New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-30
4 STORY AB0Ur LINCOLN

ErForernor Eicc IN n f,ribcoming memorial rolt0e
-, W me oWciailF resident ~ Washington during
me late var once had occasion 10 call upon
president Lincoln with the late Senator Henry
lIson. uDon an crr1nd of public nature IN which
we werr mutually interested In the recognized
or er oi precedent member Of the House OF Keep
rcScut1tfvcs ~ then wa-. could not m times of
pressure for audience with the IRE ident gain adj
mttlnce 800 long as there were Cabinet Ministers,
members 'i the diplomatic Corps senators or JUS
iire- OF the supreme Court desiring aud 'erce WIN
hlin md al civilians must wait their opportunity
un'iI al er members OF ongreSs and officers OF On"
AIHiF AuI NaFV and OF the Civil service ana ON
ers had had their turns respectively Having
lont GRAND with Senator Wilson. I could avail of
ms privilege oi earlier ADMISSION BAT We were
''used 10 wait some time ln the ante-ruom before
we rouli Dc received, and when az length the door
was opened 70 Us. small lad. perhaps ten or
twelve years old. who had been waiting for 3d-
mission Re v"rll days without ,ucccsS slipped IN De-
tween Vas. aud approached tine Preside ul Ia advance.
me Iattrr gave the = uatOr and myself coIldi
but brief sa utatiOu. and turning Immediately %
the Lad, said " And Who is the little boy ~ During
thelrcouierauce the senator and myself We're appar-
euul forgotten. The boy soon told his story, winch
was I'D substance that me md come 20 Washington
seeking employment as page m the House oil Re-
pie,eutatlyc~, and wished the President 10 give
INN such am appointment. TO this the President
replied J1i -l"h appointments "tr nor 10 MS us
po sal and that application mast be made To the
Ool-kcrpcr of The House \ the Capitol, " But,
SIT sall the lad stall uudaunted, am good
boy, and have % letter from my mother, and one
from the 81 pervl-0Ts Of my town. and one from my
sunday -sch00 teacher and they all told me that |
cOulu earn enough ia one r->lOu OF congress 10
Keep my mother and tue rest o.. Us comfortable all
the remainder # thc year he President ook the
LADS paper. and ran MS eve over them with that
penetrating and absorbent look famiilart o all who
know him and then took hl- pen aud wrote uuon
the back Oi one of IN III: - II captain NoO4hoW
can give place 20 thls good little boy, l shall De
gratined,' and signed 10 y Lincoln.
p boy face became radiant with nope, ana ne
walk d out of the room with step as ight As
thoug al The angels were whispering their con
gr1tUlau0us.
Only after the lad bad gone did the Pr silent
seem to reail- that a senator and aho heT person
lad been -omc time waiting TO see huu
Think for "a moment of tine President ot q great
nation, and that nation engaged I'D one OF the mos'
terrible wars ever Waced amougmen. himself worn
down with anxiety and iaror. subjected 10 the
alienation, OF sdcce and decat, rlcacd by COM
plants of the cuvoU>. the uis.oyli ana the ui-
reasonable pressed 20 he decision 3D.. grave quest
ions of public poIcy, and encuMbcrcd 10y the NUM-
berl-ss and uaMclcss incidents of civil AMI martial
rc,pon-lbiity. able so far FEB FORGET them ali aa
to give himself MP for the tine beng 30 the err1nI
o. 10 uttlc bog VINO mad or4vrd aD interview uHin-
y.t-, and IF w HON he knew nothing but that ne
mad % Story 90 tell OF his widowed mother, aud OI
lis ambition o. serve -cr