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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1921)
F M ,',5' BED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF ffmoamE ASTOH5fOFUIEBDIU)EPSyDEH0CRACr IHVINfif BACHELLER eroj2mr&fr wm? oyzAj CHAPTER XVI Continued. 16 "lie tins not yet accomplished intich In tho legislature. I don't think Hint lie will until some big Issue conies along. Tin not much of a liiitnl at limiting squirrels,' lie Hiild to me the other ilny. 'Walt till I nee n hear.' The people or Vnnihilla and Springfield June never seen lilin yet. They don't know him ns I do. Hut they all re spect liliu Just for his good-fellowship, honesty and decency. I gilosH Hint every fellow with a foul mouth hates himself for It und envies the mini who isn't like him. They hegln to see his skill us a politician, which has shown Itself In the passage of a Mil removing the capital to Spring Held. Ahe Lincoln was the man who put It through. Hut he has not yet un covered his liest talents. Mark my word, souiu day LIucolh will he a big nut n. "The death of his sweetheart has aged and sobered him. . When we are together lie often sits looking down with a sad face. For a while not a word out of him. Suddenly he will begin saying things, the effect of which will go with me to my grieve, although 1 cannot call back the words and place Ihein us he did. lie Is what 1 would call a great captain of words. Seems as If I heard the baud playing while they inarched by me ns well dressed and stepping as proud and regular as the Huston (iuards. In Borne great battle between ltlght and Wrong you will hear from liltn. I hope It may be the battle between Slavery and Freedom, although at present he thinks they must avoid coming (o a clinch. In my opinion It cannot be done. I expect to live to see the tight and to take part In It." Late In (he session of ISM-lKl" the prophetic truth of' these words began to reveal itself. A bill was being put through the legislature denouncing the growth of abolition sentiment und Its activity In organized societies and up holding the right of property In slaves. Suddenly Lincoln bad come to a fork in the road. Popularity, the urge of many friends, the counsel of wealth nuil power, and public opinion, the call 'of good politics pointed In one direc tion and the crowd went that way. It was a stampede. Lincoln stood alone ut tho comer. The crowd beckoned, but In vain. One man came back and Joined him. It was Dan Stone, who was not a candidate for reelection. His political career was ended. There were three words on the sign-board pointing toward the perilous and lone ly road that Lincoln proposed to fol low. They were the words Justice and Human KiglitH. Lincoln and Dan Stone took that road In a protest, de claring that they "believed the Institu tion of slavery was founded upon In justice and had policy." Lincoln hud followed his conscience, Instead of the crowd. At twenty-eight years of age be had safely passed the great danger point In his career. The declaration nt Pe rn tur, the speeches against Douglas, the 'miracle of turning 4,000,000 beasts Into 4,000.000 men, the sublime utter nnce at Cettysburg, the wise parables, the second Inuugural, the innumerable nets of mercy, nil of which lifted him into undying fame, were now possible. Henceforth he wns to go forward with the growing approval of his own spirit and the favor of Clod. BOOK THREE . CHAPTER XVII. Wherein Young Mr. Lincoln Betrays Ignorance of Two Highly Important Subjects. There were two subjects of which Mr. Lincoln had little understanding. They were women and finance. Until they had rightly appraised the value of his friendship, women had been wont to regard him with a riant curi osity. He linil been aware of this, and for years hud avoided women, save those of old acquaintance. When he lived at the tavern in the village, often lie had gone without a meal rather than expose himself to the eyes of strange women. The reason for this was well understood by those who knew him. The young man wns tin exceed ingly sensitive human being. No doubt he hud suffered more than any one knew from ill-concealed ridicule, but he had beta able to bear It with composure In his callow youth. Later uothlng roused his auger like an at tempt to ridicule him. Two women he hud regnrded with great tenderness his footer mother, the second wlfo of Thomas Lincoln, ml Ann ltutledge. Others bad been to him, mostly, delightful but Inscru table beings. The company of women end of dollars had been equally unfa miliar to him. He hud said more than once in his young manhood that he fitlt embarrassed la the presence of either. AGES and knew not quite how to behave himself an exaggeration In which there was no small amount of truth. In 1811(1 the middle frontier hail en tered upon a slnguliir phase of Its de velopment. Emigrants from the Hast and South and from overseas had been pouring Into It. The summer before the lake and river steamers had been crowded with them, and their wagons had come In long processions out of the Kust. Chicago bad begun Its phe nomenal growth. A frenzied specula tion in town lots had been under way In that community since the autumn of "15. it wus spreading through the state. Imnglnury cities were laid out on the lonely prairies and nil the cor tier lots sold to eager buyers and paid for with promises. Millions of conver sational, promissory dollars, based upon the gold at the foot of the rain bow, were changing hnnds day by duy. The legislature, with un empty treas ury behind It, voted twelve millions for river improvements and Imnglnnry railroads and canals, for which neither surveys nor estimates hnd been made, to serve the drenm-bullt cities of the speculator. If Mr. Lincoln hud had more experience In the getting ami use of dollars and more acquaintance with the shrinking timidity of Inrge sums, he would have tried to dissipate these Illusions of grandeur. Itut he went with the crowd, every member pf which had u like Inexperience. in the midst of the session Samson Traylor arrived In VunduIIu on his visit to Mr. Lincoln. "I have sold my farm," said Snmson to his old friend the evening ef his ur rival. "Did you get n good pricor Mr. Lin coln asked. . "All that my conscience would nllow me to take," said Samson. "The man olTcrcd me three dollars an acre In cash and ten dollnrs In tiotes. We compromised on seven dollars, all cash." "Whnt are you going to do now that you have sold out?" "I was thinking of going up to Taze well county." "Why don't you go to the growing and prosperous town of Sprlnglleld?" Mr. Lincoln asked. "The capltol will be there, and so will I. It Is going to be a big city. Men who nre to make history will live In Springfield. You must come mid help. I shall need your friendship, your wisdom and your sym pathy. I shall want to sit often by your fireside. You'll find n good school there for the children. If you'll think or It seriously I'll try to get you Into ('( public service." "We need you plenty," Samson an swered. "We kind o' think o' you ns one o' the family. I'll talk It over with Surjili and see. Never mind the Job. If I keep you behnvln' yourself, It'll be Job enough. Anywny, I guess we can nianug'e" to get .along." "I've hud a talk with Stunrt nnd have some good news for Harry and Illm." said young Mr. Lincoln. "Stunrt thinks she can get n divorce under the law of 18U7. I suppose they ure still interested In each other?" "He's like most of the Ynnkees. Once he gets set, It's hard to change him. The Kelsos have moved to Chi cago, and I don't know how Him stands. If Harry knows, he hasn't said a word to us about It." "I'm Interested In thnt little ro mance," said the legislator. "It's our duty to do whnt we can to secure the happiness of these young lovers. Tell Harry to come over here, I want to tulk with him." CHAPTER XVIII. In Whjch Mr. Lincoln, Samson and Harry Take a Long Ride Together and the Latter Visit the Flourishing Little City, of Chicago. Mr. Lincoln had brought the papers which Harry was to take to Him, and made haste to deliver them. The boy was eager to be off on his mission. The Holds were sown. The new buyer was coming to tnke possession In two weeks. Samson and Harry bad fin ished their work In New Salem. "Walt till tomorrow and maybe I'll go with ye," said Samson. "I'm anx ious to take a look at that little mush room city of Chlcngo." "And buy p few corner lots?" Abe asked, with a smile. "No; I'll wnlt till next year. They'll be cheaper then. I believe In Chicago. It's placed right on the waterwny to the north nnd east, with good country on three sides and transportation on the other. It can go Into partnership with Steam Power right away nnd be gin to do business. Your grain and pork can go straight from there to Al bany and New York and Hoston nnd Haltlmoro without being rehundled. When railroads come If they ever do Steam Power will bo shoving urnln and meat nnd passengers Into Cbleago from every point of the compiis,- ClncclH trnd Xm BnraH and mI4: "This Is a growing country. You ought to gee the cities springing up there In the legislature. I wns looking with great satisfaction ut the crop when Snmson came along one day nnd fell on It. He wus like u frost In mid summer." "The seed was sown too early," Sam son rejoined. "You and I may live to see all the dreams of Vandalla come true." "Ad all the nightmares, too," said the young statesman. "Yft, we're going to wake up nnd find a cold morning and not much to cat 'a the house nnd the wolf ut the dooi. iut we'll live through It." Ttfh the young statesman proposed : "If r."u are going with Ilnrry, I'fl go nlon,; nnd see what they've done on the IV'.'iols und Michigan canal. Some contiWtors w worked ou the Erie canal vill start from Chicago Monday to loft the ground over und bid on the construction of the southern end of It. I war.' to talk with them when they come ong down the line." "I RTess u few days In the saddle would n you good," said Samson. "I 'Kkon It would. I've been cloyed fi house air nnd oratory and future greatness. The prairie wind and yi-flr pessimism will straighten file 111)." Hnrri' rode to the village that after noon to set "Colonel" and Mrs. Luklns to come Mtt to the farm and stay with Sarah Vhllo he und Samson were uwuy. .Toslah, mow n sturdy hoy of thirteen, stood In t?e doorynrd, holding the two saddle p'les from Nebraska which Samson l'J bought of a drover. Hot scy, a hurf-sonie young miss almost fif teen years old, stood beside him. Sarah, wh-xie face had begun to show the wenr ft years full of loneliness nnd hard ork, was packing the saddle-bags, nTw nearly filled, witli extra socks nnd ihlrts und doughnuts and bread und butter. They met Abe Lincoln nt tho tavern, where he was waiting on a big horse which he had borrowed for the trip from James Kutledge. Without de lay, the three men set out ou the north rond In perfect wenther. From "I've Been Cloyed on House Air and Oratory and Future Greatness." the hill's edge they could look over a wooded plain running fur to the cast. As they rode on, the young states man repeated a long passuge from one of the sermons of Dr. William Ellury dimming on the "Instability of Hu man Affairs." "I wish that I had your memory," Samson remarked. "My memory Is like a piece of metal," said the young legislator. "Learning Is not easy for me. It's rather slow work like engraving with a tool. Hut when n tiling Is once printed on my memory It seems to stay there. It doesn't rub out. When I run across a great Idea, well ex pressed, I like to put It on the wall of my mind where I can live with It. In this way every man can have his own little nrt gallery and bo in the com pany of great men." They forded a creek In deep water, where n bridge had been washed away. As they came out dripping on the farther shore, Lincoln remarked: "The thing to do in fording a deep stream Is to keep watch o' your horse's ears. As long as you can see 'em you'ro nil right." "Mr. Lincoln, I'm sorry you got Into n hole," said Snmson. "I don't mind thnt, but while we're traveling together, please don't call me 'Mr. Lincoln.' I don't think I've done anything to deserve such lack of re spect." Samson answered : "If you're nice to us, I don't know but we'll call ye 'Abe' again, Just for a few days. You can't expect us to go too far with a man who associates with Judges nnd u'enornis and governors and such trash. If you keep It up, you're bound to lose standing hi our community." "I know I've chnnged," snld Abe. "I've grown older since Ann died yenrs ugo but I don't want aou fel lows to throw me over. I'm on the same level thnt you nre nnd I Intend to stny there. It'H n fool notion that men go up some heavenly stnlrwny to another plnne when they begin to do things worth while. Thnt's a kind of feudallstlc twaddle. The wise man keeps his feet on the ground and lifts his mind ns high ns possible. The higher he lifts it, the more respect ho will have for the common folk. Have clthw of you seen MeNamar since he sot bnck?" " ii i ii fl tW him the dny te (trove ti tho village," Ilnrry answered, "i. wns expecting to find Ann and u.nut good his promise to ninrry her." "Poor fodll It's u sad story nP around," said Abe Lincoln, "lie's not a hnd fellow, I reckon, but he broke Ann's heart. Didn't realize what a tender thing It wns. I can't forgive him." In the middle of the nfternoon they came In sight of the home of Henry Hrlmstend. "Here's where we stop nnd feed, and listen to Henry's secrets," snld Samson. The level fields were cut Into squares outlined by wooden stnkcs. Hrlmstend was mowing the grass In his doorynrd. He dropped his scythe nnd enmo to welcome the travelers. "Say, don't you know that you are standing In the center of n Inrge nnd promising city?" he said to Samson. "You are standing nt the corner of Grand nvenue nnd Empire street, In the growing city of El Porndo, nenr the great water highway of Illinois," Hrlmstend declaimed. "Where's the growln?" Samson de manded. Hrlmstend came closer and snld In a confidential tone: "If you stnnd right where you nre nn' listen, you'll henr It growln'." "It sounds a good denl like n turnip growln' In a gnrden," Samson re marked, thoughtfully. "Give It a fair chance." Hrlmstend went on. "Two cellars hnve been dug over there In the pasture. One Is for the town hull nnd the other for the university which the Methodists nre going to build. A railroad has been surveyed rind Is expected this sum mer. Every corner lot has been sold nnd paid for, half cash and half notes." "The brokers In Chicago got the cash and you got the notes?" "You've snld It. I've got a drawer full of notes." "And you've quit fijrmln'?" "Say, I'll tell ye the land hns gone up so It wouldn't pay. Peasley an 1 cal'nte that we're goln' to git rich this summer snllln' lots." "Wuke up, mini. You're dreamln'," snld Samson. Henry came close to Snmson nnd said In n confident Inl tone: "Say, mrbbe the whole stnte Is dreamln' un' yellln' in .Its sleep 'bout cnnnls nn' schools an' factories an' mills ad' rail roads. We're bavin n good time, any way." This reminded Abe Lincoln of the story : "There was n man In Pope countj who came home one evening nnd sat down In the middle of the barn tloor and began to sing. Ills wife asked him: '"Are you drunk or crnzy or n fool?'" " 'I don't know whnt you'd call It, but I know I ain't got a darn bit to spnre,' he nuswered, with a whoop of Joy." "You're all goln' to roll out o bed and hit the floor with a bump," snld Simmon. Hrlmstend declared In his usual tone of confidence: "The worst part o' bein' n fool Is lonesonieness. I wns the only one In Flen vnlley. Now I shall be In the com pany of a governor an do::cns o- well known statesmen. You'll be the only lonesome man In Illinois." "I sometimes fear that he will en Joy tho loneliness of wisdom," snld Honest Abe. "In some parts of the stnte every farmer owns his own private city," Snmson declared. "I hope Henry Hrlmstend docs as well raising cities as he did ralslpg grain. He was ii very successful farmer." "I knew you'd make fun o' me but when you come again you'll see the towers an' steeples," said Hrimstcad. "Put tip your horses and come Into the house and see the first lady of Kl Dorado." Mrs. Hrlmstend had their dinner cooking before the horses were cared ror. "Well, what do, you think of Henry's plans?" she nskoil. "I like the farm better." "So do I." the woman declnred. "Hut the men around here hnve gone crazy with dreams of sudden wealth." "I've only a wonl of advice about It. If those Chicago men sell any more of your laud make them take the note and you take the money. Where Is Annabel?" ' "Touching the school nt Hopodale." "We're going up to Chicago to see the Kelsos," said Samson. "Glnd you are. Some rich feller up there by the name of Davis has fallen In love with P.lm an' he don't give her any peace. He left here last night goln' north. Owns n Jot o' hind in Tazewell county nn wenrs u diamond In his shirt us big as your thumb nail. Him lias been teaching school In Chicago tills winter. It must be a wonderful place.. Every one has loads of money. The stores nn' houses nre as thick as the hair on a dog's back some of 'em as big as nil outdoors." Abe Lincoln and Ilnrry entered with their host and the travelers sat down to a luncheon of pudding nnd milk anil doughnuts and pic. "How far do you call It to the syca more woods?" Lincoln asked as they rose from the table. "About thirty mile," snld Hrlm stend. "We must he off If we nre to get there before dark." the yonng states man declnred (TO nrc CONTINUED.) finuffrlere Eruption. 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