Muffin Stories - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln In November 1863, a great number of people attended a memorial service in order to commemorate those who had died in the Civil War. Soon a tall middle-aged man wearing whiskers stood on the platform and began to deliver an address. “We should make this country a country of freedom and equality so that government of the people, by the people, for the people should take root on this earth.“ The people shouted for joy all at once. The man was Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States who emancipated the slaves in the country. “Wah! Wah!“ A baby’s cry resounded throughout a small cabin in Kentucky in the United States in February 1809. People of the village went to the cabin to celebrate the birth of the baby. The baby’s father lifted him and said, “I’ll name him Abraham Lincoln after his grandfather. He’ll surely be a great man like his grandfather.“ Lincoln set up a new happy home after marr