Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Political Career Through 1860: Kansas-Nebraska Controversy; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources; From the Files of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection He was cordially welcomed by Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln as an intimate friend of the Todd Family. When Cassius was a student in Transylvania University at Lexington the main dormitory of the institution burned to the ground and -the students found lodging in the homes of the people. Cassius, whose people then lived in Madison County, secured accommodations in the home of Robert Todd and here he became acquainted with their daughter Mary who married Lincoln. In a brief sketch of the early days Cassius said that I was on very agreeable terms with the Todd family, who were always my avowed friends during my antislavery career. Cassius Marcellus Clay later entered Yale where he graduated in 1832. He. Came under the influence of William 'lloyd Garrison and imbibed much of the aboli tion philosophy of the reformer. He entered politics in Kentucky and was elected to the legislature. On June 3, 1845 he issued at Lexington the first number of The True American, an anti-slavery paper. Threatened by mob violence he fortified his office with two four pounder brass cannon, loaded and mounted them breast high in his office, wore a bowie-knife and kept a brace of pistols in the mouth of his grip sack which he kept at his feet by his desk. 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.