t Tennessee and liberate the Union sentiment
there. Finally we must rely on the people growing tired and saying to
their leaders, 'We have had enough of this thing, we will bear it no
longer.'"

Such was President Lincoln's plan for heading off the Rebellion in the
summer of 1861. How it enlarged as the War progressed, from a call for
seventy thousand volunteers to one for five hundred thousand men and
$500,000,000 is a matter of well-known history.

RAN AWAY WHEN VICTORIOUS.

Three or four days after the battle of Bull Run, some gentlemen who had
been on the field called upon the President.

He inquired very minutely regarding all the circumstances of the affair,
and, after listening with the utmost attention, said, with a touch of
humor: "So it is your notion that we whipped the rebels and then ran
away from them!"

WANTED STANTON SPANKED.

Old Dennis Hanks was sent to Washington at one time by persons
interested in securing the release from jail of several men accused of
being copperheads. It was thought Old Dennis might have some influence
with the President.

The latter heard Dennis' story and then said: "I will send for Mr.
Stanton. It is his business."

Secretary Stanton came into the room, stormed up and down, and said the
men ought to be punished more than they were. Mr. Lincoln sat quietly in
his chair and waited for the tempest to subside, and then quietly said
to Stanton he would like to have the papers next day.

When he had gone, Dennis said:

"'Abe,' if I was as big and as ugly as you are, I would take him over my
knee and spank him."

The President replied: "No, Stanton is an able and valuable man for this
Nation, and I am glad to bear his anger for the service he can give the
Nation."

STANTON WAS OUT OF TOWN.

The quaint remark of the President to an applicant, "My dear sir, I have
not much influence with the Administration," was one of Lincoln's little
jokes.

Mr. Stanton, Secretary of War, once replied to an order from the
President to give a colonel a commission in place of the resigning
brigadier:

"I shan't do it, sir! I shan't do it! It isn't the way to do it, sir,
and I shan't do it. I don't propose to argue the question with you,
sir."

A few days after, the friend of the applicant who had presented the
order to Secretary Stanton called upon the President and related his
reception. A look of vexation came over the face of the President, and
he seemed un