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Title: The true Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slaves Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia London : J.B. Lippincott
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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with Mrs. Lincoln for a longdrive, and seemed to be in an unusually happy and con-tented mood. She said that he talked of going back toSpringfield to practise law. His heart was overflowingwith gratitude to the Heavenly Father, he said, for allHis goodness, and particularly for the close of the warand the triumph of the Union arms, for there would beno further bloodshed or distress. The members of hisfamily and his secretaries agree that they never hadknown him to be in such a satisfied and contented stateof mind. The clouds that had hung over him for fouryears had cleared away; the war was over, peace wasrestored, and the only duty left to him was extremelygrateful to his nature,—the task of restoring happinessand prosperity. After dinner that evening Mr. Colfax and Mr. Ash-mun, of the House of Representatives, who were aboutto leave Washington for the summer, came to inquireif the President intended to call an extra session ofCongress. He assured them that he did not; and, as 310
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JOHN WILKES BOOTHFrom a photograph by Brady LINCOLN IN THE WHITE HOUSE they were leaving the White House, Ward Lamon, theUnited States Marshal of the District of Columbia, andone of his oldest friends, called to ask a pardon for anold soldier who had been convicted of violating thearmy regulations. According to the recollection of Mr.Pendel, one of the Presidents messengers, Lincoln toldhis last story at that time. As he was about to signthe pardon, he turned to Lamon, saying,— Lamon, do you know how the Patagonians eatoysters ? No, I do not, Mr. Lincoln, was the reply. It is their habit to open them as fast as they canand throw the shells out of the window, and when thepile of shells grows to be higher than the house, why,they pick up stakes and move. Now, Lamon, I felt likebeginning a new pile of pardons, and I guess this is agood one to begin on. The President, Mrs. Lincoln, and General and Mrs.Grant had accepted a box at Fords Theatre that even-ing, and, the fact having been ann

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