Public Lands. The Slave Case of Antonio Pacheco. Lincoln's Amendment to Gott's Resolution. Favors a Bill to Abolish the Franking Privilege. Ten Years at Home. A Member of the National Whig Convention of 1848 The Illinois Campaign of 1854. Debate with Douglas in 1854.. Declines Election to the United States Senate, in favor of Trumbull. The Philadelphia North American on Almost a Duel. The Rail-Splitter. A Thrilling Episode in his History Senator Benjamin's Opinion of... Extracts from Speeches of Lincoln and Douglas....... Extract from his Speech at Leavenworth. His Personal Appearance. His Personal Habits. Organization at the "Wigwam" The Platform of the Republican Party.. The Ballots.. The Nomination. PART FOURTH. THE CONVENTION AND ITS NOMINATIONS. Ratification by the People.. Unanimous Commendations of the Press. Mr. Lincoln at Home.. • • Visit of the Committee to Notify him of his Nomination. Mrs. Lincoln. A Campaign Song. at Quincy, October 13, 1858. in Reply to Mr. Douglas, at Alton, October 15, 1858 at Columbus, Ohio, September, 1859. at Cincinnati, Ohio, September, 1859 at the Cooper Institute, New-York, February 27, 1860 Sketch of the life of Hon. HANNIBAL HAMLIN, Republican Candidate for Letters of Acceptance. 349 LIFE AND SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. PART FIRST. EARLY HISTORY. ABRAHAM LINCOLN was born February 12, 1809, then in Hardin, now in the recently formed county of Larue, Kentucky. His father, Thomas, and grandfather, Abraham, were born in Rockingham county, Virginia, whither their ancestors had come from Berks county, Pennsylvania. His lineage has been traced no farther back than this. The family were originally quakers, though in later times they have fallen away from the peculiar habits of that people. The grandfather, Abraham, had four brothers; Isaac, Jacob. John, and Thomas. So far as known, the descendants of Jacob and John are still in Virginia. Isaac went to a place near where Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, join, and his descendants are in that region. Thomas came to Kentucky, and, after many years, died there, whence his descendants went to Missouri. Abraham, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came to Kentucky and was killed by Indians, about the year 1784. He left a widow, three sons, and two daughters. The eldest son, Mordecai, remained in Kentucky till late in life, when he removed to Hancock county, Illinois, where, soon after, he died, and where several of his descendants still reside. The second son, Joseph, removed at an early day to a place on Blue river, now within Harrison county, Indiana, but no recent information of him or his family has been obtained. The eldest sister, Mary, married Ralph Crume, and some of her descendants are now known to be in Breckenridge county, Kentucky. The second sister, Nancy, married Wm. Brumfield, and her family are not known to have left Kentucky, but there is no recent information from them. Thomas, the youngest son, and father of the present subject, by the early death of his father, and very narrow circumstances of his mother, even in childhood, was a wandering, laboring boy, and grew up literally without education. He never did more in the way of writing, than to bunglingly sign his own name. Before he was grown, he passed one year as a hired hand with his Uncle Isaac, on Wataga, a branch of the Holston river. Getting back into Kentucky, and having reached his twenty-eighth year, he married Nancy Hanks, mother of the present subject, in the year 1806. She was also born in Virginia, and relatives of hers, of the name of Hanks, and of other names, now reside in Coles, Macon, and Adams counties, Illinois, and also in Iowa. |
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