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He did not tell stories merely for the sake of telling them, but rather by way of illustration of something that had happened or been said. There seemed to be no end to his fund of stories." Mr. Lamon states: "Lincoln frequently said that he lived by his humor and would have died without it.
Stearns acted as treasurer of this fund, and before the 1st of May nearly the whole amount had been paid in or subscribed." Frank B. Sanborn, "Atlantic," April, 1875, pp. 456-7. Lamon, "Life of Lincoln," p. 441. A. Briggs to Lincoln, November 1, 1859. MS. Jas. A. Briggs in New York "Evening Post," August 16, 1867.
At times he expressed his disdain of the law's mere commercialism in a stinging irony. "In a closely contested civil suit," writes his associate, Ward Hill Lamon, "Lincoln proved an account for his client, who was, though he did not know it at the time, a very slippery fellow. The opposing attorney then proved a receipt clearly covering the entire cause of action.
Another incident in regard to the ruined volume which Lincoln had borrowed from Crawford is related by Mr. Lamon. "For a long time," he says, "there was one person in the neighborhood for whom Lincoln felt a decided dislike, and that was Josiah Crawford, who had made him pull fodder for three days to pay for Weems's Washington. On that score he was hurt and mad, and declared he would have revenge.
Our readers need not be afraid that we are going to bore them with the Slavery Question or the Civil War. We deal here not with the Martyr President, but with Abe Lincoln in embryo, leaving the great man at the entrance of the grand scene. Mr. By Ward H. Lamon.
Thornton went on to say that he knew beyond a doubt that the sensational account of Lincoln's insanity was untrue, and he quoted from the House journal to show how it was impossible that, as Lamon says, using Herndon's notes, 'Lincoln went crazy as a loon, and did not attend the legislature in 1841-1842, for this reason'; or, as Herndon says, that he had to be watched constantly.
The words above given are the report as revised by Lincoln himself, and first published in the Century for December, 1887. The party was in charge of Colonel Ward Hill Lamon, afterwards Marshal of the District of Columbia. He was a trained athlete, a Hercules in strength, a man who knew not what fear was, and, with an enthusiasm akin to religious zeal, he was devoted to his chief soul and body.
The politics of South Carolina and Mississippi had always been aggressive, and the social leadership had been the same. J. G. Holland estimated that not more than one in five of the people in Washington in the winter of 1860-61 were glad to have Lincoln come. He was not far from right. Lamon called the city "a focus of political intrigue and corruption."
For description of him, see Lamon, 8, 9; Herndon, 11. Herndon, 19; Lamon, 16; Holland, 25. Herndon, 25-28; Lamon, 26-28. Herndon, 34-37, 41; Lamon, 34-36; Holland, 28. Mr. Herndon did this ill deed; 50-54. Lamon prefers to say that most of this literature is "too indecent for publication," 63. Thomas Lincoln died January 17, 1851. Herndon, 75, 76; Lamon, 82; Arnold, 30; N. and H. i. 72.
Anything that keeps you up till three o'clock in the morning has some penitential quality." "You give me a new view, Mr. Mavick. I confess that I did not expect to assist at what New Englanders call an 'evening meeting. I thought Eros was the deity of the dance." "That, Mrs. Lamon, is a vulgar error. It is an ancient form of worship. Virtue and beauty are the same thing the two graces."
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