He could not reason falsely; if he attempted it, he failed.

In politics he would never try to mislead.

At the bar, when he thought he was wrong, he was the weakest lawyer I ever saw." Hon.

David Davis, afterwards Associate Justice U.S.Supreme Court and U.S.Senator, presided over the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Illinois during the remaining years of Lincoln's practice at the bar.

He was united to Lincoln in close bonds of friendship, and year after year travelled with him over the circuit, put up with him at the same hotels, and often occupied the same room with him.