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Title: Life and works of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Miller, Marion Mills, 1864-1949, ed Whitney, Henry Clay, 1831-1905. Lincoln the citizen
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : Lincoln Centenary Association
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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judge of our circuit, he explained awaythe error by this illustration: They had sidejudges down in New Hampshire, and to show thefolly of the system, one who had been a sidejudge for twenty years said the only time thechief judge ever consulted him was at the closeof a long days session, when he turned to theside judge and whispered: Dont your backache ? And Davis himself narrates that Lin-coln never consulted him but once or twice. On the other hand, he had some general andgenuine friendships, which ranged throughoutthe entire gamut of correlative social amenities,and to such friendships, his loyalty and constancywere inflexible. He never sacrificed a friend atthe behest of personal policy or menace, but overand over again he sacrificed policy and safetyby reason of his loyalty and devotion to friend-ship. This trait I know in circumstance and de-tail, and I therefore affirm that Mr. Lincoln wasthe most firm, sincere, and unyielding devotee to -.-- •..-, ■•-, ■,.-.:^-..-.-^-
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JUDGE DAVID DAVIS MENTAL AND MORAL NATURES 237 the sacred cause of friendship that I ever saw,and whenever his sense of obhgation to duty pre-vented his allowance of the claims of friendship,it gave him more pain than it did the disap-pointed one. An excellent test of Mr. Lincolns high nobilityof character and nature was his kindness andmercy. I never knew a brave and courageousman to be so abnormally sensitive about his ownacts; he touched the world with bare nerves, andsuffered in secret more than was ever known orever will be revealed about matters which, withinthe orbit of his great responsibilities, should bedeemed to be extremely trivial. Once, on thesteps of the War Department, he confided one ofhis minor sorrows to me, to secure my sympathy,apparently. I tried to make him relinquish it.He listened assentingly to my casuistry, but dis-missed the subject with the conclusion: I knowall that as well as you do, but I cant get overit, and he turned sadly away. Confidence was not onl

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