Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln : by distinguished men of his time . s said of a certain man that if he wouldalways follow his nose he would never stick fast inthe mud. Well, when the rains set in it will be im- BY R. E. FENTOX. 75 possible for even our eager and gallant soldiers tokeep their noses so high that their feet will notstick in the clay mud of Old Virginia. I have givenvery nearly the words of Mr. Lincoln. His felicityin stating a case and his good sense always im-pressed me, and my memory loses nothing in vivid-ness with the lapse of years. The Congress was adjourned for the holid
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln : by distinguished men of his time . s said of a certain man that if he wouldalways follow his nose he would never stick fast inthe mud. Well, when the rains set in it will be im- BY R. E. FENTOX. 75 possible for even our eager and gallant soldiers tokeep their noses so high that their feet will notstick in the clay mud of Old Virginia. I have givenvery nearly the words of Mr. Lincoln. His felicityin stating a case and his good sense always im-pressed me, and my memory loses nothing in vivid-ness with the lapse of years. The Congress was adjourned for the holidayperiod quite as early and quite as long as usual, not-withstanding pressing public affairs were requiringthe attention of the law-making power. When it re-assembled—January 5th, as I remember—the rain hadcome, the Virginia roads were well-nigh impassable,and the army was still in and around , to move then was to stick fast in the mud,and the Congress and the country reluctantly be-came reconciled, in a measure, to the situation. R. E. V. J. p. Usher. Without doubt the greatest man of rebellion times, the one matchlessamong forty millions for the peculiar difficulties of the period, was AbrahamLincoln. James Longstreet. MR. LINCOLNS greatness was founded uponhis devotion to truth, his humanity and hisinnate sense of justice to all. In his career as a lawyer, he traversed a widerange of territory in Illinois ; he attended manycourts and had many professional engagements,some remunerative and others not. In all his con-flicts at the bar, wherein it may be said he was suc-cessful in every case that he ought to have been, henever inflicted an unnecessary wound upon an ad-versary, and no one ever thought of uttering a rudeword to him. He affected no superior wisdom overhis fellows, yet he was often appealed to by thejudge to say what rule of law ought to be applied ina given case, and what disposition the parties oughtto make of it, and his opinion, wh
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