An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Honest Old Abe

Ward, Artemus. "Honest Old Abe." New-York Saturday Press, June 30, 1860, 4.
Type
newspaper
Genre
commentary
Abstract

Ward gives us the "real" story of how Abraham Lincoln was given the news of being nominated as presidential candidate. He apparently was too busy splitting wood to care about being nominated.

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