True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 134
d successful lawyer. What is betterstill, he was a good and honest one. He never would takea case he did not believe in, and once when a man came to ABRAHAM LINCOLN 135 engage him to help get some money from a poor widow, Lin-coln refused, and gave the man such a scolding that the mandid not try it… … LINCOLN ON THE FLAT BOAT. another famous man, namedDouglas, looked at thingsdifferently, and they hadlong public talks or discus-sions about politics andslavery. These discussionswere held where all thepeople could hear them, in big halls or out of doors, and crowdsof people went to listen to these…
