirth and glee, and illustrated by pointedanecdotes, often interrupted by his jocund laugh. And he was right. There was nothing ignoble or mean inthis Indiana pioneer life. It was rude, but only with therudeness which the ambitious are willing to endure in orderto push on to a better condition than they otherwise couldknow. These people did not accept their hardships apatheti-cally. They did not regard them as permanent. They wereonly the temporary deprivations necessary in order to accom-plish what they had come into the country to do. For thisreason they endured hopefully all that was hard. It is worthnotice, too,that therewas nothing belittling in their life; therewas no pauperism, no shirking. Each family provided forits own simple wants, and had the conscious dignity

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