Identifier: lincolnlawye00hill (find matches)
Title: Lincoln, the lawyer
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hill, Frederick Trevor, 1866-1930
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lawyers Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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ally true of thesettler days. Lincoln was not, however, a totalabstainer in any strict sense of the words. Hedid not drink intoxicants because he did not likethem, and he did not smoke for a similar reason.Judge Douglass once undertook to ridiculehim on this subject. What! Are you a temperance man? he in-quired sneeringly. No, drawled Lincoln, with a smile, Im nota temperance man, but Im temperate in this, towit,—I dont drink.1 With his elders the young storekeeper foundfavor for a variety of reasons. They soon dis-covered that he knew more than any of them,but never presumed upon it; that he was genialand obliging, always ready to lend a hand at 1 This conversation occurred in the presence of Judge LawrenceWeldon, who repeated it in an interview with the writer. JudgeWeldon was the last surviving lawyer who traveled the circuit withLincoln. (See Foreword.) He died in the spring of 1905, after along and useful career on the bench of the United States Court ofClaims in Washington. 36
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From a photograph by Rice Judge Lawrence Weldon EARLY APTITUDES anything, from roofing a barn to rocking a baby;and that he was as reliable in business mattersas he was in neighborly deeds and kindnesses. But perhaps his most winning quality withyoung and old alike was his sincere belief in hisfellow-townsmen and their community. Localpride never had a more buoyant champion thanhe. For him Sangamon County in general andNew Salem in particular, was the promised land,and he was confident that the people were equalto the task of developing it according to its needs.Thus when it was first suggested that the shal-low, snag-bound Sangamon River was navigableand might be made a great highway of com-merce, he eagerly championed the theory andworked with voice, pen, and hand to realize apractical result. The Sangamon is still unnav-igable and New Salem has disappeared, but Lin-colns plea for improving the waterway remainsas evidence of his sincere belief in the future ofthe community and to sh

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