Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1878 — An Anecdote of Lincoln. [ARTICLE]

An Anecdote of Lincoln.

While the ceremonies of the second inauguration were in progress, just as Lincoln stepped forward to take the oath of office, the sun, which had been obscured by rain-clouds, burst forth in splendor. In conversation, next day, the President asked, “Did you notice that sunburst ? It made my heart jump.” Later in the month, Miss Anna .Dickinson, in a lecture delivered in the hall of Ae House of Representatives, eloquently alluded to the sunburst as a happy omen. The President sat directly in front of the speaker, and, from the reporter’s gallery, behind her, I had caught his eye ; gdon after he sat down. When Miss Dickinson referred to the sunbeam, he looked up to me involuntarily, and T thought Iris eyes were suffused with moisture. Perhaps they were, but nett day he said, “I wonder if Miss Dickinson saw me wink at you ?” —Noah Brooks' “Reminiscences of Lincoln," in March Scribner.