IT is a far cry from a Kentucky cabin to the White
House at Washington, from the estate of a poor white
child in the south to that of CI ief Magistrate of the
United States of America. Yet it is our task to show
how that distance was spanned in the life of Abraham
Lincoln, and the story of it should be of the highest in-
terest to every American youth.
We are probably not sufficiently removed from the
times of Abraham Lincoln to estimate him in his full
proportions. The greater part of the literature that has
been written concerning him, that is not absolutely
ephemeral, has been written for a people who reverenced
him, and who would brook no other than a reverent hand-
ling of the object of their devotion. Such jealousy, how-
ever, was needless, for loving hands have written intel-
ligently and judicially the story of his life, and of the
unfolding of his character. They have written with the
ardor of personal friendship and almost in the heat of the
exciting days when Lincoln stood as their champion and
contended for the National , Union to which they were
devoted.
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