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Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln! FF oo rr TT hh ee PP ee oo pp ll ee A NEWSLETTER OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSOCIATION VOLUME 10, NUMBER 4 WINTER 2008 SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. LINCOLN! February 12, 1809 February 12, 2009 2 A NEWSLETTER OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSOCIATION FOR THE PEOPLE The Abraham Lincoln Association Portrait of Abraham Lincoln Richard E. Hart by George Henry Story (1835-1923) President Barbara Hughett Robert J. Lenz Robert Willard Vice Presidents Thomas F. Schwartz Secretary Robert A. Stuart, Jr. Treasurer Roger D. Bridges Immediate Past-President Mary Shepherd Executive Assistant James M. Cornelius Board of Directors Curator of the Lincoln Collection Kenneth L. Anderson Molly M. Becker Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Michael Burlingame Nancy Chapin Brooks Davis We asked James M. Cornelius, Curator of the Lincoln Collection at the Robert J. Davis Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, to select the artwork for the front Rodney O. Davis Robert S. Eckley page of this Bicentennial edition of For The People. He selected George Guy Fraker Story’s June 1861 portrait of Abraham Lincoln from the Presidential Li- Allen C. Guelzo Kathryn M. Harris brary’s collection. We asked James to tell us a little bit about the portrait, Earl W. Henderson, Jr. Fred B. Hoffmann and here is what he wrote. David Joens Ron J. Keller Lee McTurnan Story first saw Lincoln when the President-elect walked into the photographic Richard W. Maroc studio of Mathew Brady in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, 24 February R. Eden Martin 1861. Lincoln had arrived by train from Illinois the previous day, had gone to Myron Marty Richard Mills church in a new suit with William H. Seward on Sunday morning, and then went Susan Mogerman to have his portrait taken. Story, who rented a room in Brady‘s studio, helped to Mark E. Neely, Jr. pose Lincoln and then sat by to make pencil sketches while Brady‘s chief opera- James W. Patton III Mark Plummer tor, Alexander Gardner, took five photographs. Story next sat by the working William G. Shepherd st nd rd President in the Executive Mansion on June 1 , 2 , and 3 , 1861, to finish out Brooks D. Simpson his treatment. Though Lincoln had sat for at least ten portraits in Springfield Daniel Stowell Nicky Stratton before boarding the train for the east, Story was able to create one of the first oil Louise Taper paintings of Lincoln with a beard. Timothy P. Townsend Donald R. Tracy Andy Van Meter His timing was fortunate. Between their two meetings, war had broken Daniel R. Weinberg out. While Lincoln still has the spark in his eye of a young man, the storm Stewart L. Winger Kenneth J. Winkle clouds of war hover near the Capitol building at the back. This insightful por- trait of the wartime leader proved to be popular as well as reassuring for another Honorary Directors President-elect Barack Obama generation too, when American involvement in World War I inspired Story to Senator Richard Durbin repaint the image several times. Thus, today there are copies that belong to the Governor Rod R. Blagojevich White House, the Smithsonian Institution, the Huntington Library, the Metro- Congressman Ray LaHood Congressman John Shimkus politan Museum, Lafayette College, and three other sites. Justice Rita Garman Mayor Timothy J. Davlin According to Story‘s later recollection, he made those additional renderings be- Emeritus Directors cause in 1915 he found in the nation‘s capital ―no portrait of Lincoln in any of Cullom Davis the public galleries or in any of the departmental buildings.‖ This oversight of Georgia Northrup Harlington Wood, Jr. course has since been rectified many times over. Moreover, such was the spirit of the moment and the rediscovered centrality of Lincoln to our history that Mr. Distinguished Directors Mario M. Cuomo Story in his 80s was asked to serve as a curator of paintings at the Metropolitan David Herbert Donald Museum of Art in New York. Today the Presidential Library and Museum is John Hope Franklin pleased to hold recent portraits of our 16th president executed by artists as young Harry V. Jaffa Robert W. Johannsen as 21 – five years younger than G.H. Story was in 1861. Lincoln continues to Garry Wills inspire people of all ages and all skills. FOR THE PEOPLE A NEWSLETTER OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSOCIATION 3 Lincoln’s Encounters ties west of the Appalachian Mountains, When Lincoln‘s name was placed on the graduating from Transylvania University Supreme Court roll, allowing him to prac- With the Past and Future in Lexington, Kentucky. There, he mar- tice law, it was Stuart who took him on as Leaders at Vandalia ried into the wealthy merchant family of a junior partner in the firm of Stuart and Robert Smith Todd. He returned to Illi- Lincoln. nois in 1833 where he served as Attorney General before being elected to the state Finally, it was Vandalia where Lincoln legislature in Vandalia. While most of the would meet his future nemesis, Stephen legislature tended to reflect the makeup of Arnold Douglas. The young man from Illinois, Edwards reflected the patrician Vermont moved to Illinois to become a style of politics practiced by his father. ―Western Man‖ and seek fame and for- Fellow legislator and attorney Usher tune. Douglas, like so many of his genera- Linder recalled that Edwards ―was natu- tion, was extremely optimistic and ambi- Thomas F. Schwartz rally and constitutionally an aristocrat, and tious. He was impatient to make a name Illinois State Historian he hated democracy when I first knew for himself, being more interested in mov- him, as the devil is said to hate holy wa- ing up the ladder of success quickly rather David Donald has aptly noted that every- ter.‖ than spending the time mastering the de- one wants to ―get right with Lincoln.‖ tails of the various offices he held. Fellow Organizations as diverse as temperance If Edwards was refined and aloof, Linder Democrat Hezekiah Morse Wead found groups that note Lincoln never drank liq- was the opposite, being coarse and earthy. Douglas‘s knowledge of the law wanting uor to socialist workers who remind us During his time in the Vandalia legisla- even though Douglas was elected to the that Lincoln was a friend of common la- ture, Linder managed to insult a fellow Illinois Supreme Court. As Wead wrote: borers, all illustrate how groups validate member of the house. Offending one‘s ―Although Douglass had not that much their claims through Abraham Lincoln. honor was no laughing matter, and a chal- idea of what the law was, yet he had a Three states—Kentucky, Indiana, and lenge to a duel was issued. Fortunately, decided disposition to read what he Illinois—all claim him as a resident and Linder‘s second, the distinguished John thought the law ought to be. In other that the time he spent within their borders Dement, made the terms such that the duel words, he was not much of a lawyer, he was pivotal to the development of his never took place. Dement indicated that had then not much reputation for any thing character and later leadership abilities. the terms of the duel would be ―pistols at (but there was a general idea among the Only Illinois was shrewd enough to trade- close quarters, each holding one end of the people that he would be a great man) and mark the phrase ―Land of Lincoln,‖ per- same handkerchief in his teeth.‖ Dement he decided all questions upon his own idea manently identifying him in the public‘s knew that Linder was ―nervous and excit- of what was just and fair.‖ mind with the Prairie State. able,‖ while the opponent was ―cool, des- perate and deliberate.‖ Dement concluded Wead identified what voters saw in Doug- To a large extent, Lincoln biographers that if Linder ―has to lose his life your las—charisma. In spite of his slight have focused on New Salem as the defin- friend must bear him company.‖ height, Douglas won the hearts and minds ing moment for the young Illinois Lincoln of the voters who bestowed the appellation when, in fact, Vandalia could make a Linder was combative and had little use ―Little Giant‖ to the feisty 5‘ 4‖ politician. similar claim. The community of Vanda- for abolitionists such as Elijah Lovejoy. Almost two decades after their encounter lia and the excitement and challenges of His Kentucky upbringing embraced slav- in Vandalia, Lincoln mused: ―With me, creating and passing legislation are under- ery. He also had a drinking problem com- the race of ambition has been a failure—a appreciated and sadly overlooked in most mon to a culture that celebrated ―hard flat failure; with him it has been one of Lincoln biographies. Another vital aspect cider.‖ He frequently appeared in court splendid success.‖ Lincoln and Douglas of Lincoln‘s time in Vandalia is his en- drunk. David Davis, judge of the 8th judi- would battle one another twice, once for counters with the great statesmen of his cial district, kept a running commentary in the United States Senate in 1858. Douglas day. Vandalia represented a generational his correspondence to his wife on whether would win. Then in 1860 for the United mix of the early leaders for the territorial Linder was sober or drunk before the States Presidency—here Lincoln would and early statehood period to the young court. After several admonishments from triumph. turks, such as Lincoln, who would cut the bench an exasperated Davis declared: their political eye teeth in Vandalia and go ―Mr. Linder, I must give you some advice. If Lincoln learned lessons from his en- on to prominent roles in national politics.
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