Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1890 — Lincola's Courage. [ARTICLE]

Lincola's Courage.

If you will allow mo to diverge a little here, let mo say'of Lincoln that lie had a little of Andrew Jackson in him, considerable of it. He was a western man. He felt that whon ho had anything to say ho would say it, and after there had been a great deal of diplomacy about the escape of the "Alabama,” which preyed upon our commerce, and when diplomatic,notes used up a groat deal of nice paper and a great deal ot good ink, tmt lio coiisttfcr erable brains of the writers (laughter) had been expended upon the question, aud when Mr. Adams notiiied Mr. Lincoln that perhaps another "Alabama” might escape, Mr. Lincoln took up a card about the size of an ordinary visiting card, and wrote on that card* ‘•Teil Palmerston that another 'Alabama 1 mesas war.” No "Alabama” escaped.— Men Butler's Address.