Although he had no idea of it at the time, Abraham Lincoln took part in a grander movement than the removal of a State capital. Resolutions were adopted in the Legislature in favor of slavery and denouncing the hated "abolitionists"--or people who spoke and wrote for the abolition of slavery. It required true heroism for a young man thus to stand out against the legislators of his State, but Abe Lincoln seems to have thought little of that. The hatred of the people for any one who opposed slavery was very bitter. Lincoln found one man, named Stone, who was willing to sign a protest against the resolutions favoring slavery, which read as follows: "Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same. "They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy. [After several statements of their belief concerning the powers of Congress, the protest closed as follows:] "The difference between their opinions and those contained in the said resolution is their reason for entering this protest. "DAN STONE, "A. LINCOLN." CHAPTER XIV MOVING TO SPRINGFIELD New Salem could no longer give young Lincoln scope for his growing power and influence. Within a few weeks after the Lincoln-Stone protest, late in March, 1837, after living six years in the little village which held so much of life and sorrow for him, Abe sold his surveying compass, marking-pins, chain and pole, packed all his effects into his saddle-bags, borrowed a horse of his good friend "Squire" Bowling Green, and reluctantly said good-bye to his friends there. It is a strange fact that New Salem ceased to exist within a year from the day "Honest Abe" left it. Even its little post office was discontinued by the Government. Henry C. Whitney, who was associated with Lincoln in those early days, describes Abe's modest entry into the future State capital, with all his possessions in a pair of saddle-bags, and calling at the store of Joshua F. Speed, overlooking "the square," in the following dialogue: Speed--"Hello, Abe, just from Salem?" Lincoln--"Howdy, Speed! Yes, this is my first show-up." Speed--"So you are to be one of us?" Lincoln--"I reckon so, if you will let me take pot luck with you." Speed--"All right, Abe; it's better than Salem." Lincoln--"I've been to Gorman's and got a single bedstead; now you figure out what it will cost for a tick, blankets and so forth." Speed (after figuring)--"Say, seventeen dollars or so." Lincoln (countenance paling)--"I had no _idea_ it would cost half that, and I--I can't pay it; but if you can wait on me till Christmas, and I make anything, I'll pay; if I don't, I can't."