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The story of Lincoln, revealing how one American, by his own honest efforts, rose from the most humble beginning to the most high station of honor and worth, has inspired millions and will inspire millions more. The log cabin in which he was born, the ax with which he split th...
In 1847, when he took his seat in the thirtieth Congress, he saw there the last of the giants of the old days,--Webster, Calhoun, Clay and old John Quincy Adams, dying in his se...
1. Chapter 1The story of Lincoln, revealing how one American, by his own honest efforts, rose from the most humble beginning to the most high station of honor and worth, has inspired millio...
3. Chapter 3Down in Springfield, Lincoln was waiting, and when he got the news, he said, "There is a little woman down on Eighth Street who will be glad to hear this news," and he strode aw...
4. Chapter 4Then the President began to contemplate emancipation, but kept his purposes to himself; kept his secret so well that even after he had determined upon emancipation and was being...