Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — PORTRAIT OF LINCOLN AS A RAIL-SPLITTER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PORTRAIT OF LINCOLN AS A RAIL-SPLITTER.

The portrait of Abraham Lincoln given herewith has a State reputation in In-, di&na. It is called the “Justice” picture, from the name of Its owner, James M. Justice. Mr. Justice died at his home in Logansport, Ind., in 1889, and the portrait was left by will to his daughters, Mrs. A. C. Patterson and Miss Maibelle Justice, who now reside in Chicago. Mr. Justice's death was sudden and he left no written record of the history of the picture. Its present owners say it was painted in 1860 and was carried as a banner through the campaign of that year, it is about oxlo feet, and the figure of Lincoln is a little larger than life siuL It was attached to a pole and not stretched. The name of the artist is supposed to be

(jnauibers, and he is said to have been Lincoln’s personal friend. James M. Justice first saw it during the war, when it was carried by a regiment of Indiana volunteers ip which he had enlisted. It was twice captured and recaptured. It was captured a third time, and Mr. Justice lost track of it for several years. He was determined to get it, however, and finally found it after the war in an old warehouse in Georgia among the effects of a man who had been killed in battle. Mr. Justice restored if, -1 had it framed, and gave it the place of honor in his law office in Monticello. Ind. Later he moved to Logausport, Ind., where the picture remained until recently. It has been in the Justice family for twenty-six years.