Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. . band she had sacrificedto secure the Nations independence. He had the grati-fication of paying back to her a hundred dollars, andsending her home rejoicing. Lincoln Threatens a Twenty Years Agitation in Illinois. One afternoon an old negro woman came into the of-fice of Lincoln & Herndon, in Springfield, and told thestory of her trouble, to which both lawyers listened. Itappeared that she and her offspring had been born slavesin Kentucky, and that h
Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. . band she had sacrificedto secure the Nations independence. He had the grati-fication of paying back to her a hundred dollars, andsending her home rejoicing. Lincoln Threatens a Twenty Years Agitation in Illinois. One afternoon an old negro woman came into the of-fice of Lincoln & Herndon, in Springfield, and told thestory of her trouble, to which both lawyers listened. Itappeared that she and her offspring had been born slavesin Kentucky, and that her owner, one Hinkle, hadbrought the whole family into Illinois, and given themthem their freedom. Her son had gone down the Mis- 102 LINCOLN S STORIES AND SPEECHES. sissippi as a waiter or deck hand, on a steamboat. Ar-riving at New Orleans, he had imprudently gone ashore,and had been snatched up by the police, in accordancewith the law then in force concerning free negroes fromother States, and thrown into confinement. Subsequent-ly, he was brought out and tried. Of course he wasfined, and, the boat having left, he was sold, or was in. W. H. HERNDON, LINCOLNS LAW PARTNER. immediate danger of being sold, to pay his fine and ex-penses. Mr. Lincoln was very much moved, and re-quested Mr. Herndon to go over to the State House, andinquire of Governor Bissel if there was not something hecould do to obtain possession of the negro. Mr. Hern-don made the inquiry, and returned with the report that PROFESSIONAL LIFE. IO3 the Governor regretted to say that he had no legal orconstitutional right to do anything in the premises. rose to his feet in great excitement and ex-claimed: By the Almighty, Ill have that negro back here, orIll have a twenty years agitation in Illinois, until theGovernor does have a legal and constitutional right todo something in the premises. He was saved from the latter alternative—at least inthe direct form which he proposed. The lawyers sentmoney to
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