He brought light with him.

He loved his fellow-men with all the strength of his great nature, and those who came in contact with him could not help reciprocating the love." Another old friend describes Lincoln as being at this time "very plain in his costume, as well as rather uncourtly in his address and general appearance.

His clothing was of home Kentucky jean, and the first impression made by his tall, lank figure upon those who saw him was not specially prepossessing.

He had not outgrown his hard backwoods experience, and showed no inclination to disguise or to cast behind him the honest and manly though unpolished characteristics of his earlier days.

Never was a man further removed from all snobbish affectation.