Sentence examples for rail-splitter from inspiring English sources

Lincoln was known as the Rail-Splitter.

As a rail-splitter, he helped to clear and fence his father's new farm.

Virtually none of Egypt's counties supported their state's Rail-splitter for president, and one reported to Gov. Richard Yates that "Some of them say … they are going to hang cut throts [sic] and shoot every Republican in Egypt".

We have "Honest Abe," the great rail-splitter of American legend, Lincoln the political operative and architect of the Republican Party, and Lincoln the savvy wielder of executive power as portrayed in Steven Spielberg's recent film.

February 12 , 1809near Hodgenville, Kentucky April 15, 1865 Washington, D.C., United States Abraham Lincoln, byname Honest Abe, the Rail-Splitter, or the Great Emancipator (born February 12 , 1809 near Hodgenville, Kentucky, U.S. died April 15 , 1865 Washington, D.C).

On Oct. 11, 1860, the New York Times editorial page threw its hat behind a "Mr. Lincoln, of Illinois, familiarly known as 'Old Abe,' age 51, height six feet seven, by profession Rail-Splitter".

Brady knew precisely how to frame Lincoln, the supposedly rural rail splitter, posing him with his hand resting on two well-read tomes atop a classical pillar.

Other famous nicknames and catchphrases, like "Old Hickory," "Free Soil and Free Speech" (for John Charles Frémont) and "The Great Rail Splitter," were emblazoned on everything from handbills to lanterns.

Jonathan H. Mann, who edits The Rail Splitter, a journal for Lincoln aficionados, has organized "Abraham Lincoln in New York," to run through the end of June at Federal Hall on Wall Street.

The contrast between the figure of Davis in women's clothes and the fair's exhibit of Abraham Lincoln items, including his boyhood log cabin home and souvenirs from his funeral, underlined for Northerners the contrasts between the characters of the so-called Belle of Richmond and their martyred Illinois Rail Splitter.

Douglass For John Hanks, Lincoln Really Was Honest Abe On July 28 , 1860 The Rail Splitter, a pro-Lincoln campaign newspaper, reprinted a letter from The Decatur Chronicle by John Hanks, Lincoln's cousin and former partner in the rail-splitting business.