Proceedings At The Twenty Seventh Annual Lincoln Dinner Of The Republican Club Of The City Of New York PDF Download

Excerpt from Proceedings at the Twentieth Annual Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York: Held at the Waldorf-Astoria Celebrating the Ninety-Seventh Anniversary of the Birthday of Abraham Lincoln, Monday, February 12, 1906 He came down to camp just after he had been renominated to the Presidency. We were talking about how the Electoral Col lege was composed, and he said: Of all our colleges, the Elec toral College is the only one where they choose their own masters. And then, in speaking to General Butler about the historical fact that every place General Grant had ever taken had been held, never yielded up, Mr. Lincoln said: When General Grant once getse possessed of a place he seems to hang on to it as if he had inherited it. (laughter and applause.) There was an officer cleaning his sword at the campfire. Mr. Lincoln came up, looked at it, took it in his hand, and said: That is a formidable weapon, but it don't look _half as dangerous to me as once did a Kentucky bowie knife. One night I passed through the outskirts of Louisville when suddenly a man sprang from a dark alley and drew out a bowie knife. It looked three times as long as that sword, though I don't suppose it really was. He ourished it in front of me. It glistened in the moonlight, and for several minutes he seemed to try to see how near he could come to cutting off my nose without quite doing it. Finally he said: 'can you lend me five dollars on that?' I never reach-ed in my pocket for money as quick in the whole course of my life, and, handing him a bill, said: 'there's ten dollars, neighbor. Now put up your scythe.' (laughter.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."