. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery . e White House at will, a tricksy and restless spirit, aswell known to habitual visitors as the President stories might be told of the childs nativewit, his courage, his adventurousness, and his passionatedevotion to his father. He invaded cabinet councilswith his boyish griefs or tales of adventure, climbed in hisfathers lap when the President was engaged with affairsof state, and doubtless diverted and soothed the troubledmind of the President, who loved his boy with a certaintenderness that was inexpressible. It was
. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery . e White House at will, a tricksy and restless spirit, aswell known to habitual visitors as the President stories might be told of the childs nativewit, his courage, his adventurousness, and his passionatedevotion to his father. He invaded cabinet councilswith his boyish griefs or tales of adventure, climbed in hisfathers lap when the President was engaged with affairsof state, and doubtless diverted and soothed the troubledmind of the President, who loved his boy with a certaintenderness that was inexpressible. It was Tad, the mer-curial and irrepressible boy of the White House, onfriendly terms with the great and the lowly, who gave tothe executive mansion almost the only joyous note thatechoed through its corridors and stately drawing-roomsin those troublous times. The boy survived his father,dying at the age of eighteen years, after the family hadleft Washington. The President and Mrs. Lincoln usually addressed eachother in the old-fashioned manner as Father and. 1 PORTRAIT OF ROBERT LINCOLN. MRS. LINCOLN A21 Mother, and it was very seldom that Mrs. Lincolnspoke of her husband as the President. And Lincoln,on his part, never, if he could avoid it, spoke of himselfas President. If he had occasion to refer to his highoffice, he spoke of it as this place. When the occasionrequired, however, his native dignity asserted itself, and acertain simple and yet influential grandeur was manifestedin his deportment and demeanor. One soon forgot in hisimmediate presence the native ungainliness of his figure,and felt that he was in the personal atmosphere of one ofthe worlds great men. Although Lincoln was genial andfree in his manners, even with strangers, there was some-thing in his bearing that forbade familiarity. Much hasbeen said about his disregard for dress and personal ap-pearance, but much of this is erroneous. He was neat inhis person, scrupulously so, and his garb was that of agentleman alw
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