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Identifier: lincolnlawy1762hillin (find matches)
Title: Lincoln, the lawyer
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hill, Frederick Trevor, 1866-1930
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lawyers Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
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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ave been for hissocial qualities that Logan chose his man, and hecertainly could not have coveted the small per-sonal clientage which Lincoln had secured dur-ing his apprentice years. Neither is it at allprobable that he allowed any question of friend-ship to enter into his business calculations.Doubtless he liked the young man and foundhis company agreeable, but there was a strongmixture of Scotch blood in the judges veins,and his eyes very rarely wandered from the mainchance. He wanted an assistant capable of help-ing him with his steadily increasing legal work,and the explanation of his choice was obvious.He believed that Lincoln had in him the makingsof an able lawyer, and he instinctively recog-nized promising legal material in the rough. Noless than seven distinguished members of the barand statesmen of repute—four United Statessenators and three governors of States—weredeveloped in the same office in later years, andtheir careers testify to the powerful influence of 114 i T
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ofZy^uzou tT OC^- A NOTABLE PARTNERSHIP their preceptor and his faculty for discoveringlatent talent. Logans recognition of Lincolns qualifica-tions was not, however, wholly divination. Hisattention had been first attracted to the youngman by a very sensible speech which he haddelivered during his earliest political canvass,and when he was admitted to practice the judgewas on the bench and doubtless heard his maidenefforts at the bar.1 Later he frequently methim in practice on the circuit, and receivedthe best possible proof of his legal aptitudes;for in the fourth volume of Illinois Reports wefind him opposed to his future partner in at leastthree appeals from cases tried as early as 1839,and in all of them Lincoln was the victor. More-over, one of these cases (Bailey v. Cromwell, 4Ills., 71) involved an important principle, andwas otherwise calculated to inspire each manto his very best effort, although neither couldpossibly have dreamed that it was to have a placein history as the

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