I have heard more than one attorney say that it was little use to expect a favorable verdict in any case where Lincoln was opposing counsel, as his simple statements of the facts had more weight with the jury than those of the witnesses.
"As a student (if such a term could be applied to Mr.Lincoln) one who did not know him might have called him indolent.

He would pick up a book and run rapidly over the pages, pausing here and there.

At the end of an hour--never, as I remember, more than two or three hours--he would close the book, stretch himself out on the office lounge, and with hands under his head and eyes shut he would digest the mental food he had just taken.
"In the spring of 1846, war between the United States and Mexico broke out.

Mr.Lincoln was opposed to the war.

He looked upon it as unnecessary and unjust.