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Title: Lincoln, the lawyer
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hill, Frederick Trevor, 1866-1930
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lawyers Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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de himquite as effective with the court as he was withthe jury, and the two men were thereafter con-stantly together in all sorts of legal work. Hewould study out his case and make about asmuch of it as any one, Logan remarked,speaking of his partner many years afterward.His ambition as a lawyer increased; he grewconstantly. By close study of each case as itcame up he got to be quite a formidable lawyer. It has been stated that under Logans tutelageLincoln became a case-lawyer, but this is nottrue if a case-lawyer be one who has at histongues end all the precedents affecting anygiven state of facts, and who is lost unless hislegal trail is plainly blazed. But if the termdescribes one who makes no excursions into the 129 LINCOLN THE LAWYER field of general legal knowledge and is not con-cerned with its theories and philosophy, then Lin-coln may properly be described as a case-lawyer. He met each problem as it presented itself, &£<-£*-0 *^u~^ cu^c- 6L*^y - ^J^Lc. if**-* 3Lzz^^,
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!5g. From the collection of Major William H. Lambert Beginning and conclusion of a legal document in Lincolnshandwriting, signed Logan and Lincoln attempting to do only one thing at a time, con-centrating the whole power of his mind upon thesubject in hand until he mastered it, and neverforgetting any item of information when onceacquired. His mind, he remarked, was like apiece of steel—very hard to scratch, but almostimpossible to free of any mark once madeupon it. He did not trouble himself to analyzethe subtleties and labored profundities of the 130 JUDGE LOGAN AND LINCOLN law, and never made the slightest pretense to aca-demic knowledge. For real scholarship he had,of course, a profound respect, but the pseudo-learning often displayed in the courts onlyamused him. On one occasion a lawyer againstwhom he was practising quoted a Latin maxim,and then, either to impress his hearers or to em-barrass his adversary, added, Is not that so, Mr.Lincoln? If that is Latin, Lincoln responded

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