He was the strongest man I ever knew, and has been known to lift a man of his own weight and throw him over a worm fence.

Once in Springfield the Irish voters meditated taking possession of the polls.

News came down the street that they would permit nobody to vote but those of their own party.

Mr.Lincoln seized an axe-handle from a hardware store and went alone to open a way to the ballot-box.

His appearance intimidated them, and we had neither threats nor collisions all that day." An unsuspected side of Lincoln's character was shown, at this period of his life, in the affair with General Shields.