The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Young Adult (18-35)Transcript
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The spring of 18 32 brought a new turn in Lincoln's career. The year had been one of great advancement in many respects. He had made new and valuable acquaintances, read many books, mastered the grammar of his own tongue. Won a multitude of friends. Those who could appreciate intelligence and character, respected him and those whose highest ideas of a man related to his physical prowess were devoted to him. Everyone trusted him. He was a judge arbitrator, referee authority in all disputes, games and matches whether of man flesh or horse flesh. He was the peacemaker in all quarrels. He was everybody's friend, the best natured, most sensible, best informed, most modest, unassuming, kindest, gentlest, roughest, strongest, best young fellow in all New Salem or the region about. But Mr Off's trading enterprises ended disastrously. In the year of 18 32 the store was closed, the mill was shut down and Lincoln was out of business at the very moment, however, that he found himself adrift. Illinois was filled with excitement over the Black Hawk War. The center of alarm was in the Rock Valley in the northern part of the state which had been formerly the home of the sack tribe of Indians discontented with their life on the reservation west of the Mississippi to which they had been removed, the sacks with several other tribes resolved to recover their old hunting grounds. The war life cheek black hawk was at the head of the revolt. And his march toward the Rock River was signalized by a number of massacres. Governor Reynolds of Illinois issued a proclamation calling for volunteers to aid the regular troops in the emergency. Lincoln was one of the first to answer the call. The brave Clay Grove boys also coming promptly to the rescue. The volunteers gathered writes Mr Arnold at Rushville in Schuller County, at which place they were to be organized and elected officers. Lincoln was a candidate for the place of captain and in opposition of him was one William Kirkpatrick. The mode of election was novel by agreement. Each candidate walked off to some distance and took position by himself. The men were then to form and those who voted for Kirkpatrick were to range on a line with their candidates when the lines were formed. Lincoln's was three times as long as that of Kirkpatrick. And so Lincoln was declared elected, speaking of this affair, when president, he said that he was more gratified with this than his first success than with any other election in his life. Neither Lincoln nor his company was in any engagement during the campaign, but there was plenty of hardships and fatigue and some incidents occurred to illustrate his courage and power over men.