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The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Abe Puts the foot down Firmly again. (search)
Abe Puts the foot down Firmly again. --Mrs. Buckley, a New. York Fifth Avenue lady, went to Washington lately — before Manassas was fought, be assured — to procure a reprieve for Collins, Featherstone and Dunleavy, convicted of the murder of George W. Pike, captain of the ship General Parkhill. --The interview between herself and Lincoln is thus described in a letter to the Boston Journal. Abe, it will be seen, adheres to his maxim, that it "is necessary to put the foot down firmly sometimes," notwithstanding he has been admonished so often of the danger of planting his preposterous and cumbersome feet upon hot places: On gaining an interview, she said to the President that she had come to place before him some of the circumstances connected with the case of the unfortunate men imprisoned in the Toombs in New York, and that she hoped-- As she uttered these words, Mr. Lincoln involuntarily started back, and with a manner that expressed the greatest determination and fir