Significados de rail-splitter em inglês

With the triumph of the rail-splitter, Lincoln, the seat of power is transferred to the North.

The rail-splitter became President of the United States, and Senator Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, Vice President.

The next November Abraham Lincoln, "the Illinois rail-splitter," was elected President of the United States.

As a rail-splitter he had no equal.

This rail-splitter, a true-born king of men.

It seemed to him quite an improvement on being a farm- hand, a flat-boatman, or a rail-splitter.

The young rail-splitter had also a knack of slaughtering hogs, for which he received thirty cents a day.

He looked like a common rail-splitter.

What they seemed proudest of was that he had been a rail-splitter, for nearly all bore a fence-rail.

They disliked to hear so much about "honest Old Abe," "the rail-splitter," "the flat-boatman," "the pioneer."

James Buchanan was now a private citizen and the pioneer rail-splitter was at the head of the United States.

Butler was a farmer, Hugh Miller a stone-cutter, Abraham Lincoln a rail-splitter, and James Garfield was a canal boy.

This rail-splitter, this postmaster, this flat-boatman, whom he had not credited with a knowledge of the New Code, was talking Astronomy.

No more illustrious example of success won by the exercise of common virtues can be offered than Abraham Lincoln, rail-splitter and president.

Many, no doubt, were full of curiosity to see the now famous rail-splitter, but all were outspoken and earnest in their assurances of support.

Thunderous cheers for "the rail-splitter" resounded, for this slur on the statesman had recoiled on aspersers and was used as a title of honor.