Caption: Booklet - Life of President Lincoln on his Birthday (1896)
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nothii w Inch afforded him i mu m i I ml I i r e c H ll the events of his 3 nth ai 1 r t liin \ oun una tiho -<| in 111 in \\ l s tories there w as H freshn is and H I I ilitj H I parens H b ni it, \\ hich I nt H charm to hi and ga \ e real 1 ree to his admin t ra t n. His i eling for t he I \ I v a tid >pr v in tense, aim $1 c msumin He c mid tr it u H I I wart m D with indiffer tit familial iv. but th< o ;i child touched his h a r1 a nd t he pi- ulin w oman unnerved him. He commenced the growth of his whisk s up rec iving a childish letter fr m a little irl. ai I when his inaugural train stopped I a moment at Westfield he ask d U^v her and t h m L down int the crowd that he might kiss her, Ilealwax spoke familiarly t > the officer wl \oin\ at his door and seemed to relish a chat \\ ith he private soldier upon his beat more than with the commanding genera] at his headquarters. It was this sympathy U*v the lowly and the weak which led him to put death sentences from tin nnv into his desk without his approval until the military authorities procured a change in the law in order to get around him. When the J udge-Advocate General laid the first one before him he said: *I will keep this a few days until 1 read the testimony/- When the second came he said: • I must put this by, until I can settle in mv mind whether this soldier ran best serve the u count v\ dead or alive." To the third he said: T h e < meral commanding the brigade is to be here in a I w days and I will speik with him ahout it When the next came and he was told that it was an Ktreme ise, that the man was worthless and without mother, wii or children, and that the dis
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