...irations… Only when the family had “moved” into the malarious backwoods of Indiana, the mother had died, and a stepmother, a woman of thrift and energ... ...ashington. To the town constable’s he went to read the Revised Statutes of Indiana. Every printed page that fell into his hands he would greedily devo... ...ural antagonist. As very young men they had come to Illinois, Lincoln from Indiana, Douglas from Vermont, and had grown up together in public life, Do... ... Abraham Lincoln: V ol One similar to those he had told and enjoyed in the Indiana settlement and at New Salem. His wants remained as mod- est as they... ...1856, those that were classed as “doubtful,”—New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, or Illinois in the place of either New Jersey or Indiana. The most... ... between Dr. Felix and myself relative to you. The Dr. overtook me between Rushville and Beardstown. He, after learning that I had lived at Springfiel...

...ncoln: V ol Two VERSES WRITTEN BY LINCOLN AFTER A VISIT TO HIS OLD HOME IN INDIANA- (A FRAGMENT). [In December , 1847, when Lincoln was stumping for C... .... [In December , 1847, when Lincoln was stumping for Clay, he crossed into Indiana and revisited his old home. He writes: “That part of the country is... ...t Wisconsin should be obliged by having it reduced. But the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. C. B. Smith], the chairman of the Committee on Territo- ries, ... ..., and enhancing the price of the sections reserved, and the gentleman from Indiana took ground against that policy. He did not make any special argume... ...t. He rose simply to protest against the doctrine which the gentleman from Indiana had avowed in the course of what he [Mr. Lin- coln] could not but c... ...g since been beaten out I have gone to work again. As I do not practice in Rushville, I to-day open a corre- spondence with Henry E. Dummer, Esq., of ...