contract-hunters

Updated: May 6, 2025

Lincoln's chair leads by a private passage to his family quarters. This passage is his only monument in the building; he added nor subtracted nothing else; it tells a long story of duns and loiterers, contract-hunters and seekers for commissions, garrulous parents on paltry errands, toadies without measure and talkers without conscience.

George Alfred Townsend - The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth