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He grew up a rail-splitter clearing land on the frontier.

Smith is likened to Honest Abe, the humble rail-splitter who overturned the slave power by announcing the axiomatic truth of human equality.

The populist mythology surrounding Abraham Lincoln was not only the rail-splitter born in a log cabin, but the youth who studied books by candlelight.

Since the recession, Hogan argues, we’re even more likely to hold up figures like Lincoln — a rail-splitter who made it all the way to the Oval Office – as the embodiment of American pluck.

With one hand on each shoulder, she planted her knee in the middle of his back, and dexterously brought the powerful frame of the rail-splitter to the ground.