who boasted that he never had a death in his hotel, for whenever
a guest was dying in his house he carried him out to die in the gutter."

PAINTED HIS PRINCIPLES.

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."

DIGNIFYING THE STATUTE.

Lincoln was married--he balked at the first date set for the ceremony
and did not show up at all--November 4, 1842, under most happy auspices.
The officiating clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Dresser, used the Episcopal
church service for marriage. Lincoln placed the ring upon the bride's
finger, and said, "With this ring I now thee wed, and with all my
worldly goods I thee endow."

Judge Thomas C. Browne, who was present, exclaimed, "Good gracious,
Lincoln! the statute fixes all that!"

"Oh, well," drawled Lincoln, "I just thought I'd add a little dignity to
the statute."

LINCOLN CAMPAIGN MOTTOES.

The joint debates between Lincoln and Douglas were attended by crowds
of people, and the arrival of both at the places of speaking were in the
nature of a triumphal procession. In these processions there were many
banners bearing catch-phrases and mottoes expressing the sentiment of the
people on the candidates and the issues.

The following were some of the mottoes on the Lincoln banners:

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|Westward the star of empire takes its way; |
|The girls link on to Lincoln, their mothers were for Clay.|
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|Abe, the Giant-Killer.|
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