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Title: The story of young Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Whipple, Wayne, 1856-1942
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia : Henry Altemus Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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War, but thisstatement is not founded on fact, for youngLieutenant Davis was absent on a furlough andcould not have encountered the tall captain fromthe Sangamon then, as many would like to be-lieve. Lincoln always referred to the Black HawkWar as a humorous adventure. He made afimny speech in Congress describing some of hisexperiences in this campaign in which he didnot take part in a battle, nor did he even catchsight of a hostile Indian. AGAIN A RIVER PILOT Abe was still out of work. Just before he en-listed he piloted the Talisman, a steamboatwhich had come up the Sangamon on a trialtrip, in which the speed of the boat averagedfour miles an hour. At that time the wildest ex-citement prevailed. The coming of the Talis-man up their little river was hailed with granddemonstrations and much speech-making.Every one expected the Government to spendmillions of dollars to make the Sangamon navi-gable, and even New Salem (which is not now tobe found on the map) was to become a flourish-130
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YOU SHANT HURT THIS POOR OLD INDIAN. Abraham Lincoln ing city, in the hopeful imaginings of its fewinhabitants. Lincoln, being a candidate, natu-rally ^Hook the fever, and shared the deliriumthat prevailed. He could hardly have doneotherwise, even if he had been so disposed. Thiswas before the days of railroads, and the com-merce and prosperity of the country dependedon making the smaller streams navigable. Lin-coln received forty dollars, however, for his serv-ices as pilot. The Talisman, instead of estab-lishing a river connection with the MississippiRiver cities, never came back. She was burnedat the wharf in St. Louis, and the navigation ofthe poor little Sangamon, which was only a shal-low creek, was soon forgotten. Lincolns only defeat by a dikect vote When Abe returned from the war he had nosteady employment. On this account, espe-cially, he must have been deeply disappointed tobe defeated in the election which took placewithin two weeks after his arrival. His patriot-ism had b

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