Montgomery County Sentinel

Abraham Lincoln is a man of fifty one years of age, who in early life was in humble circumstances, and got part of his living by splitting rails. "Old Abe, the Illinois rail-splitter," is what they call him out West, and the rails which he split are now in a fence on a farm near Chicago. One of these rails has already been taken to Ohio, and it is said Tom Corwin will stump the State, carrying the rail on his shoulder. A letter from Illinois says:

"The old fence at Decatur is being bought up at ten dollars per rail, and forwarded by express to all parts of the country. The lucky owner of the timber has turned his possession to account rather more sharply than was fitting the occasion, but nothing can frustrate the irrepressible desire for "those rails."

Major Eggleston, president of the Cincinnati board of trade, paid his twenty dollars for a pair of them."