Daoiel W. Voorheos, the "tall syca
more of the Wabash,” who was as en
tirely opposed to Abraham Lincoln as
could well be in his political cause, hits
giveiiM n correspondent of the Kansas
City Times some of the best remin
iscences of the great president that
have been printed. He said: Lincoln
was one of the first men 1 I knew after
I began to practice law. At that time
lawyers traveled a circuit. 1 was then
as now in Indiana, while Lincoln was
in Illinois, but our respective circuits,
going to the state line in each instance,
joined; and our business frequently took
us into each other’s baliwicks. Lincoln
was ■very kind to and' considerate of
me —r was green, untried, and a much
younger man than he—ami f can recall
I many a favor he did me.
He was a strong lawyer and singu
larly successful. Asa, politician I
never met his equal. He was shrewd,
| indomitable, enterprising; and with a
1 courage which never flinched. L look
j on him as the best and most sagacious
I politician in a high, big way who ever
set foot in the White- House. What
, ,ve call “big politicians” are, general
ly speaking, a dwarfed and mindless
I generation compared to Abe Lincoln.
He gave you an impression of great
! ness- every moment. Me never did and
ly nature couldn’t conceive of doing
; a mean little thing. I saw him as a
j Lawyer, and 1 was in congress while
i lie was in the white house. 1 knew him
I intimately and under varying condi
tions. I have seen him surrounded by
a state of affairs which would have
overborne any other man I ever met.
