st Mr. Deury D. Joy PREFACE. HE reason for thinking that the public may THE be interested in my father's recollections of MR. LINCOLN, will be found in the following letter from HON. J. P. USHER, Secretary of the Interior during the war: — LAWRENCE, KANSAS, May 20, 1885. Ward H. Lamon, Esq., Denver, Col. DEAR SIR, -There are now but few left who were intimately acquainted with Mr. Lincoln. I do not call to mind any one who was so much with him as yourself. You were his partner for years in the practice of law, his confidential friend during the time he was President. I venture to say there is now none living other than yourself in whom he so much confided, and to whom he gave free expression of his feeling towards others, his trials and troubles in conducting his great office. You were with him, I know, more than any other one. I think, in view of all the circumstances and of the growing interest which the rising generation takes in all that he did and said, you ought to take the time, if you can, to commit to writing your recollections of him, his sayings and doings, which were not necessarily committed to writing and made public. Won't you do it? Can you not, through a series of articles to be published in some of the magazines, lay before the public a history of his inner life, so that the multitude may read and know much more of that wonderful man? Although I knew him quite well for many years, yet I am deeply interested in all that he said and did, and I am persuaded that the multitude of the people feel a like interest. Truly and sincerely yours, (Signed) J. P. USHER. In compiling this little volume, I have taken as a foundation some anecdotal reminiscences already published in newspapers by my father, and have added to them from letters and manuscript left by him. If the production seems fragmentary and lacking in purpose, the fault is due to the variety of sources from which I have selected the material. Some of it has been taken from serious manuscript which my father intended for a work of history, some from articles written in a lighter vein; much has been gleaned from copies of letters which he wrote to friends, but most has been gathered from notes jotted down on a multitude of scraps scattered through a mass of miscellaneous material. D. L. WASHINGTON, D. C., March, 1895. A Branch of Law Practice which Mr. Lincoln could not learn Mrs. Lincoln's Prediction in 1847 that her Husband would be The Lincoln and Douglas Senatorial Campaign in 1858 "Smelt no Royalty in our Carriage" Mr. Lincoln denies that he voted against the Appropriation for Supplies to Soldiers during Mexican War Plans for Safety . At Harrisburg Col. Sumner's Opinion of the Plan to thwart Conspiracy At West Philadelphia - Careful Arrangements to avoid Dis- Mr. Seward and Mr. Chase, Men of Opposite Principles 55 Geographical Lines distinctly drawn Behavior of the 36th Congress Letter of Hon. Joseph Holt on the "Impending Tragedy Mr. Lincoln imagines Himself in the Place of the Slave- Judge J. S. Black on Slavery as regarded by the Southern Emancipation a Question of Figures as well as Feeling 'Bring back a Palmetto, if you can't bring Good News" Initiated into the great "Unpleasantness Interview with Governor Pickens - No Way out of Existing Passes written by Governor Pickens Interview with Major Anderson . Rope strong enough to hang a Lincoln-Hireling Timely Presence of Hon. Lawrence Keith Extremes of Southern Character exemplified The Ease with which Mr. Lincoln could be reached A Missouri "Orphan " in Trouble |