Abraham Lincoln came into the world, much the same world, that Thomas Jefferson had known, the old slow moving world of sails and horses. Just nine years after George Washington's life was over, Abraham Lincoln's life began on a Sunday morning, the twelfth day of the month of February in the year 1809. (1) By then, nine years of a new century had passed into history, and a new age had begun. Many of the Revolutionary War generation still survived.
In fact, Thomas Jefferson was in ...