In reply to the kindly offer Mr. Lincoln wrote, thanking Mr. Tracy, but at the same time declining to subscribe. He said he recognized that stock in a good National bank would be a good thing to hold, but he did not feel that he ought, as President, profit from a law which had been passed under his administration.
“He seemed to wish to avoid even the appearance of evil,” said Mr. Tracy, in telling of the incident. “And so the act proved both his unvarying probity and his unfailing policy.”
WAR DIDN’T ADMIT OF HOLIDAYS.
Lincoln wrote a letter on October 2d, 1862, in which he observed:
“I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.”
“NEUTRALITY.”
