The Chattanooga News. (Chattanooga, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1922 Page: 2 of 6
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THE CHATTANOOGA NEWS
A Man for
the Ages
A Story of the Builders
of Democracy •
6
By
IRVING BACHELLER
Copyright, Irving Bacheller
CHAPTER XX—Continued.
—20—
Tlie young 111:111 disappeared through
hi' door of tho private office and Noon
etunied and conducted Snmson Into
lie presence of Mr. Davis. The two
nen recognized each other.
"Well, sir, what Is It about?" the
•oung speculator demaitled.
"The daughter of my old friend,
lack Kelso, owes you some money and
. want to pay It," said Snmsoii.
"Oh, ihat Is a matter lietween Miss
Kelso and me." Mr. I>a\ls spoke po-
.ltely and with 11 smile.
"Not exactly—since I knew about
It," Samson answered.
"I refuse to discuss her affairs with
you," Davis declared.
"I suppose you mistrust me," said
Samson. "Well, I've offered to pay
you and I'm going to make it plain to
them that they don't have to worry
any more about the money you loaned
them."
"Very well, I bid you gJc«' morn
.Inc."
' "Don't be In a hurry," Samson an-
swered. "I have a note of live thou-
sand dollars against you. It is In-
dorsed to me by Henry Hriinstead and
I want to collect l!"
"I refuse 10 pay It," Davis promptly
answered.
"Then I shall have to put it in the
hands of a lawyer," said Samson.
"Put It where you like but don't
consume any more of my time.
"But you'll have to bear me say that
I don't think you're honest."
"I have beard you," Davjs answered
calmly.
Samson withdrew and went to tho
Ihonie of Mrs. Kelso, lie found her
with Bltn's boy In her lap—a hand-
some little lad, then a bit over two
years old—at the house on I.11 Salle
Street. Samson told of the failure of
Bltn's letter to reach him and of bis
offer to return the money which Da-
vis had paid for their relief.
"I don't like tile man and I don't
■want you to be under obligation to
him," said Samson. "The story of
Harry's deiith was false and I think
that he Is responsible for It. lie
wanted her to marry him right away
after that—of course. And she went
to the plague settlement to avoid innr-
•rlage. I know her better than you do.
She has read him right, ller soul has
looked Into Ills soul and it keeps her
nw:iy from him."
But Mrs. Kelso could believe n<
evil of her benefactor, nor would sht
promise to cense depending 01! his
bounty.
Samson was a little disheartened by
the visit, lie went to see John \\
worth, the editor of the Democrat, of
whose extreme length Mr. Lincoln had
humorously spoken In his presence.
The young New Knglander was seven
feet tnJI. He welcomed the broad-
shouldered man from Sangamon coun-
ty and began at once to question him
nt,out Honest Abe and "Steve" Doug-
las and O. II. Browning and K. D. Ba-
ker and all the able men of the middle
counties. At the first opportunity
Samson came to the business of his
call—the mischievous lie regarding
Harry's death which bad appeared in
the Democrat. Mr. Wentworth went
:o the proofroom and found the tnanu-
icript of the article.
Samson told of the evil It had
vronght and conveyed his suspicions
n the editor.
"Davis is rather unscrupulous." said
Wentworth. "We know a lot about
.tm in this office."
Samson looked at the article and
resently said: "Here Is a note that
e gave to a friend of mine. It looks
> me as If the note and the article
rere written by the same hand."
Mr. Wentworth compared the two
;nd said. "You arc right. The same
lerson wrote tlietn. Hut it was not
Davis."
When Samson left the office of the
Democrat he had accomplished lltth
live the continuation of his sus
itcions. There was nothing he could
10 about It.
He went to till Kredenlierg. "What
las Davis done to you?" Samson
isked, recilHng where be had met Kll
hat niornln.t.
Eli explained th(it he had borrowed
noney from Davis to tide him over the
laid timei and was paying 1- per
tent for It
"K)is mil'1! ing I get dot letter from
<ls si.'ireti lie said as he passed
1 lute' K' ! unison.
It v 11s 1 demand for payment In
[he t.n id« rli ing of the Hriinstead note
Olid in 11 s.u e effect on this little his
lory. It '*« 1 ve.ved detinlte knowledge
of it* ant!) ti ship of a malicious false
hood It a vused the anger and sym
patby of Mit nison Trnylor. In the con-
ditions tho 1 prevailing t'JI was un-
able ;o pit: tiie money, lie was In
duni;i r ot using his business. Sam
Kon spent be day Investigating the
afff.lrs of tiie merchant. His banker
and others tjioke well of him. He was
said to lie a man of character and
credit etlib.it russell by the unexpected
scarcity of VK'ori money. So it came
about that, before be left the news
city, Samsiir- bought u fourth Interest
In the business of Kll Kredenlierg. 1 lie
l"t> he owned were then worth less
li-tii 1 ben tic bad bought them but
Ids faith In the future of Chicago had
not abated.
lie wrote a long letter to Blm re
tinting the history of Ids visit and
frankly stating the suspicions to
which he bad been led. He set out
011 the west road at daylight toward
tile Itlviere lies I'lalnes, having wise-
ly decided to avoid passing the plague
tlleuient
CHAPTER XXI.
Wherein a Remarkable School of Po-
litical Science Begins Its Sessions
In the Rear of Joshua Speed's Store.
Also at Samson's Fireside Honest
Abe Talks of the Authority of the
Law and the Right of Revolution.
The boy Joe had had a golden week
at the home of tUe Brlmsteads. The
fair Annabel, knowing not the power
that lay In her beauty, had captured
Ills young heart scarcely fifteen years
of age. He had 110 Interest In her
younger sister, Mary. Itut \nnabel,
with her long skirts nnd full form and
glowing eyes and gentle dignity, had
tirred blm to the depths. When he
left he carried a souJ heavy with re-
gret and great resolutions. Not that
lie had mentioned the matter to her or
to any one. It was a thing too sacred
for speech. To God, in bis prayers,
he spoke of It, but to no other.
He asked to be made and to be
thought worthy, lie would have had
the whole world stopped and put to
sleep for a term until lie was delivered
from the bondage of bis tender youth.
That being impossible, It was for
liitn a sad, but not a hopeless world.
Indeed, be rejoiced In bis sadness. An-
nabel was four years older than be.
If he could make her to know the
depth of ills passion, perhaps she
would wait for hint. He sought for
self-expression I11 The Household Book
of Poetry—a sorrowful nnd pious vol-
ume. He could find; no ladder of
rhyme with an adequate reach. He
endeavored to build one. He wrote
melancholy verses tyid letters, confess-
ing his passion, to Annabel, which
she did not encourage, but which she
always kept and valued for their In
genupus nnd yoljie ardor. Some of
these Anacreontics are among the
treasures inherited by her descend-
ants. They were a matter of slight
Importance, one would say, but they
mark the beginning of a great career.
Immediately after bis return to the
new home In Springfield, the boy,
Josiah, set out to make himself hon-
ored of his ideal. In the effort he
made himself honored of many. Ills
eager brain bad soon taken the footing
of manhood.
A remarkable school of political
science had begun Its sessions in the
little Western village of Springfield.
Tiie world bad never seen the like of
it. Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A.
Douglas, 13. D. Baker, O. 11. Browning.
Jesse B. Thomas, and Josiah Lnmboni
—a most unusual array of talent as
subsequent history has proved—were
wont to gather around the fireplace In
tiie rear of Joshua Speed's store, eve-
nings, to discuss the Issues of the
time. Samson and Ids son Joe came
often to hear the talk Douglas looked
like a dwarf among those long-geared
men. He was slight and short, being
only about five feet tall, but he had a
big, round bead covered with thick,
straight, dark lutlr, a bulldog look and
11 voice like thunder. Douglas and
Lincoln were in a heated argument
over the admission of slavery to the
territories the first night that Samson
and Joe sat down with them.
"We didn't like that little rooster of
a man, be bad such a high and mighty
way with blm nnd so frankly opposed
the principles we believe in. lie was
an out-and-out pro-slavery man. lie
would have every state free to regu-
late its domestic institutions, in its
own way. subject only to the Constitu-
tion of the United States. Lincoln
held that It amounted to saying 'that
if one man chose to enslave another
no third'*party shall be allowed to ob-
ject.' "
In the course of the argument Doug-
las alleged that the Whigs were the
aristocrats of the country.
"That reminds me of a night when
I was speaking at Havana." said Hon-
est Abe. "A man with a ruffled shirt
and a massive gold watch chain got
up and charged that the Whigs were
aristocrats. Douglas in Ills broad-
cloth and fine linen reminds me of
that num. I'm not going to answer
Douglas as 1 answered him. Most of
the Whigs 1 know are my kind of
folks. 1 was a poor boy working
a tint boat at eight dollars n month
and bad only one pall of breeches and
they were buckskin. If you know the
nature of buckskin, you know that
when it is wet and dried by the sun it
will shrink and my breeches kept
shrinking and deserting tiie sock area
of my legs until several Inches of
them were bare above my shoes.
Whilst I was growing longer they
were growing shorter and so UNich
tighter that they left n blue streak
around my legs which can be seen to
this day. If you call that at'stocracy
I know of one Whig that is an aristo-
crat."
"I!ut look at the New Kngland type
f Whig exemplified by the Imperious
and majestic Webster." said Douglas.
Webster was another pAor lad,"
Lincoln answered. "Ills father's home
1 a log cabin I11 a lonely laud until
about the time Daniel was born, when
the family moved to a small frame
house. Ills Is the majesty of a great
Intellect."
There was much talk of this sort
until Mr. Lincoln excused himself to
walk home with his two friends who
bad just returned from the North, be-
ing eager to learn of Samson's visit.
The latter gave him a full account of
It and asked blm to undertake the col-
lection of Brinistead's note.
'I'll get after that fellow right
away," said Lincoln. "I'm glad to get
a chance at one of those men who
have been skinning the farmers."
They sat down by tiie fireside in
Samson's house.
"Joe has decided that he wants to I
be a lawyer," said Samson.
"Well, Joe, we'll all do what we can
to keep you from being a shotgun
lawyer," Abe Lincoln began. "I've got
a good first lesson for you. I found it
in a letter which Kufus Choate had
written to Judge Davis. In it he sa>„
that we rightly have great respect for
the decisions of the majority, but that
the law Is something vastly greater
and more sacred than the verdict of
any majority. 'The law,' he says,
'comes down to us one mighty and
continuous stream of wisdom and ex-
perience accumulated, ancestral,
widening and deepening and washing
itself clearer as it runs on, the agent
of civilization, the builder of a thou
sand cities. To have lived through
ages of unceasing trial with the pas-
sions, interests and affairs of men, to
have lived through the drums and
tramplings of conquest, through revo-
lution and reform and all the changing
cycles of opinion, to have attended
the progress of the race and gathered
unto Itself the approbation of civil-
ized humanity Is to have proved that
it carries in it some spark of Immor-
tal life.' "
The face of Lincoln changed as he
recited the lines of the learned and
distinguished lawyer of Massacbu-
c|iusetts.
His face glowed like a lighted lan-
tern when be began to say those elo-
quent words," Samson writes in his
diary. "He wrote them down so that
Josiah could commit them to memory."
That is a wonderful statement,"
Samson remarked.
Abe answered: "It suggests to me
that the voice of the people in any one
generation may or may not be in-
spired, but that the voice of the best
men of all ages, expressing their sense
of Justice and of right, in the law, is
and must be the voice of God. The
iplrit and body of its decrees are as
indestructible as the throne of Heaven.
You can overthrow them but until
their power is re-established, as surely
it will be, you will live in savagefy."
"You do not deny tiie right of revo-
lution."
"No, but I can see no excuse for it
in America. It has remained for us
to add to the body of the law the idea
that men are created free and equal.
The lack of the saving principle in the
codes of the world has been the great
cause of injustice and oppression."
Honest Abe rose and walked up and
down the room in silence for a mo-
ment. Then lie added:
"Choate phrased It well when tie
said: 'We should beware of awaking
the tremendous divinities of change
from their long sleep. I-et us think
of that when we consider what we
shall do with the evils that afflict us.'"
The boy Joe had been deeply In-
terested In this talk.
"If you'll lend me a book, I'd like
to begin studying." he said.
"There's time enough for that," said
Lincoln. 'iKirst, 1 want you to under-
stand what the law is and what the
lawyer should be. You wouldn't want
to be a piltlfogger. Choate Is the
right model. He has a dignity suited
to the greatness of his chosen master.
They say that before a Justice of the
peace, I11 a room no bigger than a
shoemaker's shop, his work is done
with the same dignity and care that
he would show in the supreme court
of Massachusetts. A newspaper says
that In a dog case at Beverly he
treated the dog as if he were 11 Hon
and the crabbed old squire with the
consideration due a chief Justice."
"He knows how to handle the Eng-
lish language," Samson observed.
"He got .that by reading. He Is the
lies'1 read man at the American bar
and the best Bible student. There's
a lot of work ahead of you, Joe. before
you are a lawyer, and when you're
admlt'ed success comes only of the
e: p-■■ I v for work. Brougham wrote
the peroration .if Ids speech In de-
fense of Queen Caroline nineteen
times."
"1 want to be a great orator." the
boy exclaimed with engaging frank-
ness.
"Then you must remember that
character is the biggest part of it."
Honest Abe declared. "Great thought*
come out of 11 great character and
inly out of that. They will cuiue
even if you have little learning and
none of the graces which attract tiie
eye. But you must have' a character
that Is ever speaking, even when your
lips are silent. It must show In your
lite and till the spaces between your
words. It will help you to choose and
charge them with the love of great
tilings that carry conviction.
"I remember, when I was a boy over
in Gentryvllle, a shaggy, plain-dressed
man rode up to the door one day. He
bad a cheerful, kindly face. His char-
acter began to speak to us before he
opened Ids mouth to ask for a drink
of water.
" 'I don't know who you .are,' my
father said. 'But I'd like it awful
well if you'd light and talk to us.' He
did and we didn't kno'w till be had
gone that he was the governor of the
state. A good character shines like a
candle on a 1 rk night. You cun't
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Then the Fun Began.
Voice (at the other end)—Is that
you. darling?
Gouty Father—Er—yes.
Voice—Ob, good! How's the old
boy's gout, my pet? I mean to say,
If be still has It I'll come ron. d to-
night, but if he hasn't we'll go out to
some show.
Wisdom suggests assurance of the
obese veal before essaying the role of
prodigal son.
No matter how proud a girl may be
of her family name, she's seldom averse
to changing It-
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Harry Told of His Adventures in the
Great Swamps.
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light long enough to compete with It. ;
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either face or tly from but the con- 1
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discoverer of such unwritten laws." |
It was nearing midnight when tliey
heard footsteps on the board walk In
front of the house. In a moment
Harry Needles entered In cavalry uni-
form with line top boots and silver
spurs, erect us a young Indian brave
and bronzed by tropic suns.
"Hello!" he said as he took off his |
belt and clanking saber. "I hang up j
my sword. I have had enough of j
war."
He had ridden across country from |
the boat landing and, arriving so late, |
had left bis horse at a livery stable, j
"I'm lucky to find you and Abe and
Joe all up and waiting for me," be
said as he shook their bands. "How's I
mother?"
"I'm well," Sarah called from the |
top of the stairway. "I'll be down In
a minute."
Kor an hour or more they.sat by
the fireside while Harry told of Ids
adventures In the great swamps of
southern Florida.
"I've done my share of the fight-
ing," he said at length. "I'm going
north tomorrow to find Iilm and her
mother."
"I shall want you to serve a com-
plaint 011 one Lionel Davis," said Mr,
Lincoln.
"I have one of my own to serve on
him," Harry answered. "Ilut I ho pi)
that our case can be settled out of
court."
"I think that I'll go with you as far
as Tazewell county and draw the pa-
pers there." said Lincoln.
When the latter had left for 111?
lodgings and ,loe and Ills mother had
gone to bed, Samson told Harry tho
details of bis visit to Chicago.
"She may have taken the disease
and died with it before now," said the
voting man. "I'll be on my way to
Honey Creek In the morning."
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