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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athered to hearhim were Democrats. They were rough men ; they chewed tobacco,drank whiskey, and became angry at what Baker was saying. The office of Stuart lV: Lincoln was over the court-room. A tra)>door for ventilation, above the platform of the court-room, opened intotheir office. Lincoln, desiring to hear what Baker was saying, lifted thedoor, stretched himself upcjii the floor, and looked d<nvn upon the sway-ing crowd. Baker was talking aljout the stealings of the Democraticofficials in the land-offices. Wherever there is a land-office there you will And a Democraticnewspaper defending its corruptions, said Baker. Pull him down I Put him out I It is a lie! the cry from a fellowin the crowd, whose brother was editor of a Democratic paper. Therewas a rush for the platform. Great the astonishment of the crowd atseeinc a pair of lout! leijs danHe from the scuttle, and then the bodv,shoulders, and head of x\braham Lincoln, who let himself down to the 100 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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EDWARD DICKINSON BAKER platform. He lifted bis hand, but tbe fellows did not beed bis gesture.Tbey saw bim grasp a stone-ware water-pitcber and beard bim say, Illbreak it over tbe bead of tlie first man wbo lays a band on Baker!Hold on, gentlemen ! Tbis is a free country—a land for free speecb.Mr. Baker bas a rigbt to speak; let bim be beard. I am bere to protectbim, and no man sball take bim from tbis platform if I can preventit.() It was as if be bad said—as was said once before— Peace, be still.Tbe people knew bow cbampion wrestlers bad gone down before bim;but it was not tbat wbicb bushed the crowd to silence a,nd stilled tbestorm. Tbey knew bis goodness—bow kind-hearted, just, honest, and IX PURLTC LIFE. 101 true lie was; that lie stands ever foi what is right. Raker goes on, noone ihirinfj: to distni-I) him so lonir as Abraham Lincoln is thei-e. NOTES TO flIArTER VI. Joslma F. Spood, Loctiirc on Abraliaiii Lincoln, p. \7.■■) Ibid., p. 18. ) Sangamon .T<nirnal. .Tu

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