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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xli. (search)
eech you are to make to-day to the Swiss minister. Mr. Lincoln laid down his pen, and, taking the manuscript, said in a loud tone: Oh, this is a speech Mr. Seward has written for me, is it? I guess I will try it before these gentlemen, and see how it goes. Thereupon he proceeded to read it, in a waggish manner, remarking, as he concluded, with sly humor: There, I like that. It has the merit of originality. Within a month after Mr. Lincoln's first accession to office, says the Hon. Mr. Raymond, when the South was threatening civil war, and armies of office-seekers were besieging him in the Executive Mansion, he said to a friend that he wished he could get time to attend to the Southern question; he thought he knew what was wanted, and believed he could do something towards quieting the rising discontent; but the office-seekers demanded all his time. I am, said he, like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is