Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, the Presidential Candidate for the Republican Party. - Photographed by Brady

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, October 20, 1860 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The Republican candidate for the Presidency is one of a class which belongs especially to our Republic. No other nation on the face of the globe can boast of men who, by the mere force of individual hardihood and merit, rise through all the gradations of toil to the highest offices in the State. Common labor, which brutalises and degrades man in other lands, in our own country strengthens him mentally as well as physically, and the cabinet-maker and the rail-splitter, after having earned a competency by the honest labor of their hands, finally meet face to face as contestants for the highest office in the gift of the people. Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin county, Kentucky, of poor but honest and industrious parents. After receiving a limited education, he became a laborer, and worked hard for some years. In 1830 we find him a boatman on the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and fulfilling his humble duties with exemplary fidelity and perseverance. Lincoln’s first trip to New Orleans was made in his nineteenth year from the Ohio River in a flat boat belonging to Denton Offut. During his trip he had a

Date

1860

Photographer / author

Mike Goad

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

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print

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1,949 × 3,026 pixels

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