New-York tribune., 1867-02-15

was hackneyed. His long, Var1aoie au ~ h;O, or
| nerience with common, native people Hh1o hIi
| ppnaintod with a thousand Oddities ana ne haa
familiar way of relating them that was ~ piquaV a.,
his appcation of them IL is also true ina sone Di M
tbosa storps we're more COgcnt than dec9te YET III
| no single was he ever remembered 70 W nav M b;ch
an exceptional anecdote for the sake UNI % IL y er
! IL was eXceDtOnaI Mr. HemdOn remembers III
son who so far misO0l Mr.. Lincoln once rs 10 tpI t
coarse story without purpose DIs ~ lg't' H. ,
| LinCOlns face worked lmpatiehUS' "Hon 'io man
'. had had nearly put that fellow out of the office
| He diSgusts me" ~,,,, 1;., found the
! law ieal0us and uiggaTd. He was always aDc TO
| keep horse and very fond OF rlding' Duu no
made poor income, though one hOI ~ t fbe
with the general smallneSs of his colleagues at 1ilo
| Illinois bar Now and then he was pnChed 10 UP
tress and went to bed with no notion OF now ;fn up
sbouid meet the mOrrOws claims. For nearly IIi ~
part of his whole life he owed money that ne uo Sht
not nav and although of easy Disposition th9 tep1
CALLED him and hastened his wrinkIes ne C9SUu Ti.
himself finally on his return from asnlneIoi VIZ Wy,
yrbere he sat ~ Representative in Congress When
| ne onitted Springfield for the White House ne was
worth inst $4,000. Never moody nor peIuuLalti nan no
vet loved solitude and selfcOmmunOn, ana has pteh
known 10 sit six hours in one place. to lie on his
back for example the floor OF ms house Iooklng
absenty at the ceiling or 10 sun ,SC tbe pro
| ceSses of plea through hs mlnd or lOIH'lnB soino
! political Judgment. -. Io,,
manifest vet he had his romance in early manhood
| and as of this Mr.. HVndOn had spoken Ill puoiic'
| | asked particularly about 1T. 49,,
| At SangamOn, Illinois, pretty ana hgn"plIl.cu 'D
| girl. without fortune, made naVOc III many
hearts, and Mr. Lincoln constituted one OF three
earnest suitOrs who wanted her In marriage ohe oh
preferred the addresses of young merchant Oh Lhe
| Town and gave the other two their congo. Her
affianced soon afterward went East to buy goods
but as he returned was taken with BRAIN teVer III
some WaVside town. and lay raving for three m0nlIs
unknown bv name or residence to his entertainers.
TumOT started that he had run away 10 aVolu laI
ryng his lady and, waiting some tlhne III VAN 70
hear from him. she received anew the attentions OF
Mr. Ijncoln About the time when they passed from
courtesy to tenderness and marriage between It l;
was more than limited at, the SICK man returned IKE
| a ghost gauged the condition of affairs, and up
braided the lady with fickleness She had delicate
sense of honor and felt keenly the shame Oh haVng
seemed TO trife with two gentlemen at once; Jllls
proved upon her mind till her body not very strong
suffered by sympathy, and Mr. Herndon has oral ana
written testimony that the girl died out OF regret AZ
the euuivOcal position she had unwlttlngy assumed
The names of all the parties he has given me, but
| do not care TO print them. q,
| On the dead wOman's grave Mr.. Lincoln promised
himself never to marry. This VOW he kept very long,
| His marriage was every respect adVal-
| tageous to him. 1t whctted his AMBITION did not
nurse too much penchant for home Incidence that
he had, and taught him particularly that there was
something called society which observed ones DoOiS
as we'll as his principles. He was always loyal ana
reVerent husband. gentle but not POSITIVE latntI
and his wife saw the Presidency for him before the
! thought of it troubled him. - -, -.
now so celebrated, at comparatively recent period
went over it yesterday with amusement at ltS uter
practicalty. Ii stands upon pr0SalC corner III an
OF
| a carpenter. not an architect. narrow yard ana
palings shut it from the street the door Is III the
! middle and is approached by four OF five wooden
steps; on the abutment beside these he stood after
his nomination. in the blaze of pine torches, the
| thunder of huzzas breaking around ms head me
only solemn man in Springfield. lie Ingnt nave Ielt
that all these gTatulatlOns were such as the Aztccs
| spent upon the beautiful captive who was To be
sacrificed in the teOcdttS.
AS lawyer, he was close student OF those cases
| that interested him. Slow 10 take them into hls
mind passing in their consideration from stage to
| stage aud if he found beneath an embodied prin-
cipe, his heart grew into the WORK OF deNeiOphg IT,
He frequently sat up all night preparing some iaNOf
ite argument and failed To present II 80 per
spcuolsy that dull inteects grew appreciative and
shrewd ones absorbed. Some of hls legal arguments
are described having been classical Yet, beneath
all the drudgery of his craft he was at Sou poll
tiCian rather than an attorney. Every legal sudS
carried him beyond itself To the mysteries Oh p9nc
infrmitv "He sat- SAYS Mr.. HerndOn, looking
through brief to the CONSTRUCTION OF society ana
! the moral government OF God. Now and then ne
shut himself up all night, and lay on his office floor
i'm his careless garments revolving some problem set
| by a village client that had expanded 10 a great
human principle. AT these times he seemed 10 De y,
! dreamer reasoning. Again. he drove miles over me
prairies with his lips close shut, wnnkllng, softly
| humming and returned again at night strangely
Before his great public call came he had passed the
world through his silent thought, Is If 1t had been
| legal case to be stated and argued.
| did he ever quarrel, Mr.. HerndOn
| Seldom friend but sometimes Once saw him
incensed at Judge for giving an unfair decision 1t
was terrible spectacle. AS ne was grand IN his
good nature, he was grand IN nus rage Al ahOther
| tune saw two come to blows III his presence ;
he picked them up separately and tossed them apart
like couple of kittens lie the strongest man
! ever knew and has been known TO lift a man of his
own weight and throw him over a worm fence.
Once, in Springfield the Irish voters meditated tax
ing possession of the polls. News came down the
street that they would permit nobody to vote but
those of their own party. Mr. Lincoln seized an axe
handle from hardware store ana went alone 10 open
| a way to the balOt-bOX. disappearance lnlimddtcl
them, and had neither threats nor collisions all
that day. He was never sick during the whole Of
our long acquaintance; being a man of slow ClrCula-
ton and Of most regular habits capable of subslst
ing upon q mOrsel. hc wiry and induratcd beyond
the best of our Western men, and even with Booth
in general, was smooth and unruffed. He had no
preiudices against any class preferng the Germans
Ia any of the foreign element, yet tOleratlng-aS
| (HerndOnl never c0uld-eyen the Irish"
| Did he ever drink ~
"Ony in Indiana, when he took whisky az ague-
medicine. After his nomination for the Presidency
it suggested TO him that the Visiting Committee
would require some hospitality. Very wellp he
said, any food that is proper authorize to be pur-
chased.
60 But these gentlemen will expect some LIQUORS
can't permit to strangers what do not do my
self. No liquors, Billy, there's the tayem!'"
! OF miscellaneous books MIR. LnCOn's favOrites
were Shakespeare and Pope He never read Byron.
and of contemporary American poets preferred the
patriotic selections chiefly Milton he knew by
heart and was a good literary reader of the Bible
| His friends selected with regard TO their sin
ccriy chiefly: he loved not cliques, and those who
knew nun best were younger IMAM ne lie was caIl-
tiOus in friendships no hero wOIshipper and for Mr.
Douglas his most prominent antagonist had much
less admiration than repulsiOn Douglas was uncasy
arrogant in LincOlns presence; the latter never sen
sltvc nor Hurried, 50 grew by his imperurbability
that when hc reached the White House, Mr.. Douglas
was less surprised than anybody else. The great
Senatorial campaign, IN which they figured together.
Is isremembered by every SpTIngeldeT. Douglas, with
his powerful voice and face energy went into il
der full steam Lincoln began lncidly and cautiously.
When they came ont of it Douglas was worn down
with rage and hOarseness and Lincoln was frcSheT
fhan ever LIE nrennred Ill the snnnchrs OF this