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 ls5 pss.s.is ia g. s. McCIure.l
 uhen ha spoke lis attermces rang oat with th2 clear rsrg ef genuine gold on tbe=camtlftf the understanding 70 His reasoning ehr aSa logic, analogy and comparison il Was mtrring and deadly. His aaveIsaeies always dreaded his orig inality ef idea, condensation and force Of expression not less than they writhed under the convincing effect of his sin gularly significant and apt stories Woe be t. the man Who hugged to his bosom S ecre5 erTer if Lincoln ever started in chase ef it. Time and all the legerde- main Of debate could hide the error in no crook or corner of space ill which he would I detect and expose it.
 An ing vein of humor eoursed through -i5 being, and regardless Of pro fessianal etiquette CT the dignity and surroundings of the court it found q ready utteranee Here is g letter to one Of his colleagues who lived i'll that part of Illinois 1nownfas Egypt"
 SPRINGFIELD, Ills, July f, 1851 Andrew NcGollum:
 DEAR SIR-I have news from Ottawa that we win our Gallatin and Saline county case. Az the Dutch justice said when he married folks "NoW, vero ish my hundert toIarss7 Yours truly 4. LINCOLN.
 In his first appearance before the su- preme court of Illinois he coolly gave his case away, telling the court that all the decisions favored his opponents side, and, although he had industriously read the authorities, he could find noth- ing to sustain his own position. T dc not think " hesays ill Q letter addressed to Hardin Healing, Esq, there is the least use of doing anything more with the lawsuit. Inot only do not think you are sure to gain it. but do think you are sure to lese it. Therefore the sooner it ends the better ' How consoling tC al anxious client hopeful and confident of an early victory. T wish you would learn of D." he writes in letter te his friend, Joshua T. Speed. "what he will take over and above discharge for all the trouble we have been at to take his business out of cur hands and give 1t to somebody clac. # E You know I am not a Ylry petulant man, but I de. clare l am almost out cf patience with Mir E--'s endless importantly. Ii seems he not only writes all the letfera he can himself, but he gets everybody else in Louisville aad vicinity to be constantly writing about his claim. 4*at am neither JoEiag ecr in fret when I ! Say we would thank hiu to transfer his l business to some other lawyer without any compensation for what we have done, "
 Mr Lincon's professional standard vas very high, and although connected Wlth every variety of litigation, even to the most desperate criminal cases he was never guilty of the slightest viola tlgh CT professional ethics He was ia | all respects 8 clean lawyer, and his on- 1 pohents HeSer had occasion to oomnlain CT BIS unfairnCs5. His motives were never questioned, and his advice wac tnif n y1mIy wholesome. The cause of his e4eiit, however desperate, never promnt- ed nm to do wrong CT advise enc to1 De done, Ihe following letter. never he. fore published, is in point:
  ,r- r.7... PEltIN. Ills, May 12 1858.
 .3i 3i nope the subject matter of this letter 'tli appear sufficient auology to yoI, 4a1 tH l1eity la total stranger-take in adClTess,,,, , 94, +he persons here holding two lots under ,,geSghea Y made by you as the attorney Of
 e-t '- i'''iiey now nearly 22 years ago, ara -1stsg osnstr 1f losing the lots and ',e-, perhaps all-is to depend on the teqti. -,y-4s -,'e you stVe as to whether you did or did ~, a .-'t s' Bailey for tho prc ceeds received Y sg- ., .l the sale If the lots I therefore as 'lie ot thalr counsel, beg Of you to fnliy ro' -. ,7ii 'al rea 9ileet,oa hy any means in yonr
 s.-5ls tae 5lmo yoa may be called on f, h5,. t- '=.3ss4s shoUid como about you and ''sA "A !. e's.'osA5ion to prompt you on the snb. -, |. may hef ae more than prudent "a re. +..a.st tii''5 it laiy he possible they desi.n fo s.ss-,. .',-'.'f soa and to ernbarrass the real R.:.-'e-5 yo1 may ultimately give. IT raas E saz lae9ls7 or year before Teg are osi,., ' su3 S9 .ssiiy. anurs truly, 4. LIscoIN.
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