. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . BV R. G. TIETZE JOSHUA R. GIDDIXGS. AFTER A PHOTOGRAPH BY practiced by others, but he never could get in when he could consistently with the rules of the way of handling them for himself. On his profession. He would often persuade a the wrong side he was always weak. He fair-minded litigant of the injustice of his case knew this himself, and avoided such cases and induce him to give it up. His partner. 542 ABRAHAM DAVID WILMOT. (AFTER A LITHOGRAPH BY M. H. TRAlBEL.) Mr. Herndon, relates a speech in point*which Lincoln once
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . BV R. G. TIETZE JOSHUA R. GIDDIXGS. AFTER A PHOTOGRAPH BY practiced by others, but he never could get in when he could consistently with the rules of the way of handling them for himself. On his profession. He would often persuade a the wrong side he was always weak. He fair-minded litigant of the injustice of his case knew this himself, and avoided such cases and induce him to give it up. His partner. 542 ABRAHAM DAVID WILMOT. (AFTER A LITHOGRAPH BY M. H. TRAlBEL.) Mr. Herndon, relates a speech in point*which Lincoln once made to a man who of-fered him an objectionable case : Yes, thereis no reasonable doubt but that I can gain yourcase for you. I can set a whole neighborhoodat loggerheads; I can distress a widowedmother and her six fatherless children, andthereby get for you six hundred dollars, whichrightfully belongs, it appears to me, as muchto them as it does to you. I shall not take your case, but I will give a little advice for to their singular ability and power. He seemednothing. You seem a sprightly, energetic absolutely at home in a court-room; hisman. I would advise you to try your hand great stature did not encumber him there; itat making six hundred dollars in some other seemed like a natural symbol of superiority. Hisway. Sometimes, after he had entered upon bearing and gesticulation had no awkward-a criminal case, the conviction that his client ness about them ; they were simpl
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