Identifier: statesmen00inbroo (find matches)
Title: Statesmen
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
Subjects: Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886 Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Statesmen
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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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its iron into him then and there. He lived several years at New Salem, one of those little mushroom villages that rise and fall in the un-easy movement of a new population, and his succeeding years were homeless, half the time working and half the time idling, and without any special aim in life except to gain food and shelter. He was a pilot on a steamboat, clerk in a store or a mill, and drifting about from time to time, always in pursuit of something better. Somehow, tending a country store suited him best; it gave him leisure to read, study, and meditate. As a wrestler and an athlete, the tall, gaunt young Kentuckian soon acquired great fame, and in an encounter with a party of overgrown young men of Clarys Grove, a settlement not far from New Salem, he gave them a test of his quality. The entire gang were ready to break in and interrupt a wrestling-bout between him-self and one Jack Armstrong, when his antag-onist, resorting to foul play, so roused the wrath of Lincoln that, putting forth all his
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN 191 giant strength, he Hung Armstrong in the air, the legs of the champion of the Clarys Grove boys whirling madly around his head. At this astounding performance the entire party made a dead set against the new-comer, who was calmly waiting their onset, when the vanquished cham-pion chivalrously demanded a truce. Shaking Lincoln by the hand, he said : Boys, Abe Lin-coln is the best fellow that ever broke into this settlement. He shall be one of us. Lincoln by general consent became the peacemaker and the arbitrator of all the petty quarrels of the neighborhood ; shunning vulgar brawls himself, he attempted to keep others out of them, and when debate around the door of the cross-roads store grew too animated and blows came in to settle disputes, the terrific windmill of Lincolns long arms invariably brought peace. One of the luxuries of that time with him was a subscription to the Louisville Courier, then edited by that famous Whig, George D. Pren-tice, and to secure the paper Lincoln d

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