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It was at Pappsville, twelve miles from Springfield, that he made his first campaign speech. He said: "Gentlemen and fellow-citizens "I presume you all know who I am. "I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the legislature. "My politics are short and sweet.
In April Abe wrote another address to the voters announcing that he was again a candidate for a seat in the Legislature. Late that month Harry walked with him to Pappsville where a crowd had assembled to attend a public sale. When the auctioneer had finished Abe made his first stump speech. A drunken man tried to divert attention to himself by sundry interruptions.
Lincoln's popularity among his comrades in the field was so great that at the close of his military service, which had lasted three months, he was nominated as a candidate for the State Legislature. "His first appearance on the stump in the course of the canvass was at Pappsville, about eleven miles west of Springfield, upon the occasion of a public sale.
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