Lincoln and the Railroads by John W. Starr Jr Hard Cover 1927

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Hard Cover

By John W. Starr Jr.

325 Pages

PREFACE

Amid the voluminous literature concerning Lincoln-just how voluminous only those of us who have spent many years in the collecting of Lincolniana can appreciate-there is no concrete document, aside from the present one, which deals with the man in his relation to the railroads. Yet the facts of his life furnish many curious parallels with them.

American railroads are just one hundred years old. The first feeble lines were pushing their uncertain way across the Alleghenies and into the Middle West when the gangly young "rail-splitter" was growing to manhood. As a green legislator in Illinois he helped to promote the vicious legislation which went into the laws of the state, for excessive and unwise railroad building. As a rising lawyer some of his best clients were the railroads ; although at times he appeared against them. He "chalked his hat," or traveled on passes habitually. He was tempted with an offer from the New York Central, which, if accepted, would have changed his entire political career. He was a guiding spirit behind the first line to the Far West-the Union Pacific-and he helped determine its gauge, which became the standard gauge of the country. In the famous Rock Island Bridge case, he enunciated a right for common carriers which has become an accepted doctrine.

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