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Alonzo Rothschild. "Honest Abe": A Study in Integrity Based on the Early Life of Abraham Lincoln
"Honest Abe": A Study in Integrity Based on the Early Life of Abraham Lincoln
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
“HONEST ABE”
CHAPTER I. PINCHING TIMES
CHAPTER II. TRUTH IN LAW
CHAPTER III. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
CHAPTER IV. DOLLARS AND CENTS
CHAPTER V. HONESTY IN POLITICS
ALONZO ROTHSCHILD
A LIST OF BOOKS CITED
NOTES
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
INDEX
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Alonzo Rothschild
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Herndon was not the only New Salemite who was willing to transfer his business, after this fashion, for a promissory note. Soon after the transaction, a neighboring storekeeper, Reuben Radford by name, incurred the displeasure of a local gang, “the Clary’s Grove boys,” to such an extent that they made a riotous night of it in his place. On the following morning, standing discouraged amid the débris of the establishment, Radford sold it to the first comer, William G. Greene, a youth who had been a sort of junior clerk in the Offutt store. As the purchaser could not pay in cash the four hundred dollars agreed upon, he gave his note. Then, growing nervous over the transaction, he turned for comfort to his former associate. Lincoln said: “Cheer up, Billy. It’s a good thing. We’ll take an inventory.”
They found that the flotsam and jetsam which had survived the storm, amounted in value to $1200. Whereupon Berry and Lincoln offered Greene a substantial profit on his bargain. This the young man eagerly accepted, with the stipulation that the firm should assume his indebtedness to Radford. There was a little more shuffling of notes, and the goods passed into the hands of Berry and Lincoln.[i-33] They shortly afterwards, in presumably the same manner, absorbed a small business owned by James Rutledge. Combining these three stocks—all acquired by a few strokes of the pen—Lincoln and his partner now had what the junior member later ironically referred to as “the store” of New Salem.
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