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throw off the weight of pabl.c and pri. vate cares. The following are sampla lines as nearly as l can recall them, "When was young and used to wait
 Upon de table at ynaSsas plate,
 I'd pass the bottle when he was dry
 An brush away do blue tailed fly.
 .'ole maass's dead. Oh, let him restI Dey say all things am for de best But can't forget until die
 Ole mass an de blue tailed fly
 MT. Lincoln was very fond of the concerts given by the Newhall family 8 company of players and musicians who travelled over the prairies and ren dered performances in the churches and sehoolhouses of central Illinois for many years. He could always attend their concerts if in the same town, and if they appeared more than one night in succession he was sure to be present even though he failed thereby to meet an important engagement elsewhere l He generally went alone. Ehe pro- gramme was arranged to inteE@t chil. i dren and ladies rather than adElt men and the lawyers wondered why Lincoln whose musical tastes were manifestly so limited, was such faithful patron ! 1 they learned that Mrs Hills, one of the singers, had met Lincoln and com. | plimented him on his interesting face 1 and agreeable manners " As she was 1 doubtless the only woman who had ever paid him such marked attention his colleagues laughed and insisted it had turned his head. Nothing, however, pleased him so much as d negro minstrel show That seemed in every way to meet the level of his appreciation of wit Major Whi.2ey rslates that late in March, l830, when LlIeoln had gone to | Chicago to meet and confer with his po- .itical friends relative to his chances for she nomination for president at the convention to be held two months later, he asked Lincoln if he would like to ! attend q "nigger show with him, as he had complimentary tickets ''Of all things l would rather do tonight, an- ! swered Lincoln, "that suits me best , ! Whitney says he never saw him so joyial and appreeiatiye, He applauded every
 thing. "We heard Dixie sung for the first time, " continues Whitney. "I can well remember the spontaneity Of Lin , 2 !, his applause at the music and action of , the rollicking and eccentric perform ance. Little did we think then that this
 weird and harmless melody would ere ] long be transformed into fierce battle 5 cry, by whose inspiration slaughter and r carnage would be carried into the ranks t of those who barred their bosoms to save l the nations life ,
 g As a lawyer one of the secrets of MT. l Lincoln's success was the elearness of e his perceptions and his consequent inn t perturbability. Nothing excited, dis 6 turbed CT distressed him. Throughout g the trial of q cause he was stranger e alike to enthusiasm and trepidation. g Nothing was so apparent as his desire s for clear and exact justice. This marked judicial temperament really proved det- l rilnental to his success if the simple ] accumulation of business is alone con- 2 sidered People in employing lawyer l do not and cannot always use a man r whose natural inclination is first to weigh his clients cause with respect to it's justice, and Lincoln's propensity in 8 that direction cost him employment in many a bad case. Samuel c. Parks, ) colleague of circuit days, relates as an l instance of Lincoln's weakness when on the wrong side of a case: "A man was indicted for larceny, and he employed { Lincoln, Young and me to defend Lin coin was satisfied from the evidence that he was guilty and ought to be convict ! ed. He called Young and me aside and very grayely said If you can say any thing for the man, do it; l cannot. If I attempt it, the jury will see that think ] he IS guilty and convict him sure. The case was, therefore, submitted to the jury without word, and thefesult was disagreement. Before the next term the man died Lincoln's honesty un- doubtedly saved him from the peniten- tiary. h the case of Harris and Jones versus Buckles, Harris wanted Lincoln to assist me. The latter's answer was characteristic: Tell Harris it's no use to waste money on me in that case. He'll get beat D
 Mir. Lincoln's temper was admirable, but when thoroughly aroused and pro yolled he was capable of terrible passion and inyectiye His "skinning'' of one SN 1AA' P@A'VAOetA OlJp|LC41lo tJCSoc A'. Thomas) before the people in i84O is still remembered by few who heard it as terrible in its severity, and his de- nunciation before jury in Petersburg of defendant wh had slandered an almost friendless schl-llmistress was as bitter philippic as US ever uttered in Illinois. In one case where he brought suit in behalf of an orphan girl against her guardian, q man of prominence who had appropriated to his own use good proportion of his wards property, he fought with zeal and desperation and gained the suit in the lower court. An appeal was taken to the supreme court of Illinois, and here again he brought the full measure of his great ability to play, with the result that he finally won the eolst over to his position, and thus was eEabted to restore to his client the property ont of which she had been defrauded The girl meanwhile had married q poor mechanic, and when she and her spouse called on Lincoln to pay him his fee he declined to accept any thing, telling them both they might consider his services in the suit as his wed0inc nresant