Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Tazewell county” in chapter 11 of William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik:
...l then; for before I will give a verdict against her I will lie here till I rot and the pismires carry me out through the key-hole.
Now, observed Lincoln, if that juryman will stick like the man in Tazewell county we are safe.
Strange to relate, the jury did come in, and with a verdict for the defendant.
Lincoln always regarded this as one of the gratifying triumphs of his professional life.
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