Browsing named entities in 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. You can also browse the collection for Goddard or search for Goddard in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

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 9. (search)
while she owes the bank more than the whole revenue, and can pay that paper over on her debt, dollar for dollar;--still there is danger of loss to the officers of State : and you know, Jeff, we can't get along without officers of State. Damn officers of State! --says he; that's what Whigs are always hurrahing for. Now, don't swear so, Jeff, says I; you know I belong to the meetin‘, and swearin‘ hurts my feelings. Beg pardon, Aunt ‘Becca, says he; but I do say it's enough to make Dr. Goddard swear, to have tax to pay in silver, for nothing only that Ford may get his two thousand a year, and Shields his twenty-four hundred a year, and Carpenter his sixteen hundred a year, and all without danger of loss by taking it in State paper. Yes, yes: it's plain enough now what these officers of State mean by danger of loss. Wash, I s'pose, actually lost fifteen hundred dollars out of the three thousand that two of these officers of State let him steal from the treasury, by being compe<