The crowd shouted uproariously.

Lincoln said: 'While he [Colonel Taylor] was making these charges against the Whigs over the country, riding in fine carriages, wearing ruffled shirts, kid gloves, massive gold watch-chains with large gold seals, and flourishing a heavy gold-headed cane, I was a poor boy, hired on a flatboat at eight dollars a month, and had only one pair of breeches to my name, and they were buckskin,--and if you know the nature of buckskin, when wet and dried by the sun it will shrink,--and mine kept shrinking until they left several inches of my legs bare between the tops of my socks and the lower part of my breeches.

Whilst I was growing taller, they were becoming shorter and so much tighter that they left a blue streak around my legs that can be seen to this day.

If you call this aristocracy, I plead guilty to the charge.'" "The Saturday evening preceding the election," says Mr.Lamon, "the candidates were addressing the people in the Court House at Springfield.
Dr.Early, one of the candidates on the Democratic side, made some charge which Mr.N.W.Edwards, one of the candidates on the Whig side, deemed untrue.

Edwards climbed on a table, so as to be seen by Early and by everyone in the house, and at the top of his voice told Early that the charge was false.