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Caption: Booklet - Life of President Lincoln on his Birthday (1896)
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IH min i b\ t lie Intel 1' e a ncl in i i hand of t his plain I llinob* la w \ er In hi « 1118 WIT. 1 n s] ikin i > t h tha pad er oi \ bra ham I f it is D t permissible to mil a sp n his wit, for it was proverbial and a \ irt tin man. [n quick retorl in apt illustration, in n hum r, he had i w peers, This ac omplishment is unmonh dan£ rous to public men, but his was so pure, so spontaneous, ^ > apt, and his ser« vices were so transcendent, that he I is n I sufl d in consequen e of it. Indeed it was fortunate th; I he had it. for it ime to his aid at eriti< tl jun< tures. It helped relieve the hours of his des nden \. ami thev were many. It enforced his views, h saved him when at the breaking point. On the 5th of June, 1863, he wrote General II- >ker: In a word, 1 would not take any risk being entangle I upon the river like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable t > be torn h\ th< dogs front and rear, without a fair chant to >re one w a\ ^v kick tin* o t h e r / ' And, in a day, th ei hteen thousand dead and wounded I n >n soldiers at Chancellorsville, immediately bore dreadful testimony to tin* military foresight oi tin jr< 1 w ar president. 1 I i committee ^\' con ressmen s\ ho came to pro I st a linst the removal ^( McClellan, he said frankly that he thou ht the n r r a l had had op i rtunity; that he complained too much, and that ii made no In idwav. TIHM replied that he was i rtainly a (/ it enulna i " es, but he must hav< ^ 1 run Uttlonary engine/ was the a nsw ( >ing down to review the army, he r up n an ni\ wa| n and f und th driver HW tring at his mui II aid Mj fi nd. \ ou mu t l an
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