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Excerpt from A Republican Manual for the Campaign: Facts for the People; The Whole Argument in One Book
Abraham lincoln is a native 'of Hardin county, Kentucky. He was born' on] the 12th day of February, 1808. His parents were both from Virginia, and were certainly not of the first families. His paternal grand father, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham county, Virginia, to Kentucky, about 1781 or 1782, where a year or two later he was killed by Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, while he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ances tors, who were respectable members of the Society of Friends, went to Virginia from Berks county, Pennsylvania. Descendants of the same stock still reside in the eastern part of that State.
Mr. Lincoln's father at the death of his father was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education, He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in 1816. The family reached theirnew home about the time the State was admitted into the Union. The region in which they settled was rude and wild, and they endured for some years the hard exporia ence of a frontier life, in which the struggle with nature for existence and seen: rity is to be maintained only by constant vigilance. Bears, wolves, and other wild animals still infested the woods, and young-lincoln acquired more skill in the use of the rifle than knowledge of books. There were institutions. Here and there known by the flattering denomination of schools, but' no qualification was required of a teacher beyond readin', writin', and as the ~ver. Nacular phrase ran, as far as the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard, and regarded with an awe suited to so mysterious a character.
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Excerpt from A Republican Manual for the Campaign: Facts for the People; The Whole Argument in One Book
Abraham lincoln is a native 'of Hardin county, Kentucky. He was born' on] the 12th day of February, 1808. His parents were both from Virginia, and were certainly not of the first families. His paternal grand father, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham county, Virginia, to Kentucky, about 1781 or 1782, where a year or two later he was killed by Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, while he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ances tors, who were respectable members of the Society of Friends, went to Virginia from Berks county, Pennsylvania. Descendants of the same stock still reside in the eastern part of that State.
Mr. Lincoln's father at the death of his father was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education, He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in 1816. The family reached theirnew home about the time the State was admitted into the Union. The region in which they settled was rude and wild, and they endured for some years the hard exporia ence of a frontier life, in which the struggle with nature for existence and seen: rity is to be maintained only by constant vigilance. Bears, wolves, and other wild animals still infested the woods, and young-lincoln acquired more skill in the use of the rifle than knowledge of books. There were institutions. Here and there known by the flattering denomination of schools, but' no qualification was required of a teacher beyond readin', writin', and as the ~ver. Nacular phrase ran, as far as the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard, and regarded with an awe suited to so mysterious a character.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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