Abraham Lincoln Junior High School - Annual Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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1,1111 I .i X t , 1 x x . . k 1 k x t t ' 1 Many- yeanago there liveii in the state of Illinois a coun- t X ' ' v i it try laqug Iby 1113. xnaine of Abe Lyicoln. This man, destined KINTRQIJUCTION to bebbine Pregident bf the United States, was so greatly '1 k . J ' i atimired zind $981ch that even his antagonists had to look T i I 1 s i .1 ' t mm him. In honesty? and integrity he had no superior. In I h - I i i X: . lxiiscitsyrnigand far-sikhtedness he was without pee1. In industry 5 , . i 1 . I 1 i . 2! ii sticktto-itkiveness he was master. , 1 .69 1 i. 1 15 i b . This man, able, courteous, strong, and intelligent, was cho- I J r h c ' ' '1, 1 ' . ' senihy the people to 1.513 the 'United States through the blackest ; . f- Kipe1i.od1in' American hisfoiy e The Civil War. No stranger 1 ' , K 1 . t A i ' ,to,slave1y, having been introduced to it on a trip to New 4 ll : Orleans While! still a young man, but hating the idea of servi- ! tude for any human being, one of his most important acts was i to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, setting free of any type of forced bondage all of the slaves in the country. This was indeed the act of a fearless man, for by this proclamation the entire southern economy and way of life was shattered. Some might say that this was the iistraW Which broke the camels back, for this act was such a blow to the South that the end of the war was hastened.