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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House 2 0 Browse Search
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 2 0 Browse Search
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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xlviii. (search)
ne and Journal, (the latter valued chiefly for the letters of its war correspondent, B. F. Taylor); the St. Louis Republican and Democrat; and the Cincinnati Gazette and Commercial. Violent criticism, attacks, and denunciations, coming either from radicals or conservatives, rarely ruffled the President, if they reached his ears. It must have been in connection with something of this kind, that he once told me this story. Some years ago, said he, a couple of emigrants, fresh from the Emerald Isle, seeking labor, were making their way toward the West. Coming suddenly, one evening, upon a pond of water, they were greeted with a grand chorus of bull-frogs,a kind of music they had never before heard. B-a-u-m! --B-a-u-m! Overcome with terror, they clutched their shillelahs, and crept cautiously forward, straining their eyes in every direction, to catch a glimpse of the enemy; but he was not to be found! At last a happy idea seized the foremost one,--he sprang to his companion and e