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Ready For "Butcher-day" |
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Leonard Swett told this eminently characteristic story:
"I remember one day being in his room when Lincoln was sitting at his table with a large pile of papers before him, and after a pleasant talk he turned quite abruptly and said: 'Get out of the way, Swett; to-morrow is butcher-day, and I must go through these papers and see if I cannot find some excuse to let these poor fellows off.'
"The pile of papers he had were the records of courts-martial of men who on the following day were to be shot."
(from Lincoln's Yarns and Stories , by Colonel Alexander K. McClure)
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