He spoke of Mr.Lincoln, and said, 'He's not afraid of an unpopular case.
When I go for a lawyer to defend an arrested fugitive slave, other lawyers will refuse me.

But if Mr.Lincoln is at home he will always take my case.'" An old woman of seventy-five years, the widow of a revolutionary pensioner, came tottering into his law office one day, and told him that a certain pension agent had charged her the exorbitant fee of two hundred dollars for collecting her pension.

Lincoln was satisfied by her representations that she had been swindled, and finding that she was not a resident of the town, and that she was poor, gave her money, and set about the work of procuring restitution.

He immediately entered suit against the agent to recover a portion of his ill-gotten money.

This suit was one of the most remarkable that Lincoln ever conducted.