This short feature is mostly fiction. While it's aim - to persuade anyone disheartened to hang in there-- is praiseworthy, it plays pretty fast and loose with the life of Abraham Lincoln. Far from being a failure, Lincoln at 50 was a successful family man and corporate lawyer, who lived in one of the nicest houses in Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln's family life is simply ignored. He served four terms in the state legislature and was elected to Congress in 1846, achievements which are also ignored. This little bit of Hollywood hokum probably had them weeping in the aisles between features in the 1940s. In the north at least. One suspects it was an omitted reel down South. There's plenty to admire about the Railsplitter without resorting to yarn-spinning.