Presidential nominations and elections; a history of American conventions, national campaigns, inaugurations and campaign caricature, with numerous illustrations (1916)
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, 1847-1928 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 260
the Senate with a quick, large step, as though heproposed to storm the Capitol, was his double pairof spectacles. He habitually wore two pairs, onefor reading and the other for seeing at a distance,the pair not in use being placed across the top ofhis head. On this occasion, says the eye-witness,… … The alarm. On Thursday night, after he had retired, :Mr. Lincoln was aroused and informedthat a stranger desired to see him on a matter of life and death. ... ,\conversation elicited the fact that an organized body of men had determinedthat !Mr. Lincoln should never leave the city of Baltimore…
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