NO CAUSE FOR PRIDE.
A member of Congress from Ohio came into Mr. Lincoln’s presence in a state of unutterable intoxication, and sinking into a chair, exclaimed in tones that welled up fuzzy through the gallon or more of whiskey that he contained, “Oh, ‘why should (hic) the spirit of mortal be proud?’”
“My dear sir,” said the President, regarding him closely, “I see no reason whatever.”
THE STORY OF LINCOLN’S LIFE
When Abraham Lincoln once was asked to tell the story of his life, he replied:
“It is contained in one line of Gray’s ‘Elegy in a Country Churchyard’: