Identifier: storylifeoflinco04whip (find matches)
Title: The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Whipple, Wayne, 1856-1942
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: (Philadelphia, The J.C. Winston Co.)
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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s of Human Slavery Within four weeks the boat was ready to launch. Offutt wassent for and was present when she slid into the water. It was theoccasion of much political chat and buncombe, in which the Whigparty and Jackson alike were, strangely enough, lauded to the skies..... Many disputes arose, we are told, in which Lincoln tookpart and found a good field for practice and debate. A traveling juggler halted long enough in Sangamontown,where the boat was launched, to give an exhibition of his art anddexterity in the loft of Jacob Carmans house. In Lincolns low-crowned, broad-brimmed hat the magician cooked eggs. In ex-plaining the delay in passing up his hat, Lincoln drolly observes: It was outof respect for the eggs, not care for my hat. Having loaded the vessel with pork in barrels, corn, and hogs,these sturdy boatmen swung out into the stream. On April 19(1831) they reached New Salem, a place destined to be an importantspot in the career of Lincoln. There they met with their first
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REMOVAL TO ILLINOIS 83 serious delay. The boat stranded on Rutledges mill-dam and hungover it a day and a night. We unloaded the boat, narrated one of the crew That is, we transferred the goods from our boat to a borrowedone. We then rolled the barrels forward; Lincoln bored a hole inthe end (projecting) over the dam; the water which had leaked inran out and we slid over. Offutt was profoundly impressed with this exhibition of Lin-colns ingenuity. In his enthusiasm he declared to the crowd thatcovered the hill, and had been watching Lincolns operations,that he would build a steamboat to plow up and down the Sanga-mon, and that Lincoln should be her captain. She would haverollers for shoals and dams, runners for ice, and with Lincoln incharge, By thunder, shed have to go! . . . . From the Sangamon they passed to the Illinois. At Beards-town their unique craft, with its sails made of planks and cloth, excited the amusement and laughter of those who saw them fromthe shore. Once on the bo

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