“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.”
Old John Bull got himself into a precious fine scrape when he went so far as to “play double” with the North, as well as the South, during the great American Civil War. In its issue of November 14th, 1863, London “Punch” printed a rather clever cartoon illustrating the predicament Bull had created for himself. John is being lectured by Mrs. North and Mrs. South—both good talkers and eminently able to hold their own in either social conversation, parliamentary debate or political argument—but he bears it with the best grace possible. This is the way the text underneath the picture runs: