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Title: The true Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slaves Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia London : J.B. Lippincott
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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they removed,and made sufficient of rails to fence ten acres of ground,fenced and broke the ground, and raised a crop of sowncorn upon it in the same year. The sons-in-law of his step-mother referred to wereDennis Hanks and Levi Hall, who had married Sarahand Matilda, Lincolns step-sisters. Hanks was a son ofthe Joseph Hanks with whom Thomas Lincoln learnedthe carpenters trade in Kentucky. Another son, JohnHanks, was a member of the family, and it was he whoappeared at the State convention at Decatur, May 9,i860, bearing two weather-worn fence-rails decoratedwith streamers and a banner inscribed to the effect thatthey were from the identical lot of three thousand railswhich Lincoln had cut on the Sangamon River in 1830.This dramatic scene was devised by Richard J. Oglesby,afterwards Governor and United States Senator, andone of Lincolns most ardent admirers and faithful sup-porters. Little did Lincoln dream when he was splittingrails in the walnut woods with John Hanks that he and 26
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THE MAN AND HIS KINDRED his companion would appear in a drama of nationalinterest with samples of their handiwork to electrify thecountry with enthusiasm and confer upon the long-legged farmer boy the sobriquet of The Illinois Rail-Splitter. Delegates had been elected to the second NationalRepublican Convention to be held at Chicago a weeklater, when Mr. Oglesby arose and announced in aserious and mysterious manner that an old citizen ofMacon County had something to present to the Conven-tion. Then, with great dramatic effect, John Hanksentered, bearing the relics which were to become thesymbols of the National Convention. The assembly wastransformed into a tumult, and Lincoln was brought tothe platform, where, when order could be restored, hesaid,— Gentlemen: I suppose you want to know somethingabout those things. Well, the truth is, John Hanks andI did make rails in the Sangamon bottom. I dont knowwhether we made those rails or not; fact is, I dontthink they are a credit to the ma

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