pig-slaughterer

Updated: October 19, 2025

This blunt trope stirred up Lincoln, who had been a pig-slaughterer in his day, remember. He groaned, wrung his hands, and "took on" with terrible agony of spirit. "I remember his saying over and over again," says the governor: "'What has God put me in this place for?"

- The Lincoln Story Book : A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form