The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln
The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln
Francis G Francis Grant Blair
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He then became a clerk in a store which his employer Offntt started at Xew Salem on the Sangamon near the present town of Petersburg. Offutt knew Lincoln's great strength and was constantly bragging about how easily Abe could whip any fellow in the town. We shall see how this sot Abe into trouble. LIFE AT NEW SALEM. INicholay and Hay. ] Public opinion at New Salem was formed by a crowd of ruffianly young fellows v. -ho were called the "Clary's Grove Boys. " Once or twice a v>'eek thev (Tpscende...d rpon the village and passed the day in drinking, fighting, and brutal horse-play. If a stranger appeared in the place, he was likely to suffer a rude initiation into the social life of New Salem at the hands oi these jovial savages. Sometimes he was nailed un in a hogshead and rolled down hill; sometimes he was insulted into a fight and then mauled black and blue: for, despite their pretensions to chivalry they had no scruples about fair play or any such superstitions of civilization. At first they did not seem inclined to m-olest young Lincoln.
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