Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1884 — Lincoln’s Laconic Reply. [ARTICLE]

Lincoln’s Laconic Reply.

The following anecdote of President Lincoln is related by General Badean: “Sheridan started before daybreak in pursuit of what was left of Lee’s army. He sent word to Grant: ‘lf the thing is pressed. I think that Lee will surrender.’ Grant forwarded the dispatch and an account of the victory to Linooln, at City Point, and the President replied: ‘Let the thing be pressed.’" Three negroes were frozen to death I during a recent cold spell in NatchiI toches County, Louisiana.