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Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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dwin D. Baker, from Illinois, also wanted the office. Fortunately forthemselves and for the countrj^ neither of them received the appoint-ment. Mr. Lincoln visited New York and Boston. He gave an addressat Worcester, Mass., which was much liked by those who heard it.He journeyed to Niagara. He beheld the swirling stream above thefalls, the cataract, and the fury of the current below. A Yankeethought it might be a good place to wash sheep. Mr. Lincoln was notthinking about washing sheep, or of setting Niagara to turning mill-wheels, but wondered where all the water came from. The most com-fortable route home was by steamboat down the Ohio River and upthe Illinois. The water was low, and the boat grounded on a bar. Thefiremen stuffed wood under the boilers, and black clouds of smoke rolledout from the chimneys. Louder the puffing of the steam, but the boatwas hard and fast upon the sand. Get out those empty barrels! theorder of the captain. The crew pitched a lot of empty casks into the
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■TOTIN QIIINCY ADAMS. (From a p.iiiUiiig liy (i. I. A. Hcaly, in the Corcoran (iallory, WMsliington.) I SEVEN YEARS OF ACTIVE LIFE. 131 river and fastened them witli ropes under the bow of the boat, thus lift-ing it till clear of the obstruction. A thought came to the man wholooked do\Yn upon the operation from the deck of the steamer. Quitelikely he recalled the days ^vhen he took the Talisman over the sand-bars of the Sangamon. AVhy not get up a contrivance—a flexible air-chamber, to be attached to the hull of the boat i It coukl be pumpedfull of air whenever the vessel grounded, and so enable it to glide over.He thought about it all the way to Springfield; set Walter Davis, acarpenter, to work making amodel, which he sent to thePatent Office, and Ieceived apatent for his invention ; but,like most of the patents issued,it came to nothing. Zachary Taylor, who wonthe battle of Buena Vista inthe war with Mexico, had beenelected President. During thecampaign Mr. Lincoln mademany spe

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