He illustrated his speech with a number of anecdotes, and kept the council in a roar of laughter.

His good humor prevailed, and the exorbitant tax was taken off.

This young lawyer was very popular in Springfield, and was honored and beloved by all who knew him; and after the time of which I write he held rather an important position in the Government of the United States.

He now lies buried in Springfield, under a monument commemorating his greatness and his virtues,--and his name was Abraham Lincoln." Judge Gillespie tells a good story, to the effect that Lincoln and General U.P.Linder were once defending a man who was being tried on a criminal charge before Judge David Davis, who said at dinner-time that the case must be disposed of that night.

Lincoln suggested that the best thing they could do would be to run Benedict, the prosecuting attorney, as far into the night as possible, in hopes that he might, in his rage, commit some indiscretion that would help their case.