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Identifier: abrahamlincolv1hern (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln : the true story of a great life
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891 Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930, joint author White, Horace, 1834-1916
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York London : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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He was de-feated, and returned to the law. He was assiduousin study and tireless in search of legal principles.He was industrious and very thrifty, delighted tomake and save money, and died a rich man. Lin-coln had none of Logans qualities. He was any-thing but studious, and had no money sense. Hewas five years younger, and yet his mind and make-up so impressed Logan that he was invited into thepartnership with him. Logans example had a goodeffect on Lincoln, and it stimulated him to unusualendeavors. For the first time he realized the effec-tiveness of order and method in work, but his oldhabits eventually overcame him. He permitted hispartner to do all the studying in the preparation ofcases, while he himself trusted to his general knowl-edge of the law and the inspiration of the surround-ings to overcome the judge or the jury. Loganwas scrupulously exact, and used extraordinary carein the preparation of papers. His words were wellchosen, and his style of composition was stately and
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O U cfl _J THE LIFE OF LINCOLN^ 2$ I formal. This extended even to his letters. ThisLincoln lacked in every particular. I have beforeme a letter written by Lincoln at this time to theproprietors of a wholesale store in Louisville, forwhom suit had been brought, in which, after notify-ing the latter of the sale of certain real estate insatisfaction of their judgment, he adds: As tothe real estate we cannot attend to it. We are notreal estate agents, we are lawyers. We recommendthat you give the charge of it to Mr. Isaac S.Britton, a trustworthy man, and one whom theLord made on purpose for such business/ Hegravely signs the firm name, Logan and Lincoln, tothis unlawyerlike letter and sends it on its way.Logan never would have written such a letter. Hehad too much gravity and austere dignity to permitany such looseness of expression in letters to hisclients or to anyone else. In 1843, Logan and Lincoln both had their eyesset on the race for Congress. Logans claim to thehonor lay in his

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