Title: WHY DID ABRAHAM LINCOLN FREE THE SLAVES?
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Content: That's how he got the nickname of "The Rail Splitter." Denton Offutt hired Lincoln to help work in his store when they returned from New Orleans and this was where Lincoln got his second nick-name. A man overpaid Lincoln four cents and was gone before Lincoln noticed the mistake. Before Lincoln went home that night he walked four miles to give the man back his four cents. Things like that eventually earned him the nickname of "Honest Abe," a nick-name he hated. He hated the name "Abe." Nobody who knew him called him Abe! In fact, his future wife Mary Todd always called him "Mr. Lincoln" or "Father." When writing to his friends, he signed his name "A. Lincoln." Interestingly enough, Lincoln's honesty didn't help Offutt, his store went bankrupt within a year of hiring Lincoln.