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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
be a mutiny in the army. No! We must wait until every other means has been exhausted. This thunderbolt will keep. I replied by telling a story, as I didn't consider that the President of the United States could claim any special monopoly in that line— That reminds me, Mr. Lincoln, of a neighbor of ours in Connecticut, to whom, one fall, we gave some apples, with directions how to preserve them. They were to be laid down in a barrel of dry sand, headed up, and not opened till the 4th of July, the next year. On that morning he paid us a visit, and announced that he had opened his apples. Well, did they keep? Yes, said he, they kept: but they were all rotten! Mr. Lincoln, who was kind enough to laugh at other people's jokes as heartily as he expected everybody to laugh at his own, took it in good part, and replied: The powder in this bombshell will keep dry: and when the fuse is lit, I intend to have them touch it off themselves. While Mr. Sumner was disposed to re
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., XIII. (search)
be a mutiny in the army. No! We must wait until every other means has been exhausted. This thunderbolt will keep. I replied by telling a story, as I didn't consider that the President of the United States could claim any special monopoly in that line— That reminds me, Mr. Lincoln, of a neighbor of ours in Connecticut, to whom, one fall, we gave some apples, with directions how to preserve them. They were to be laid down in a barrel of dry sand, headed up, and not opened till the 4th of July, the next year. On that morning he paid us a visit, and announced that he had opened his apples. Well, did they keep? Yes, said he, they kept: but they were all rotten! Mr. Lincoln, who was kind enough to laugh at other people's jokes as heartily as he expected everybody to laugh at his own, took it in good part, and replied: The powder in this bombshell will keep dry: and when the fuse is lit, I intend to have them touch it off themselves. While Mr. Sumner was disposed to re