Jefferson Vs. Lincoln

One transition I noticed between the American Dream of Jefferson to the one upheld by Lincoln was the role of personal property.  We learned last semester about how Jefferson valued a landed aristocracy, but Lincoln's approach is much different, although land has not disappeared from the dream.  Lincoln's description of Upward Mobility, quoted at the bottom of page 84 by Cullen, describes a man who "has got no soil nor shop."  This new appeal to the common people, made feasible by Jackson's democracy, represents a new sort of dream, but not one that Jefferson would find entirely unfamiliar.  After all, Lincoln's humble workman still finds himself with land and family, but instead of slaves this new man tends his land with hired labor, not slaves.  Lincoln's example serves as a sort of bridge linking today's capitalism back to the founding fathers through Jefferson.