T is said that Lincoln's fir lows. His friends thought candidate for the Legislatur into nomination. He came the woodlands to a country to meet his opponent. A town he passed the house nist dwelt. He saw rising spire of iron, and said, "W said his friend, "that is a he explained the use of the Lincoln had never before dage to a dwelling, and h good deal until his time o man against whom he was to occupy the platform, a fellow-citizens by saying would not throw him ov known man, whose life th with whom they were n had come up here from the unexplored tracts of the wilderness. Mr. Lincoln arose and said, "Friends, you don't know very much about me. I haven't had all the advantages that some of you have had; but, if you did know everything about me that you might know, you would be sure that there was nothing in my character that made it necessary to put on my house a lightning-rod to save me from the just vengeance of Almighty God." On another occasion, when Mr. Lincoln was going to a political convention, one of his rivals, a liveryman, provided him with a slow horse, hoping that he would not reach his destination in time. Mr. Lincoln got there, however, and when he returned with the horse he said, "You keep this horse for funerals, don't you?" "Oh no," replied the liveryman. "Well, I'm glad of that, for if you did you'd never get a corpse to the grave in time for the Resurrection." When he went to the Legislature in 1854, after an absence of twelve years from that body, he got the indorsement of the Whigs and the KnowNothings, and the latter sent a committee to him to acquaint him of their action. He rejected their support in the following whimsical fashion: |