Chapter 458 Mr. Lincoln (2)

United States, Illinois.

Lincoln became famous in Springfield because he won a duel against James Shields.

Springfield is located on the Sangamon River. It has another more well-known name, Springfield.

However, because Lincoln made the gang lose money, this reputation is loud but not very good. For example, scarface, despicable sneak attacker, man who won on his knees, murderer

But no matter what, he did receive more attention and had more say.

Of course, this is also due to Lincoln's gift for speaking. He can always drive people's emotions on the stage and make everyone listen to him.

Some people are born politicians. It is said that Lincoln was a stutterer, but at this time he had already learned to arouse the people and promote himself, and everyone was impressed by his speech.

In fact, there has always been a discussion about slavery in the United States, and Lincoln's views are not very popular, because no matter how he speaks, the interests of the American South will never change.

Because no matter how lofty the words are, they will eventually harm the interests of the Southerners, and these views violate the spirit of the US Constitution to a certain extent.

Lincoln knew that no matter how much he said, he would be bored, so he would keep his distance from these people. He would return to his office in the court hall and listen through the windows on the walls of the court hall.

After all, Lincoln was a politician, and he needed to know what people were discussing and what people were interested in.

Once Lincoln was taking a nap in his office, and suddenly heard a noise outside. He got up and went out to see his friend Baker being besieged.

In fact, Mr. Baker was exposing the scandal of Democrats taking bribes, but he had no evidence. However, it was not a false accusation because bribery was a very common phenomenon at that time.

But it was shameful for Mr. Baker to attack his opponent for taking bribes without any evidence. After all, almost every official in the Springfield Court Hall had been bribed.

With a loud bang, someone jumped from the second-floor window and landed steadily on the marble floor in the hall. Then the man came to the podium in two steps. It was none other than Lincoln, who was just taking a nap on the second floor.

"Please be quiet, citizens. We Americans support freedom of speech! Mr. Baker has the right to speak here. Please do not interrupt him!"

Lincoln was tall and imposing, and his words were reasonable, so naturally no one wanted to refute him. In addition, he was looking at the crowd in the hall with unfriendly eyes at this time, and these people did not even have the courage to look at him.

After all, "Scarface" is not called for nothing. In this way, Lincoln stood up for his friend and showed his face in the Republican Party.

Of course, what really established his prestige in the Republican Party was another thing. Lincoln could not only help others out, but also easily erase the achievements of others.

Once when the Democrats were exposing the problem of the abuse of power by the Republicans, Lincoln imitated the other party on the side. For a while, the sound of ridicule and booing was endless. The former could not continue at all, but no one paid attention to the man's repeated reiteration that this was his speech. In the end, he could only leave angrily in protest.

Compared with his commanding response when he was outside, Lincoln seemed to be timid at home.

Lincoln's wife Mary Todd came from a prominent family. Her ancestors participated in the American War of Independence. There were generals and governors in the family. Even now, her father is the president of the Bank of Kentucky.

Mary Todd was elegant, graceful, generous, and well-educated, but because of her background and childhood experiences, she was very impulsive and irritable, so she didn't get along well with the people around her.

In addition, she always said to her sister: "I want to be the first lady."

This made many people think she was crazy, but Mary Todd didn't think so and continued to do her own thing.

Even after Lincoln got married, Mary Todd still did not hide her ambition.

Some ladies teased Mary Todd at the tea party.

"Dear Mary, can your husband Abraham become president?"

"Of course!" The latter answered without hesitation.

Such a quick and decisive answer made the ladies who were ready to watch the show a little embarrassed.

Mary Todd was very strict with Lincoln, even to the point of being picky. Whatever the latter did, it would always cause dissatisfaction to the former.

Fortunately, Lincoln himself was more open-minded in this regard, and family affairs did not involve too much of his energy.

Lincoln had little interest in his young and beautiful wife, delicious food, and children.

Lincoln's children often crawled on him, pulled his hair, and yelled at him, but the former rarely paid attention.

As a lawyer, Lincoln would strictly require others to abide by the law, but he was too indulgent to his family.

Once Lincoln was playing chess with a judge, and his wife, who might have been in a good mood, just casually responded twice when she called him for dinner.

"Come on, come on."

Later, the children came to call Lincoln and said that they were starving, but the latter was still indifferent.

The third time, the children came to call Lincoln again, and the latter still simply responded with two words.

So his eldest son Robert kicked the chessboard away, and the chess pieces flew everywhere, almost splashing on the judge's face.

Lincoln just smiled and said to the guest.

"Mr. Judge, I think we can only find another time."

Lincoln had no intention of teaching the children a lesson, and the judge naturally did not dare to say anything to the congressman's son, so he could only finish his meal and leave.

Lincoln and Mary Todd were very lax in their discipline of their children, which made the children lawless. They liked to hide behind their own fences and attack pedestrians' hats with long wooden sticks.

However, Lincoln did not teach these naughty children a lesson, but only told them to be careful because it might make people angry.

This kind of doting also doomed his children to accomplish nothing.

Naturally, no one dared to do anything to Congressman Lincoln's family in history, but in this life, he offended the three largest local gangs because of a duel.

One hundred thousand dollars at that time was not a small number. Although it was just an insignificant income for Franz, it was the blood and sweat of the three major gangster families in Springfield.

And this account would not be recorded on Franz's head, nor on John Taylor's head, so it could only be recorded on Lincoln's head.

At the same time, the discussion about slavery was suppressed by another thing.

That was the threat from Texas. The French military strength in North America was actually greater than that of Mexico, especially in terms of threat.

The strength of the French army was still fresh in the memory of every American who participated in the Battle of Texas.

The French infantry could withstand the charge of the US cavalry, and the French cavalry could easily disperse the US infantry, especially when the cavalry of both sides charged, it was simply a massacre.