. "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller [excerpts]. ave ever known, although he was entirely unschooled in themachinery by which political results are achieved. His judgment of menwas next to unerring, and when results were to be attained he knew themen who should be assigned to the task, and he rarely made a mistake. I remember one occasion when he summoned Colonel Forney and my-self to confer on some political problem, he opened the conversation bysaying: You know that I never was
. "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller [excerpts]. ave ever known, although he was entirely unschooled in themachinery by which political results are achieved. His judgment of menwas next to unerring, and when results were to be attained he knew themen who should be assigned to the task, and he rarely made a mistake. I remember one occasion when he summoned Colonel Forney and my-self to confer on some political problem, he opened the conversation bysaying: You know that I never was much of a conniver; I dont know themethods of political management, and I can only trust to the wisdom ofleaders to accomplish what is needed. Lincolns public acts are familiar to every school boy of the nation, buthis personal attributes, which are so strangely distinguished from the at-tributes of other great men, are now the most interesting study of youngand old throughout our land, and I can conceive of no more acceptablepresentation to the public than a compilation of anecdotes and incidentspertaining to the life of the greatest of all our Tilivi dMjA^, >^^t^^ ( 6-. f ^ ^ ^ INDEX TO FULL PAGE PORTRAITS OF MEN OF LINCOLNS TIME. PACK Henry Ward Beecher Great Pulpit Orator 477 Benjamin F. Butler Union General 423 Simon Cameron Lincolns First Secretary of War 153 Salmon Portland Chase Chief Justice United States Supreme Court 154 Schuyler Colfax Vice-President Grants First Term 406 Charles A. Dana Assistant to Secretary of War Stanton. 352 Jefferson Davis President Confederate States 189 Stephen A. Douglas United States Senator, Illinois 81 Frederick Douglass Colored Orator 460 Edward Everett Famous Orator 478 David Glasgow Farragut First American Admiral 334 William Lloyd Garrison Abolition Advocate 405 Horace Greeley Editor Nczv York Tribune 351 U. S. Grant ... .* Eighteenth President United States. .. 207 Hannibal Hamlin Vice-President Lincolns First Term.
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