Life on the Circuit with Lincoln: With Sketches of Generals Grant, Sherman and McClellan, Judge Davis, Leonard Swett, and Other Contemporaries"Originally commenced as a pastime, and to please a circle of friends alone, success, in any degree, can only be hoped for, because of my vantage ground as an intimate and close friend of Mr. Lincoln, and because, by reason of such intimacy, of the novelty of some of the facts and deductions, and not, in any sense, by reason, but in spite of, its literary style or, rather, the lack thereof."--Preface. |
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... asked why he chose broad- swords in his proposed duel with Shields , to which Lincoln replied : " To tell you the truth , Linder , I didn't want to kill Shields , and felt sure I could disarm him , having had about a month to learn the ...
... asked why he chose broad- swords in his proposed duel with Shields , to which Lincoln replied : " To tell you the truth , Linder , I didn't want to kill Shields , and felt sure I could disarm him , having had about a month to learn the ...
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... asked he . " Yes , your Honor , all is regular . " " Mr. Sheriff , call John Smith . " " Jaw Smy - Jaw Smy - Jaw Smy , " said the Sheriff per- functorily . No answer . " Judgment by default : clerk assess damages , " said the Judge ...
... asked he . " Yes , your Honor , all is regular . " " Mr. Sheriff , call John Smith . " " Jaw Smy - Jaw Smy - Jaw Smy , " said the Sheriff per- functorily . No answer . " Judgment by default : clerk assess damages , " said the Judge ...
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... asked him if he , at that time , had ex- pected to be a lawyer and practice law in that Court House ; to which he replied : " No : I didn't know I had sense enough to be a lawyer then . " He then told me he had frequently thereafter ...
... asked him if he , at that time , had ex- pected to be a lawyer and practice law in that Court House ; to which he replied : " No : I didn't know I had sense enough to be a lawyer then . " He then told me he had frequently thereafter ...
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... asking them , " I replied . " I believe I will , " said he , at last ; and he left me to perform his errand . In fifteen or twenty minutes he came back , his face radiant with happiness ; he had found two delegates from Marion County ...
... asking them , " I replied . " I believe I will , " said he , at last ; and he left me to perform his errand . In fifteen or twenty minutes he came back , his face radiant with happiness ; he had found two delegates from Marion County ...
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... asked no man to endorse for him if he solicited aid in his political projects , as he frequently did , it was not by cajolery , or as a special favor to him , but that the great cause at issue might be fostered and promoted , and he put ...
... asked no man to endorse for him if he solicited aid in his political projects , as he frequently did , it was not by cajolery , or as a special favor to him , but that the great cause at issue might be fostered and promoted , and he put ...
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Page 281 - Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment...
Page 568 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 208 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.
Page 278 - That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
Page 568 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 312 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Page 389 - Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is Just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Page 468 - Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days surviving perils past, • Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die ; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
Page 350 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be
Page 464 - I SAW him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through Mie town.