Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1883 — Grant on Lincoln. [ARTICLE]

Grant on Lincoln.

After my coming to the East I saw a great deal of him. He seemed to love to spend his time with the Army of the Potomac, and was always at my headquarters when possible, and I never heard him talk seriously about any- ' thing that he did not illustrate the strong point he wanted to make by an anecdote, always appropriate, always clear, always such that might be repeated here or in any society. It is my firm conviction many of the anecdotes attributed to Mr. Lincoln were never utterediby him. All that I ever heard were -illustrative of the point he wanted to make clear, and I am told that this was/his course at the bar as a lawyer. When he wanted to make a strong point he illustrated it by an anecdote. " Inexhaustible good nature is the most precious gift of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather,