The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . ly to makethe technical arr ument. Choice forthe forensic address, therefore, lay be-tween Lincoln and Stanton. The lat-ter was selected, to Mr. Lincolns keen disappointment Lincolns chagrin, moreover, was greatly in-tensified by Stantons behavior. Itwas not true, as has been generallyreported, that the man from Spring-field was elbowed out of the case byhis Eastern colleague; but there canbe no doubt that what at best was a mortifying experience forLincoln became doubly so by
The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . ly to makethe technical arr ument. Choice forthe forensic address, therefore, lay be-tween Lincoln and Stanton. The lat-ter was selected, to Mr. Lincolns keen disappointment Lincolns chagrin, moreover, was greatly in-tensified by Stantons behavior. Itwas not true, as has been generallyreported, that the man from Spring-field was elbowed out of the case byhis Eastern colleague; but there canbe no doubt that what at best was a mortifying experience forLincoln became doubly so by reason of the others rudeness. Ourprairie lawyer, though he ranked high at home, made a poorimpression upon Stanton, who described him, in his acrid way,as a long, lank creature from Illinois, wearing a dirtv linen dusterfor a coat, on the back of which the perspiration had splotchedwide stains that resembled a map of the continent. What wasworse, Mr. Stanton made no secret of his disdain. The object ofit heard him inquiring, Where did that long-armed creature comefrom, and what can he expect to do in this case?. rJf ???,?.? ^ :£> m
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