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than they did before. After he was elected we would Hornetirues address him as “ Mr. President.”or glad to shake the hand of our President.”*—“ Well, yes, I suppose so,” he would say. 44 I shall have to go and leave you before long You must call and see me when I am living in the big house.” He was so common, bo kind, so child-like, that 1 don’t believe there was one in this city hut what loved him as a father or brother. He was a very liberal man, to much so, perhaps, for lii« own good, I am one of the Trusstees of the First Haptist Church, and although Mr. Lincoln was not an attendant with our congregation, lie would always give $15, $20 or $25 every year to help support the minister. There was considerable talk here about Mrs Lincoln** bad temper, she wan very irritible and would often say things she would afterwards he sorry for. I have often heard her say to Mr. Lincoln,“ Why don't you dress up and try and look like somebody.” Some times she would get in a stew and refuse to get his meals for him 1 was one morning in an eating saloon round in Monroe street, fixing up a counter, when Mr. Lincoln and bis oldest son Robert, then only a little hoy, came in and ordered breakfast. After the meal was served, Mr Lincoln, leaning hack in his chair and commencing to pick his teeth, says to the boy, who had not quite finished, 44 Well Robby, this hain,t so very bad after nil, is it? If ma don’t conclude to let us come hack, we will hoard here all summer.” He never seemed to he the leant rufiled—always calm and pleasant. Lincoln was sitting in the telegraph otllco talking with everybody around him, as usual, when the dispatch came announcing his nomination to the Presidency by the Chicago Convention.— After the despatch was read, Mr. i Lincoln gets up and say* : 14 There's ai1 a woman over to my house who, I P( guess, would he pleased to hear that P€ I hit of news. PH walk over and tell I it to her. lie was never cast down , by adversity, never elated by suc-i cess. The gentleman I am indebted i to for this conversation is named Page Katon.
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Wilmington Independent
Wilmington, Illinois, US
Wed, Jul 22, 1868
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