When his grateful and delighted auditors pressed this on him he had one reply: “Thank you, I never drink it.”
NOT TO “OPEN SHOP” THERE.
President Lincoln was passing down Pennsylvania avenue in Washington one day, when a man came running after him, hailed him, and thrust a bundle of papers in his hands.
It angered him not a little, and he pitched the papers back, saying, “I’m not going to open shop here.”
WE HAVE LIBERTY OF ALL KINDS.
Lincoln delivered a remarkable speech at Springfield, Illinois, when but twenty-eight years of age, upon the liberty possessed by the people of the United States.
In part, he said:
“In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American people, find our account running under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era.