Author: Lincoln Financial Foundation

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-04-28

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9780365909873

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Contemporaries: John Tyler; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources With shattered health, he retired to private life at the age of 30, only to be called by the mandate of the people at 35 to the gubernatorial honors of this historic Commonwealth; and, brief though his tenure was, his instinct for constructive action served his people well. He found that the mountains raised a barrier 'between the people of the East and West; his was the dream to circumvent the mountains and thus make for the greater spiritual solidarity of Virginia. Under the pressure and inspiration of his leadership the sections were closer knit by the canals and roads he 'built. But to me, more important than his plan for the material im provement of Virginia, was his dream of extending the blessings of education to every son and. Daughter of the soil through the creation of a system of public schools. Jefferson, long before him, 'had had this dream and failed, and Tyler carried on and failed, but it was from the seed sown and tended by the Jeffersons and Tylers that ultimately was to spring the great public-school system of Virginia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.