. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . idered proper and necessaryin older communities. The bar in greatmeasure was composed of the samemen who used to follow the circuit onhorseback, over roads impossible towheels, with their scanty wardrobes,their lawr-books, and their documentscrowding each other in their leather saddle-bags. The improvement of roads which madecarriages a possibility had effected a greatchange, and the coming of the railway hadcompleted the sudden development of themanners and customs of the modernized com-munity. But they could not all at once takefrom the ba
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . idered proper and necessaryin older communities. The bar in greatmeasure was composed of the samemen who used to follow the circuit onhorseback, over roads impossible towheels, with their scanty wardrobes,their lawr-books, and their documentscrowding each other in their leather saddle-bags. The improvement of roads which madecarriages a possibility had effected a greatchange, and the coming of the railway hadcompleted the sudden development of themanners and customs of the modernized com-munity. But they could not all at once takefrom the bar of the Eighth Circuit its raci-ness and its individuality. The men who hadlived in log-cabins, who had hunted their waythrough untrodden woods and prairies, whohad thought as much about the chances ofswimming over swollen fords as of their cases,who had passed their nights—a half-dozentogether—on the floors of wayside hostelries,could never be precisely the same sort of * I. X. Arnold, in History of Sangamon County,p. 94. 53S ABRAHAM DAVID DAVIS. (1862-66.) (AFTER A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRADY.) practitioners as the smug barristers of a moreconventional age and place. But they werenot deficient in ability, in learning, or in thatmost valuable faculty which enables really in-telligent men to get their bearings and sus-tain themselves in every sphere of life towhich they may be called. Some of these verycolleagues of Lincoln at the Springfield barhave sat in Cabinets, have held their own onthe floor of the Senate, have led armies in thefield, have governed States, and all with a quietself-reliance which was as far as possible re-moved from either undue arrogance or unduemodesty.* Among these able and energetic men Lin-< oln assumed and held the first rank. This isa statement which ought not to be made with-out authority, and rather than give the com-mon repute of the < ircuit, we prefer to cite theopinion of those lawyers of Illinois who are entitled to speak as to
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