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Title: McClure's magazine
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949
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Publisher: New York : S.S. McClure
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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f the war, that of BadAxe on August 2d, in which the whitesfinally massacred most of the Indian band,Lincolns company was disbanded at White-water, Wisconsin, and he and his friendsstarted for home. The volunteers in re-turning, in almost every case, suffered much * Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Noah Brooks. from hunger. Mr. Durly, of Hennepin,Illinois, who walked home from Rock Isl-and, says all he had to eat on the journeywas meal and water baked in rolls of barklaid by the fire. Lincoln was little betteroff. The night before his company startedfrom Whitewater he and one of his mess-mates had their horses stolen; and, except-ing when their more fortunate companionsgave them a lift, they walked as far asPeoria, Illinois, where they bought a canoe,and paddled down the Illinois River to Ha-vana. Here they sold the canoe, andwalked across the country to New Salem. ELECTIONEERING FOR THE GENERALASSEMBLY. Lincoln arrived only a few days beforethe election, and at once plunged into 1
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VIICVV OK THE SANGAMON RIVER NEAR NEW SALEM. The town lay along the ridge marked by the star. 136 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. electioneering. He ran as an avowedClay man, and the county was stifflyDemocratic. However, in those days po-litical contests were almost purely per-sonal. If the candidate was liked he wasvoted for irrespective of principles. AroundNew Salem the population turned in andhelped Lincoln almost to a man. TheDemocrats of New Salem worked for Lin-coln out of their personal regard for him,said Stephen T. Logan, a young lawyer ofSpringfield, who made Lincolns acquaint-ance in the campaign. He was as stiffas a man could be in his Whig doctrines.They did this for him simply because hewas popular—because he was Lincoln. It was the custom for the candidates toappear at every gathering which broughtthe people out, and, if they had a chance, tomake speeches. Then, as now, the farm-ers gathered at the county-seat or at thelargest town within their reach on Satur-day afternoons, to di

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