. Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's stories : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House stories, war stories, miscellaneous stories. ed that you wereaccustomed to think so much upon this class of subjects;certainly your friends generally are ignorant of the senti-ments you have expressed to me. He replied quickly: Iknow they are, but I think more on these subjects thanupon all others, and I have done so for years;«and I amwilling you should know it. When his clients had practiced gross deception upon him,Mr. Lincoln forsook their cases in mid-passage; and he
. Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's stories : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House stories, war stories, miscellaneous stories. ed that you wereaccustomed to think so much upon this class of subjects;certainly your friends generally are ignorant of the senti-ments you have expressed to me. He replied quickly: Iknow they are, but I think more on these subjects thanupon all others, and I have done so for years;«and I amwilling you should know it. When his clients had practiced gross deception upon him,Mr. Lincoln forsook their cases in mid-passage; and he al-ways refused to accept fees of those whom he advised notto prosecute. On one occasion, while engaged upon animportant case, he discovered that he was on the wrongside. His associate in the case was immediately informedthat he (Lincoln) would not make the plea. The associatemade it, and the case, much to the surprise of Lincoln, wasdecided for his client. Perfectly convinced that his clientwas wrong, he would not receive one cent of the fee ofnine hundred dollars which he paid. It is not wonderfulthat one who knew him well spoke of him as perverselyhonest. k. [UBITBD STATES CAPITOL.] ynX^^Jy^^US^- ^FG^ENTS. 85 WHITE-HOTJSE INCIDENTS. Trying the Greens on Jake—A Serious Experiment. A deputation of bankers were •ne day introduced tothe President by the Secretary of the Treasury. One of the party, Mr, P of Chelsea, Mass., took occasion to refer to the severity of the tax laid by Congress upon theState Banks. Now, said Mr. Lincoln, that reminds me of a cir-cumstance that took place in a neighborhood where I livedwhen I was a boy. In the spring of the year the farmerswere very fond of the dish which they called greens,though the fashionable name for it now-a-days is spinach,1 believe. One day after dinner, a large family were takenvery ill. The doctor was called in, who attributed it to thegreens, of which all had freely partaken. Living in thefamily was a half-witted boy na
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