A STORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
[To Tia Emma OP TRH " SPECTATOR."] S/S,—I think your readers will be interested in the following story of Lincoln, cut from an American paper.—I am, Sir, &o.,
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" Lincoln was once speaking about an attack made on him by the Committee on the Conduct of the War for a certain alleged blunder, or something worse, in the Southwest—the matter involved being one which had fallen directly under the observation of the officer to whom ho was talking, who possessed official evidence
completely upsetting all the conclusions of the committee. Might it not be well for me,' queried the officer, to set this matter right in a letter to some paper, stating the facts as they actually occurred?' ' Oh, no,' replied the President ; at least, not now. If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how—the very best I can ; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.' "
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