spired?"

"Oh, no," replied the President, "at least, not now. If I were to try to
read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as
well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how the
very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the
end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to
anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten thousand angels swearing I
was right would make no difference."

"MUST GO, AND GO TO STAY."

Ward Hill Lamon was President Lincoln's Cerberus, his watch dog,
guardian, friend, companion and confidant. Some days before Lincoln's
departure for Washington to be inaugurated, he wrote to Lamon at
Bloomington, that he desired to see him at once. He went to Springfield,
and Lincoln said:

"Hill, on the 11th I go to Washington, and I want you to go along with
me. Our friends have already asked me to send you as Consul to Paris.
You know I would cheerfully give you anything for which our friends may
ask or which you may desire, but it looks as if we might have war.

"In that case I want you with me. In fact, I must have you. So get
yourself ready and come along. It will be handy to have you around. If
there is to be a fight, I want you to help me to do my share of it, as
you have done in times past. You must go, and go to stay."

This is Lamon's version of it.

LINCOLN WASN'T BUYING NOMINATIONS.

To a party who wished to be empowered to negotiate reward for promises
of influence in the Chicago Convention, 1860, Mr. Lincoln replied:

"No, gentlemen; I have not asked the nomination, and I will not now buy
it with pledges.

"If I am nominated and elected, I shall not go into the Presidency as
the tool of this man or that man, or as the property of any factor or
clique."

HE ENVIED THE SOLDIER AT THE FRONT.

After some very bad news had come in from the army in the field, Lincoln
remarked to Schuyler Colfax:

"How willingly would I exchange places to-day with the soldier who
sleeps on the ground in the Army of the Potomac!"

DON'T TRUST TOO FAR

In the campaign of 1852, Lincoln, in reply to Douglas' speech, wherein
he spoke of confidence in Providence, replied: "Let us stand by our
candidate (General Scott) as faithfully as he has always stood by our
country, and I much doubt if we do not perceive a slight abatement of
Judge Douglas' confidence in Providence as well as the people. I suspec