The next day there was speaking at Berlin.

He went from my house with Dr.
Barnett, who had asked me who this man Lincoln was.

I told him he was a candidate for the Legislature.

He laughed and said, 'Can't the party raise better material than that ?' I said, 'Go to-morrow and hear him before you pass judgment.' When he came back I said, 'Doctor, what have you to say now ?' 'Why, sir,' he said, 'he is a perfect _take-in_.

He knows more than all the rest of them put together.'" The result of the election was that Lincoln was chosen to represent the Sangamon district.