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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 10. (search)
urney to Washington and incidents. return to Illinois. settling down to practice law. life on theln's first appearance in the Supreme Court of Illinois. professional honor and personal honesty. tlitionist came to take part in the canvass in Illinois, he early sought out Lincoln, with whom he had to this step by many of his Whig friends in Illinois, but he was so hedged about with other aspirl have trouble to get it for any other man in Illinois. The reason is that McGaughey, an Indiana exthe landlord, who he was. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, a member of Congress, was the response. I whange in the law, and more in the lawyers, of Illinois. The conviction had settled in the minds of used in this book, refers to that portion of Illinois which lies south of the famous National Road.new one to the Circuit and District Courts of Illinois. I am very friendly to the present incumbentln's first appearance in the Supreme Court of Illinois. A case being called for hearing, Mr. Lincoln[1 more...]
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 11. (search)
eeting with Edwin M. Stanton. defense of William Armstrong. last law-suit in Illinois. the dinner at Arnold's in Chicago. A law office is a dull, dry place so f at the bar. He was greatest in my opinion as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of Illinois. There the cases were never hurried. The attorneys generally prepared their d Virginia. But now she is poor and defenceless. Out here on the prairies of Illinois, many hundreds of miles away from the scenes of her childhood, she appeals to n recommended to Manny by E. B. Washburne, then a member of Congress from northern Illinois. The case was to be tried before Judge McLean at Cincinnati, in the Circrusque and abrupt way, it is said, described him as a long, lank creature from Illinois, wearing a dirty linen duster for a coat, on the back of which the perspiratiotable will and self-confidence, he gained such ascendency among the lawyers of Illinois. The reader is enabled thereby to understand the philosophy of his growth.
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 12. (search)
of Trumbull. interview with the Governor of Illinois. the outrages in the territories. Lincoln'sentiment could find lodgement in any paper in Illinois, although he knew full well how the whole thhields, who was then one of the senators from Illinois. His canvass for that exalted office was marf an obscure little country newspaper in southern Illinois in which he warms up to him in the follobehalf. We went first to see the Governor of Illinois, who, after patient and thorough examination uching the hearts of humanity in general. In Illinois an association was formed to aid the cause ofay a few thousand votes on him in Indiana and Illinois' it Will inevitably give these States to Buchard horse to beat in this race. Let him have Illinois, and nothing can beat him; and he will get IlIllinois if men persist in throwing away votes upon Mr. Fillmore. Does some one persuade you that Mr. Fillmore can carry Illinois? Nonsense! There are over seventy newspapers in Illinois opposing Buch[8 more...]
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 13. (search)
was no longer bounded by the border lines of Illinois. It had passed beyond the Wabash, the Ohio, e not proposed to instruct the Republicans of Illinois in their political duties, and I doubt very mrse of Douglas or the effect it is to have in Illinois or other States. He himself does not know whg by this if he can keep the attention of our Illinois people from being diverted from the great anditterly — somewhat so — against the papers in Illinois, and said they were fools. I asked him this me this question, You will sustain Douglas in Illinois, wont you? and to which I said No, never! Hdy chosen in the hearts of the Republicans of Illinois for the same office, and therefore with singu admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Illinois on the same day. December 3d. In 1841 bothhe same young lady. In 1846 both represented Illinois in Congress at Washington, the one in the upp been in this position had the Republicans of Illinois been as wise and far-seeing as they are earne
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 15. (search)
ned in connection with the Republican nomination for the Presidency. To be classed with Seward, Chase, McLean, and other celebrities was enough to stimulate any Illinois lawyer's pride; but in Mr. Lincoln's case, if it had any such effect, he was most artful in concealing it. Now and then some ardent friend, an editor, for exampld upon each other from this time forward the individuality of Lincoln is easily lost sight of. He was so thoroughly interwoven in the issues before the people of Illinois that he had become a part of them. Among his colleagues at the bar he was no longer looked upon as the Circuit-Court lawyer of earlier days. To them it seemed osen in seventeen of the free States, as follows: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Oregon; and in one State,--New Jersey,--owing to a fusion between Democrats, Lincoln secured four and Douglas
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 16. (search)
lone that enabled Mr. Lincoln to bear it. His own election of course disposed of any claims Illinois might have had to any further representation in the cabinet, but it afforded Mr. Lincoln no relons who had known him first as the stalwart young ox-driver when his father's family drove into Illinois from southern Indiana. One man had brought with him a horse which the President-elect, in the eture to a neighbor, had rented his house; and as these constituted all the property he owned in Illinois there was no further occasion for concern on that score. In the afternoon of his last day in S had no desire for a Federal office, that I was then holding the office of Bank Commissioner of Illinois under appointment of Governor Bissel, and that if he would request my retention in office by Yance. He sent a young military officer in the person of Thomas Mather, then Adjutant-General of Illinois, to Washington with a letter to General Scott, in which he recounted the threats he had heard a
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 17. (search)
tful schemers of every sort. In the past his Illinois and particularly his Springfield friends Las formerly the editor of a newspaper in northern Illinois, and had, to use an expression of later the welfare of everyone whom he had known in Illinois, or met while on the circuit, the erroneous i not exactly the property of Springfield and Illinois, but the President of all the States in the U. The following letter from a disappointed Illinois friend will serve to illustrate the perplexitn by a man of no inconsiderable reputation in Illinois, where he at one time filled a State office: ment by Mr. Lincoln of the claims his leading Illinois friends had on him. As before observed his own election to the Presidency cancelled Illinois as a factor in the cabinet problem, but in no wise dall the fact, that in 1860 the politicians of Illinois were divided into three divisions, which wereeased, and his cousin returned to his home in Illinois with his mission unaccomplished. The subse[4 more...]
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 19. (search)
got a telegraph despatch from some friends in Illinois urging him to come out and help set things ri chose, but that he could probably do best in Illinois. Upon that he shook hands with me and hurriewas an associate of his in the Legislature of Illinois, and who was in Washington when the engagemen, relates another old friend — Whitney — from Illinois, I made a call on Mr. Lincoln, having no busir several odd characters whom we both knew in Illinois. While thus engaged General James was announesident was closeted with an old Hoosier from Illinois, and was telling dirty yarns while the countrional Union men, to be held at the Capitol of Illinois, on the 3rd day of September, has been receiver days I had practised law on the circuit in Illinois. My clients had been sentenced, and unless tglesby, Senator Yates, and other friends from Illinois. He was invited by the manager of Ford's theor the journey to the home of the deceased in Illinois. On the following day (April 21) the funeral
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 21 (search)
on. the man for the hour. Soon after the death of Mr. Lincoln Dr. J. G. Holland came out to Illinois from his home in Massachusetts to gather up materials for a life of the dead President. The gee extent of this peculiar tendency to gloom. One of Lincoln's colleagues in the Legislature of Illinois is authority for the statement coming from Lincoln himself that this mental depression became sd speeches will prove this; but his speeches before the courts -especially the Supreme Court of Illinois--if they had been preserved, would demonstrate it still more plainly. Here he demanded time tois friends, and had lost no opportunity to abuse them, induced Lincoln to go to the Governor of Illinois and recommend him for an important office in the State Militia. There being no principle at ste lodged at last, without a history, strange, penniless, and alone. In sight of the capital of Illinois, in the fatigue of daily toil he struggled for the necessaries of life. Thirty years later thi
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