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Yarns and Stories, by Alexander K. McClure 252military stationed in the town had him arrested as a rebel spy, and, after amilitary trial he was condemned to be hanged.President Lincoln was seen by one of his friends from Kentucky, whoexplained his errand and asked for mercy. "Oh, yes, I understand; some onehas been crying, and worked upon your feelings, and you have come hereto work on mine."His friend then went more into detail, and assured him of his belief in thetruth of the story. After some deliberation, Mr. Lincoln, evidently scarcelymore than half convinced, but still preferring to err on the side of mercy,replied:"If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt thisone; but after he is once dead we cannot bring him back, no matter howsorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned."And a reprieve was given on the spot.COULDN'T LOCATE HIS BIRTHPLACE.While the celebrated artist, Hicks, was engaged in painting Mr. Lincoln'sportrait, just after the former's first nomination for the Presidency, he askedthe great statesman if he could point out the precise spot where he wasborn.Lincoln thought the matter over for a day or two, and then gave the artistthe following memorandum:"Springfield, Ill., June 14, 1860"I was born February 12, 1809, in then Hardin county, Kentucky, at a pointwithin the now county of Larue, a mile or a mile and a half from whereRodgen's mill now is. My parents being dead, and my own memory notserving, I know no means of identifying the precise locality. It was onNolen Creek.
Yarns and Stories, by Alexander K. McClure 253"A. LINCOLN.""SAMBO" WAS "AFEARED."In his message to Congress in December, 1864, just after his re-election,President Lincoln, in his message of December 6th, let himself out, inplain, unmistakable terms, to the effect that the freedmen should never beplaced in bondage again. "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" ofDecember 24th, 1864, printed the cartoon we herewith reproduce, the textunderneath running in this way:UNCLE ABE: "Sambo, you are not handsome, any more than myself, butas to sending you back to your old master, I'm not the man to do it--and,what's more, I won't." (Vice President's message.)Congress, at the previous sitting, had neglected to pass the resolution forthe Constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery, but, on the 31st ofJanuary, 1865, the resolution was finally adopted, and the United StatesConstitution soon had the new feature as one of its clauses, the necessarynumber of State Legislatures approving it. President Lincoln regarded thepassage of this resolution by Congress as most important, as theamendment, in his mind, covered whatever defects a rigid construction ofthe Constitution might find in his Emancipation Proclamation.After the latter was issued, negroes were allowed to enlist in the Army, andthey fought well and bravely. After the War, in the reorganization of theRegular Army, four regiments of colored men were provided for--the Ninthand Tenth Cavalry and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry. In thecartoon, Sambo has evidently been asking "Uncle Abe" as to the probabilityor possibility of his being again enslaved.WHEN MONEY MIGHT BE USED.Some Lincoln enthusiast in Kansas, with much more pretensions thanpower, wrote him in March, 1860 proposing to furnish a Lincoln delegationfrom that State to the Chicago Convention, and suggesting that Lincoln
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