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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, Chapter 5. (search)
ds to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the county; and if elected they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate. But if, he dryly concludes, the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined. The election being near at hand only a few days remained for his canvass. One A. Y. Ellis, letter, June 5, 1866, Ms. who was with him at the time describing his appearance, says: He wore a mixed jeans coat, claw-hammer style, short in the sleeves and bobtail — in fact it was so short in the tail he could not sit on it; flax and tow-linen pantaloons, and a straw hat. I think he wore a vest, but do not remember how it looked. He wore pot-metal boots. His maiden effort on the stump was a speech on the occasion of a public sale at Pappsville, a village eleven miles west of Springfield. After the sa