They were obviously weary and hungry.

Extreme poverty could present no sadder picture.

"Mother," cried the girl, "there goes the man I am going to marry." She was thought to be in jest.
But a few years later she made her banter good and lived to see her husband President of the United States and with him to occupy the White House at Washington.
Much has been written of the humble birth and iron fortune of Abraham Lincoln.

He had no such obstacles to overcome as either Andrew Jackson or Andrew Johnson.

Jackson, a prisoner of war, was liberated, a lad of sixteen, from the British pen at Charleston, without a relative, a friend or a dollar in the world, having to make his way upward through the most aristocratic community of the country and the time.