''Abe'' Lincoln's Yarns and Stories - University of Macau Library

Yarns and Stories, by Alexander K. McClure 148means, so that this country may be made free as the good Lord intended it.'"Said Ficklin in rejoinder: "Lincoln, I remember of reading somewhere inthe same book from which you get your Agrippa story, that Paul, whomyou seem to desire to personate, admonished all servants (slaves) to beobedient to them that are their masters according to the flesh, in fear andtrembling."It would seem that neither our Savior nor Paul saw the iniquity of slaveryas you and your party do. But you must not think that where you fail byargument to convince an old friend like myself and win him over to yourheterodox abolition opinions, you are justified in resorting to violence suchas you practiced on me to-day."Why, I never had such a shaking up in the whole course of my life.Recollect that that good old book that you quote from somewhere says ineffect this: 'Woe be unto him who goeth to Egypt for help, for he shall fall.The holpen shall fall, and they shall all fall together.'"DEAD DOG NO CURE.Lincoln's quarrel with Shields was his last personal encounter. In later yearsit became his duty to give an official reprimand to a young officer who hadbeen court-martialed for a quarrel with one of his associates. The reprimandis probably the gentlest on record:"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can sparetime for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all theconsequences, including the vitiating of his temper and the loss ofself-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equalright; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own."Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for theright. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.""THOROUGH" IS A GOOD WORD.