One day when Mr. Bates was remonstrating with Mr. Lincoln
against the appointment of some indifferent lawyer to a place of judicial
importance, the President interposed with, “Come, now, Bates, he’s not half so
bad as you think. Besides that, I must
tell you, he did me a good turn long ago.
When I took to the law, I was going to court one morning, with some ten
or twelve miles of bad road before me, and I had no horse. The Judge overtook me in his wagon. ‘Hello, Lincoln, are you not going to the
court house? Come in, and I’ll give you a seat.’ Well, I got in, and the Judge went on reading
his papers. Presently the wagon struck a
stump on one side of the road; then it hopped off to the other I looked out, and I saw the driver was
jerking from side to side in his seat; so, says I, ‘Judge, I think your
coachman has been taking a little drop too much this morning.’ ‘Well, I declare, Lincoln,’ said he, ‘I
should not much wonder if you are right, for he has nearly upset me half a
dozen times since starting.’ So putting
his head out of the window, he shouted, ‘Why, you infernal scoundrel, you are
drunk!’ Upon which pulling up his horses
and turning round with great gravity, the coachman said, ‘By gorra! That’s the
first rightful decision you have given for the last twelvemonth.”
SOURCE: New York Daily
Herald, New York, New York, Friday, February 19, 1864, p. 5, and copied
from the New York Evening Post, New
York, New York, Wednesday, February 17, 1864.
2 comments:
bates is so interesting...if its same bates..The Bates I read about hated slavery..
as did thousands of othets...because he hated blacks. Was disappointed Lincoln did not favor FORCED deprortation
Ha you seen anything like that?
Not uncommon at all.
Cont
Seems nearly everyone throwing around Lincoln as for colonization dont much care that Lincoln, like Frederick Douglass, was for VOLUNTARILY...WITH HELP leaving US.
In fact Lincoln sent US navy ship during the war to South America...not sure which country...to RESCUE a group of ex slaves there. By the time they arrived, it seems it was too late.
But here is another thing...hope this is not too long..
We can...and often, scholars and fools alike...quote Lincoln to anything we want. There is always a quote.
A perfect example of just not knowing...or perhap intentional deception...is Lincolns stand on colonization, in ADDITION to never explaning Licoln was for VOLUNTARILY leaving...but its even worse
I Peoria 1854 speech...extremely important time
Lincoln said essentially slave owners deserve contempt kicking and death
Read context...know what went on the last 6 months would help. But he in no way meant anyone should kick slave owners to death.
No on left downtown Peoria confused...because they heard the full speech
In the full speech, we have well meaning folks...including scholars...who claim Lincoln was for forced colonization
Wrong. A few sentences further...Licoln made it clear colonization would take all the ships on earth...something to that effect, and was manifestly cruel and unworkable.
Yet see how Stephen A Douglas used such speeches to get crowds to yell DOWN WITH NI**ers at a debate.
If we fail to know these basics ..we will never get the Civil War..or Slavery...or Lincoln right
See Trashinglincoln.blogspot.com
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