Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 75
e shrewdness. The WhiteHouse was infested with a numerous horde ofoffice-seekers. From day to day these men crowdedthe corridors leading to the Presidents office.Sometimes they were so numerous as to line thehalls all the way down the stairs. It was not longbefore Tad found out what this assemblage… … .:&; PORTRAIT OF SECRETARY LINCOLN AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN. much longer they proposed to wait. To some hegave good advice, telling them to go home andchop wood for a living. Others he tried to dis-miss by volunteering to speak to his father in theirbehalf, if the)- would promise not to come…
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