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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Slaves Slavery
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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days are thought to be among the neces-saries of life, but which Nancy Lincoln had been com-pelled to do without. By what magic Thomas Lincolnhad persuaded this thrifty and forehanded widow toleave her home in Kentucky and migrate tc the comfort-less wilderness of Indiana, we can only guess. But Thomaswas of a genial and even jovial disposition, and he hadallured the good woman to come and save his motherlessbairns from utter destitution and neglect. The new Mrs. Lincoln, if she was disappointed in thehome she found in Indiana, never showed her disappoint-ment to her step-children. She took hold of the dutiesand labors of the day with a cheerful readiness that waslong and gratefully remembered by her step-son, at least*They were good friends at once. Of him she said, yearsafter : He never gave me a cross word or look, and neverrefused, in fact or appearance, to do any thing I requestedof him. Of her he said : She was a noble woman,affectionate, good, and kind, rather above the average
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THE BACKWOODS HOME. 29 woman, as I remember women in those days. Mrs.Lincoln brought with her three children by her first mar-riage, John, Sarah, and Matilda Johnston, whose ageswere not far from those of the three children found in theLincoln homestead. The log-cabin was full to overflow-ing. The three boys, Abraham Lincoln, John Johnston,and Dennis Hanks, were sent to the loft over the cabin tosleep. They climbed up a rude ladder built against theinner side of the log-house : and their bed, a mere sack ofdry corn-husks, was so narrow, that when one turned over,all three turned. Nevertheless, there was an abundanceof covering for the children, all. The new mother had atonce insisted that the openings in the cabin should befilled with glass and sashes instead of loosely hung sheetsof muslin. The rickety frame, covered with split shakes,that had served as a door, with its clumsy wooden hasp,was taken away, and a battened door of matched boards,with a wooden latch of domestic make, repl

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