People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — McClure’s Magazine for March [ARTICLE]

McClure’s Magazine for March

In McClure's Magezine for March is brought to light a speech of 1837 by Abraham Lincoln which the biographers until now, seemingly, have known nothing of, though it contains passages still of the highest interest. For example, of politicians, Lincoln says: “A set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people, and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. I say this with the greater freedom, because, being a politician myself, nonecanregard it as personal."’ There are also an amusingly judicious love proposal of Lincoln’s and some lively reminiscences of him as the leader in a successful manoeuvre to establish the State capital at Springfield and as a young lawyer in that smart, new town. The pictures numerous, and include four portraits of Lincoln.

From Mrs. T. J. McCoy we learn that the “Daughters of the Revolution"’ are ready to be organized here, all the preliminaries being arranged. At another time we will publish a list of the members who become enrolled.