LINCOLN WASN’T BUYING NOMINATIONS.
To a party who wished to be empowered to negotiate reward for promises of influence in the Chicago Convention, 1860, Mr. Lincoln replied:
“No, gentlemen; I have not asked the nomination, and I will not now buy it with pledges.
“If I am nominated and elected, I shall not go into the Presidency as the tool of this man or that man, or as the property of any factor or clique.”
HE ENVIED THE SOLDIER AT THE FRONT.
After some very bad news had come in from the army in the field, Lincoln remarked to Schuyler Colfax:
“How willingly would I exchange places to-day with the soldier who sleeps on the ground in the Army of the Potomac!”