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No wonder, when the dastardly taking off was bruited through the beaten but ever gallant South, they knew that they had lost "their best friend!" as General Pickett styled Lincoln. As Schuyler Colfax was going West, Lincoln, in bidding him the last farewell, said foresightedly: "I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our nation.
Full of her brave endeavor the mother bolted through the door without any ceremony of leave-taking. Gard could not collect his tumultuous thoughts there in the room. At last the whole secret was out. Had she not foresightedly kept it so long with some such purpose in view? Fresh air was the only place for him.
Even then his friends saw the germs of the statesman in the lank, homely, crack-voiced hobbledehoy. Their praise emboldened him to stand forward as the spokesman at schoolhouse meetings, lectures, log-rollings, huskings auctions, fairs, and so on the folk-meets of our people. One watching him in 1830 said foresightedly: "Lincoln has touched land at last."
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