Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1877 — Anecdote of Eincoln. [ARTICLE]

Anecdote of Eincoln.

A short time before Governor Hen.dricks’sdeparture for Europe, he narrated the following anecdote of President Lincoln to a party of friends: “In one of my trips to Washington, during my term iu the Senate, Judge David McDonald was along. He told me he was an applicant for the position of United States District Court Judge, then vacant, and impressed with his manner and conversation, I became very much interested in his suit. Some days after our arrival in Washington, I met the Judge on the street. He seemed pitifully cast down and said he had failed to see the President himself and had not been able to command the intervention of friends in his behalf. ‘I know Mr. Lincoln very well,’ I said, ‘and I will take you up to see him. I will introduce you and you can present your claims.’ Arrived at the White House and seated in Mr. Lincoln’s presence, I referred briefly to Judge McDonald’s qualifications and the position he desired to fill, leaving him to speak for himself. He had carefully framed his petition, but when he rose and attempted to speak the words faded from his memory and he stood silent and embarrassed. At length his eyes met the kind, sympathetic gaze of the President, who sat looking at him, and he exclaimed, ‘Mr. Lincoln, if you can give me this place, you will make an old man very happy.’ The heart of Mr. Lincoln was touched by this childlike appeal, and he gave Judge McDonald the appointment.”

The sea serpent has appeared off JVahant this time. He has a strange weakness for the vicinity of Boston, and usually flops„his tail somewhere in the neighborhood of its empty hotels at this season of the year. With*out the sea serpent and Ben Butler Boston would be dull and dismal indeed.