Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln : by distinguished men of his time . nds to my side, just afterI had taken my usual seat at the dinner-table. TheProfessor was the most remote of the party, and thegentleman who sat next me had evidently partedfrom him before he left the Executive Chamber,and I could not help overhearing the conversationbetween them. Professor, said he, can you give me the im-pression President Lincoln made upon you ? Yes, said he; it was a very agreeable one. £V WILLIAM D. KELLEY. 291 Such a person is quite unknown to our official cir-cles or to those of Continental nations. I
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln : by distinguished men of his time . nds to my side, just afterI had taken my usual seat at the dinner-table. TheProfessor was the most remote of the party, and thegentleman who sat next me had evidently partedfrom him before he left the Executive Chamber,and I could not help overhearing the conversationbetween them. Professor, said he, can you give me the im-pression President Lincoln made upon you ? Yes, said he; it was a very agreeable one. £V WILLIAM D. KELLEY. 291 Such a person is quite unknown to our official cir-cles or to those of Continental nations. Indeed, Ithink his place in history will be unique. He hasnot been trained to diplomacy or administrativeaffairs, and is in all respects one of the people. Buthow wonderfully he is endowed and equipped for theperformance of the duties of the chief executive offi-cer of the United States at this time! The precisionand minuteness of his information on all questionsto which we referred was a succession of surprises tome. WILLIAM D. KELLEY. —?III! ^•??i; •!. 6Ja. Ci Ckj^ XV. Cassius M. Clay. WHILST I was a student in TransylvaniaUniversity at Lexington, Kentucky, themain building, including the dormitory, was burneddown, and I sought lodgings with Robert Todd andwife, where I became acquainted with Miss MaryTodd. Her elder sister married Ninian Edwards,of Illinois, where Miss Todd followed and marriedAbraham Lincoln. I was on very agreeable termswith the Todd family, who were always my avowedfriends during my antislavery career. So when Iwent to speak in the Fremont campaign at Spring-field, Illinois, in 1856, Abraham Lincoln and his lawpartner, O. S. Browning, called upon me. As I wasspeaking every day. I had but little time for socialintercourse. The feeling against the liberal move-ment was as violent then in the free as in the slaveStates. Lovejoy had been killed not long before atAlton, and the State House was refused me. But,as the weather was pleasant, I spoke, in the
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