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There is a double echo in the Lincolnian saying, "No surrender, though at the end of one or a hundred defeats," from General-President Taylor's reply at Buena Vista: "General Taylor never surrenders," to its antecedent, not so well authenticated, of General Cambronne at Waterloo: "The Old Guard dies, but does not surrender."
"Stop!" interrupted Bob, "did you not furnish a special for General-President Harrison?" "S'pose we did," answered the superintendent; "well, if you will bring your father here in that condition, you shall have the best train on the track!"
In Coffin's "Lincoln," it is stated that when Lincoln and Offutt, boating to New Orleans, attended a slave auction for the first time, the former said to his companion: "By the Eternal, if ever I get a chance to hit this thing, I'll hit it hard!" The oath was General-President Jackson's, and familiar as a household word at the day. The promise is premature in a youth of twenty.
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