Fraternity-Testvériség, 1961 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1961-02-01 / 2. szám

FRATERNITY

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ROBERT EDWARD LEE

Abe was big enough to go to school, his Pa kept him busy clearing forest, plowing, planting and gathering corn.

Thanks to Abe’s stepmother he did go to school “by littles". as he said, for about nine years. All his schooling together didn’t amount to one full year, but it taught him to read and write.

Abe Lincoln grew big, honest and friendly. On a work trip to New Orleans, delivering vegetables and bacon to cotton planters, he saw negroes chained and sold in auction. It was then that he voiced to liberate slaves — if he ever got the chance.

The John Hancock booklet, “Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator’’, attributes his growth in politics to the fact that he CARED about his people and they knew it, and they pushed him ahead. From assistant county surveyor and local postmaster he rose to serve four terms in the Illinois State Legislature. During his first term, at age 27, he was admitted to the bar. Eleven years later, in 1847, he won a seat in Congress, and was elected President of the United States November 6, 1860.

When Forst Sumter fell, a month after Lincoln’s inauguration in March 1861, the President issued a call for 75,000 volunteers and offered command of the Union Army to Robert E. Lee, the best man he knew for the job.

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