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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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an onthe Eighth Circuit. He was the acknowledgedleader of the local bar, whose services were con-stantly in demand, and the one man who couldbe relied upon to take a case in any of the coun-ties comprising the circuit, for he alone coveredthe entire route. It is misleading to belittle thevalue of this daily experience on the ground thatmost of the litigations were of no great mone-tary importance. Every lawyer familiar withtrial work knows that small cases often raisemore difficult questions of law and demand nicerknowledge of legal principles than causes onwhich millions depend; and it should also beremembered that many of the small suits were,in effect, test cases which settled the law for thenew State. Of course no one could have practised beforethe court and juries day after day and year afteryear in this way without learning something, andLincolns legal development was marked withevery year of his practice. In 1853 the IllinoisCentral Railroad retained him as its counsel, and 202
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From a photograph Portrait of Lincoln LEADER OF THE BAR not long afterward he appeared for the RockIsland Road and many other important represen-tative interests, and his record of appeal casesin the Supreme Court is equalled by but fewmembers of the Illinois bar. It is impossible to overestimate the value ofthese active professional years on Lincolns sub-sequent career. They brought him into closecontact and collision with able lawyers ofevery caliber, with men of force and strongcharacter, men whose business it was to reason,persuade, cajole, and intimidate others to theirway of thinking, and who employed every de-vice, from legitimate argument to brutal ter-rorizing, to accomplish their ends. The mostcapable layman is no match for the trainedattorney in an argument, and a man who is fami-liar with the law can often silence and overawean intellectual superior who is not armed withsimilar knowledge. Every lawyer of experiencehas seen business men of courage and convictionhesitate, va

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