Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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LIFE IN NEW SALEM. 79
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GKOUGE D. PKENTICE. the Review, and Mr. Prentice vrent to Kentncky and prepared a lifeof Mr. Clay, a copy of -which fell into the hands of the young postmas-ter at New Salem, who read it with great care, and who accepted thepolitical principles of the Kentucky statesman. Mr. Clay needed a news-paper to set forth his principles, and Mr. Prentice accordingly estab- 80 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. lished the Louisville Journal, for which the postmaster at NewSalem had subscribed. He found great pleasure in reading its wittyand pungent paragraphs to the loungers in Mr. Hills store, such asthe following: An editor in Indiana threatens to handle us without gloves. We certainly wouldnever think of handling him without three pair, and thick ones at that.What woiild you do, madam, if you were a gentleman ? Sir, what would you do if you were one ? Strange that a dinner to which a man has not been invited is generally the one thatsits hardest on the stomach. It is certain that he must have laughed h

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