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Berry Store (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Chapter 2. Flatboat New Salem election clerk store and mill Kirkham's grammar --Sangamo Journal the Talisman Lincoln's address, March 9, 1832 Black Hawk War Lincoln elected Captain mustered out May 27, 1832 reenlisted in Independent Spy Battalion finally mustered out, June 16, 1832 defeated for the legislature blacksmith or lawyer? the Lincoln Berry store appointed Postmaster, May 7, 1833 national politics The life of Abraham Lincoln, or that part of it which will interest readers for all future time, properly begins in March, 1831, after the winter of the deep snow. According to frontier custom, being then twenty-one years old, he left his father's cabin to make his own fortune in the world. A man named Denton Offutt, one of a class of local traders and speculators usually found about early Western settlements, had probably heard something of young Lincoln's Indiana history, particularly that he had made a voyage on a flatboat from Indi
New Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
he had few chances to pick up scraps of schooling, was beginning to read deeply in that book of human nature, the profound knowledge of which rendered him such immense service in after years. The restlessness and ambition of the village of New Salem was many times multiplied in the restlessness and ambition of Springfield, fifteen or twenty miles away, which, located approximately near the geographical center of Illinois, was already beginning to crave, if not yet to feel, its future destion debate in Congress. The speeches of Clay, Calhoun, and Webster were published in full during the following month, and Mr. Lincoln could not well help reading them and joining in the feelings and comments they provoked. While the town of New Salem was locally dying, the county of Sangamon and the State of Illinois were having what is now called a boom. Other wide-awake newspapers, such as the Missouri Republican and Louisville Journal, abounded in notices of the establishment of new sta
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ssed of ample bodily strength. In frontier life it is not only needed for useful labor of many kinds, but is also called upon to aid in popular amusement. There was a settlement in the neighborhood of New Salem called Clary's Grove, where lived a group of restless, rollicking backwoodsmen with a strong liking for various forms of frontier athletics and rough practical jokes. In the progress of American settlement there has always been a time, whether the frontier was in New England or Pennsylvania or Kentucky, or on the banks of the Mississippi, when the champion wrestler held some fraction of the public consideration accorded to the victor in the Olympic games of Greece. Until Lincoln came, Jack Armstrong was the champion wrestler of Clary's Grove and New Salem, and picturesque stories are told how the neighborhood talk, inflamed by Offutt's fulsome laudation of his clerk, made Jack Armstrong feel that his fame was in danger. Lincoln put off the encounter as long as he could, an
Cincinnati (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
he present the only solution of the problem, and a public meeting was called to discuss the project. The deep snows of the winter of 1830-31 abundantly filled the channels of that stream, and the winter of 1831-32 substantially repeated its swelling floods. Newcomers in that region were therefore warranted in drawing the inference that it might remain navigable for small craft. Public interest on the topic was greatly heightened when one Captain Bogue, commanding a small steamer then at Cincinnati, printed a letter in the Journal of January 26, 1832, saying: I intend to try to ascend the river [Sangamo] immediately on the breaking up of the ice. It was well understood that the chief difficulty would be that the short turns in the channels were liable to be obstructed by a gorge of driftwood and the limbs and trunks of overhanging trees. To provide for this, Captain Bogue's letter added: I should be met at the mouth of the river by ten or twelve men, having axes with long handles
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
he ran as a Whig, given him its almost solid vote for representative, notwithstanding the fact that it was more than two thirds Democratic. The postmastership increased his public consideration and authority, broadened his business experience, and the newspapers he handled provided him an abundance of reading matter on topics of both local and national importance up to the latest dates. Those were stirring times, even on the frontier. The Sangamo Journal of December 30, 1832, printed Jackson's nullification proclamation. The same paper, of March 9, 1833, contained an editorial on Clay's compromise, and that of the 16th had a notice of the great nullification debate in Congress. The speeches of Clay, Calhoun, and Webster were published in full during the following month, and Mr. Lincoln could not well help reading them and joining in the feelings and comments they provoked. While the town of New Salem was locally dying, the county of Sangamon and the State of Illinois were
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
lves to Denton Offutt to take a flatboat from Beardstown, Illinois [on the Illinois River], to New Orleans; and for that puranks had turned back from St. Louis) continued on foot to Illinois, Johnston remaining at the family home, which had meanwhich, located approximately near the geographical center of Illinois, was already beginning to crave, if not yet to feel, its ree weeks. The tide of immigration which was pouring into Illinois is illustrated in a tabular statement on the commerce of olitical activity in the East, and voters in the new State of Illinois were fired with an equal party zeal. During the montcollegian in the twenties. His migration from Indiana to Illinois and his two voyages to New Orleans had given him a glimpst to elapse before the first railroad train was to run in Illinois. One other motive probably had its influence. He tellem was locally dying, the county of Sangamon and the State of Illinois were having what is now called a boom. Other wide-aw
St. Louis (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
and partly at Beardstown, the boat safely made the remainder of her voyage to New Orleans; and, returning by steamer to St. Louis, Lincoln and Johnston (Hanks had turned back from St. Louis) continued on foot to Illinois, Johnston remaining at the fSt. Louis) continued on foot to Illinois, Johnston remaining at the family home, which had meanwhile been removed from Macon to Coles County, and Lincoln going to his employer and friends at New Salem. This was in July or August, 1831. Neither Offutt nor his goods had yet arrived, and during his waiting he had a ch or twelve men, having axes with long handles under the direction of some experienced man. I shall deliver freight from St. Louis at the landing on the Sangamo River opposite the town of Springfield for thirty-seven and a half cents per hundred pounhe splendid upper-cabin steamer Talisman would leave for Springfield, and the paper of March I announced her arrival at St. Louis on the 22d of February with a full cargo. In due time the citizen committee appointed by the public meeting met the Ta
Springfield (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
for that purpose were to join him-Offutt-at Springfield, Illinois, so soon as the snow should go off. When it rance into Sangamon County. They found Offutt at Springfield, but learned from him that he had failed in getti on the Sangamon River, seven miles northwest of Springfield, which boat they took to New Orleans, substantiales multiplied in the restlessness and ambition of Springfield, fifteen or twenty miles away, which, located app the Sangamon River, flowing within five miles of Springfield and emptying itself into the Illinois ten or fiftlanding on the Sangamo River opposite the town of Springfield for thirty-seven and a half cents per hundred poundid upper-cabin steamer Talisman would leave for Springfield, and the paper of March I announced her arrival a, and the Journal proclaimed with exultation that Springfield could no longer be considered an inland town. the Sylph, would establish regular trips between Springfield and Beardstown, but she never came. The freshets
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
amed Denton Offutt, one of a class of local traders and speculators usually found about early Western settlements, had probably heard something of young Lincoln's Indiana history, particularly that he had made a voyage on a flatboat from Indiana to New Orleans, and that he was strong, active, honest, and generally, as would be exprIndiana to New Orleans, and that he was strong, active, honest, and generally, as would be expressed. in Western phrase, a smart young fellow. He was therefore just the sort of man Offutt needed for one of his trading enterprises, and Mr. Lincoln himself relates somewhat in detail how Offutt engaged him and the beginning of the venture: Abraham, together with his stepmother's son, John D. Johnston, and John Hanks, ason cogently. The simple, manly style of his printed address fully equals in literary ability that of the average collegian in the twenties. His migration from Indiana to Illinois and his two voyages to New Orleans had given him a glimpse of the outside world. His natural logic readily grasped the significance of the railroad a
Macon county (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
arly that he had made a voyage on a flatboat from Indiana to New Orleans, and that he was strong, active, honest, and generally, as would be expressed. in Western phrase, a smart young fellow. He was therefore just the sort of man Offutt needed for one of his trading enterprises, and Mr. Lincoln himself relates somewhat in detail how Offutt engaged him and the beginning of the venture: Abraham, together with his stepmother's son, John D. Johnston, and John Hanks, yet residing in Macon County, hired themselves to Denton Offutt to take a flatboat from Beardstown, Illinois [on the Illinois River], to New Orleans; and for that purpose were to join him-Offutt-at Springfield, Illinois, so soon as the snow should go off. When it did go off, which was about the first of March, 1831, the county was so, flooded as to make traveling by land impracticable, to obviate which difficulty they purchased a large canoe, and came down the Sangamon River in it. This is the time and the manner of
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