Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Clinton, Illinois” in chapter 12 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:
...rred from this that Lincoln was in the habit of slopping over.
He never hunted up acts of injustice, but if they came to him he was easily enlisted.
In 1855 he was attending court at the town of Clinton, Illinois . Fifteen ladies from a neighboring village in the county had been indicated for trespass.
Their offence consisted in sweeping down on one Tanner, the keeper of a saloon in the village, and knocking...
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