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Title: Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln : by distinguished men of his time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Rice, Allen Thorndike, 1851-1889, ed
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : North American Review
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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n-chief of the army and navy of the United States,and, as a matter of law, I can order anything donethat is practicable to be done ; but, as a matter of fact,I am not in command of the gun-boats or ships ofwar—as a matter of fact, I do not know exactly wherethey are, but presume they are actively engaged.It is impossible for me, in the condition of things, tofurnish you a gun-boat. The credit of the Govern-ment is at a very low ebb. Greenbacks are notworth more than 40 or 50 cents on the dollar, and inthis condition of things, if I was worth half as muchas you gentlemen are represented to be, and as badlyfrightened as you seem to be, I would build a gun-boat and give it to the Government. The gentleman who accompanied the delegationsays he never saw one hundred millions sink to suchinsignificant proportions as it did when that commit-tee recrossed the threshold of the White House,sadder but wiser men. They had learned that moneyas well as muscle was a factor of war. LAWRENCE WELDON.
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vb^/^\ H-eA^V-e,AA \ox)\^ ^ XI. Benjamin Perley Poore. THE election of Abraham Lincoln as Presidentwas very acceptable to the older Washingtoncorrespondents. They remembered him well in theXXXth Congress, when, as the Representative fromthe Sangamon district, he was the only Whig inthe Illinois delegation, then but seven in number.In the drawing for seats his name had been one ofthe last called, and he had been obliged to contenthimself with a desk in the very outer row, aboutmidway on the Speakers left hand, where he had onone side of him Harmon S. Conger, of New York,and on the other John Gayle, of Alabama. Therehe used to sit patiently listening to the eloquence ofJohn Quincy Adams, Robert Toombs, David M.Barringer, Andrew Johnson, and others whose ge-nius and learning adorned the old Hall, and to theverbose platitudes of those less gifted. His ownvoice was never heard unless when he voted ayeor nay. During the Christmas holidays Mr. Lincoln foundhis way into the small room used as

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