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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xxv. (search)
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Dr. Holland, in his Life of Abraham Lincoln, I regret to observe, has thought it worth while to notice the reports, which in one way and another have obtained circulation, that the President habitually indulged, in ordinary conversation, in a class of objectionable stories.
The biographer, it is true, attempts to palliate this, on the ground that it was no innate love of impurity which prompted such relations, but a keen relish for wit, in any form, the lack of refining influences in early life, and his experience as a lawyer, which necessarily induced professional familiarity with the foulest phases of human nature.
The fault is a common one with many men of otherwise unblemished reputation, and cannot be too severely reprehended.
The sooner, however, such things can be forgotten, of neighbor, friend, or President, the better.
Weaknesses and blemishes are inseparable from common humanity in the present stage of its development; and though, like the spots on the sun, th
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lvi. (search)
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lxxv. (search)
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it was not generally known before the publication of Dr. Holland's biography of Mr. Lincoln, that he was once engaged in a duel, although a version of the affair had been published previous to his biographer's account of it, which, however, the few who saw it were disposed to regard as a fabrication.
One evening, at the rooms of the Hon. I. N. Arnold, of Illinois, I met Dr. Henry, of Oregon, an early and intimate friend of Mr. Lincoln's. Mr. Arnold asked me in the course of conversation if I had ever heard of the President's duel with General Shields?
I replied that I might have seen a statement of the kind, but did not suppose it to be true.
Well, said Mr. Arnold, we were all young folks together at the time in Springfield.
In some way a difficulty occurred between Shields and Lincoln, resulting in a challenge from Shields, which was at length accepted, Mr. Lincoln naming broadswords for weapons, and the two opposite banks of the Mississippi, where the river was ab
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Index. (search)