Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-18

Fessenden, and press npoR him the duty
OF accepting. Among these was a dele
CATION of New York bankers who / had
the honor Of introdncins to the Presi-
dent In the name Of the banking COM
munlty, they expressed their satisfaction
at the nomination. This was especially
gratifying to him, and, in the strongest
manner, he entrested them to s. see Mr.
Fesserden and assure him of their sup
port. as I
Mr.. LINCOLN AND xR. STANTON.
Entering the Presidents room about
eleven o clock one evening, found him
alone, seated by the long Office table,
with large pile Of military com missions
before him, which he was signing one BY
one. Sitting down beside him, he re-
marked, / do not, as you see, pretend
TO read over these documents / see
that Stanton has signed them, SO con-
ciude they are ell right" Pausiug here,
ne read portion of one, beginning with
the name of the individual: g
is hereby appointed Adiutant General,
with the rank Of Captain, &c. Z. M.
Stanton, Secretary of War" "There,'
said he, appending his own signature in
the opposite corner, "that fixes him
ont" Thus he went on chatting and
writing, until he had finished the lot;
then, rising from his chair, be stretched
himself, and said, "Well, l have got
that job husked out; now / guess
will go oyer to the War Department and
see if there is any news" At his re-
quest, walked over with him, and /
recollect thinking on the way how ex-
posed he was to the danger of assassin
alton by taking the walk alone so late
at highland yet it was his common
2ractiee-often so late as one and two
o'clock in the norningl II.
GRANT.
Daring the battles of the Wilderness,
last summer, for three nights he did not
close his eyes in sleepl Much of the
time he was at the War Department,
listening to the click of the telegraph.
His appearance at this time was enough
to excite sympathy in the hardest heart.
At length the clouds lifted, and the sun.
shine came out He greeted a friend
with the words, " 1t is all rightl Grant
is making bis points"
About this time we were talking one
day about the operations Of the army,
and / asked him how General Grant i'm
pressed him, as compared with other
commanders Said he, "The great
thing about Grant is bis persistence; be
win never give up so long as there is q
chance in the world" How perfectly
the result of the .campaign vindicated
this judgment Is now the most glorious
page in our history
A correspondent ofthe Methodist, who
has just visited Mrs. Lincoln's home in
Illinois, writes as follows:
LINCoLN's EARLY LIFE.
Mr.. Herndon told me that Mr.. Lin.
coin approached more nearly the angel
ic nature than any person be ever saw,
woman not accepted. He had, he said
more of the angel-looking eye and face
than be had ever seen Yet he was
not without passions, These, in Lin
coin, were powerful, but they were held
under control by giant will He was,
said MIR. Herndon, a great animal, but
great angel was engrafted upon it. He
bad towering smbitiou, but that ambi-
ton was directed to the attainment of
power with which to elevate man. He
seems to have entertained very vivid
impressions of his mothers virtues, and
q tender sense of his obligations to her.
Familisrly he once said to his partner
BILLY, all that am owe to my blessed
mother" &ke D08 8
When he first went to Springfield he
was extremely poor, not having a shil-
ling in his pockets, and with but very
scanty wardrobe. He would stop while
with one, and then with another, going
from neighbor to neighbor, all esteeming
it favor to have him in their houses
At that time be had read well and thor
oughly everything he had touched, in
cluding the Bible and Shakespear, which
were his leading books at the time of
has death. He was, said Mr. Herndon,
q good Biblical scholar. When he was
twentythree years of age he had read
history and biography considerably, and
be mastered Burns when be was twenty
Eve.
FIDELITx OF PRINCIPLE.
His strict fidelity to principle was illus
trated by his partner by the following
incident. He said when Mr.. Lincoln
collected any money belonging to the
hrm, he would always take half the
amount received, and fold up the other
half, write upon it the word "Billy" (the
name he Familiarity called his partner }
and lay II AWAY in his pocket book. One
time Mr., Herndon said to him:
why do you do that7 Why not take
the whole of the money and use it2"
because" said Lincoln, II promised
my mother never to use snybody's money
Should anything happen me, that money
would be known to be yours"
HIS Law OFFICE.
Mr.. Herndon took me into the law
Office, where Mr.. Lincoln used to sit and
toll. 1t is plain and unpreteuding. In
deed, everything about the man was in
dicative Of the simplicity of his charae-
ter. And vet, though so transparent
and unassuming, he was sagacious. His
friend told me that he was a man of
profound policy. His neighbor, to whom
| have referred, said he was q great
thinker-that he was accustomed to
think much on the affairs of the nation.
Sometimes he would pass his friends on
TIE street without sign Of recognition
-lost in deep musings. Again, as
neighbor approached him he would cast
up his eye, smile, and remark, ave
been drinking" and then proceed to IN.
fold the subject Of his thoughts.
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