...candidate for the Legislature, issued at the ripe old age of twenty-three, closes with these words, "But if the good people in their wisdom shall see...me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointment to be very much chagrined." The man who wrote that sentence, thirty years later wrote...

...you. I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life. I have no wealthy or powerful relations or friends to recommend me. My case is thrown...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." Election day came, and every man in New Salem, whether Democrat or Whig, voted for Abraham Lincoln....

...friends to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country; and, if elected, they will have conferred a favor...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined. Your friend and fellow-citizen, A. LINCOLN. NEW SALEM, March 9, 1832. RECEIPT FOR ARMS. BEARDSTOWN,...

...candidate for the Legislature, issued at the ripe old age of twentythree, closes with these words, "But if the good people in their wisdom shall see...me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointment to be very much chagrined." The man who wrote that sentence, thirty years later wrote...

...truly esteemed of my fellowmen by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed....the one he was seeking. About four weeks after he had published his letter "To the People of Sangamon County," news came that Black Hawk, the veteran...

...truly esteemed of my fellowmen by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed....the one he was seeking. About four weeks after he had published his letter " To the People of Sangamon County," news came that Black Hawk, the veteran...

...truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed....familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined. Your friend and fellow-citizen, A. LINCOLN. NEW SALEM, March 9, 1832. TO EC BLANKENSHIP. NEW SALEM,...

...friends to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country ; and, if elected, they will have conferred a favor...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." From this moment, until the first great victory of his difficult struggle for recognition — his nomination...

...favor upon me, for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate. But, if the good people, iu their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background,...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." 15 How sincere was the writer's desire to be " truly esteemed " had been manifested, a few weeks later,...

...candidate for the Legislature, issued at the ripe old age of twenty-three, closes with these words, "But if the good people in their wisdom shall see...me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointment to be very much chagrined." The man who wrote that sentence, thirty years later wrote...