Abraham Lincoln's Humor by Grafton John;

Author:Grafton, John;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State

HISTORY / United States/Civil War Period (1850-1877)

HISTORY / United States/19th Century
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2020-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

92. Presidential Portrait

The day following the adjournment of the Baltimore Convention, at which President Lincoln was renominated, various political organizations called to pay their respects to the President. While the Philadelphia delegation was being presented, the chairman of that body, in introducing one of the members, said:

“Mr. President, this is Mr. S., of the second district of our State,—a most active and earnest friend of yours and the cause. He has, among other things, been good enough to paint, and present to our league rooms, a most beautiful portrait of yourself.”

President Lincoln took the gentleman’s hand in his, and shaking it cordially said, with a merry voice, “I presume, sir, in painting your beautiful portrait, you took your idea of me from my principles and not from my person.”

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