Lincoln began: "Cameron, the people about me are telling me that it is my patriotic duty to become a candidate for a second term, that I am the only man who can save my country, and so on; and do you know I'm just beginning to be fool enough to believe them a little.

What do you say, and how could it be managed ?" "Well, Mr.President, twenty-eight years ago President Jackson sent for me as you have now done and told me just the same story.

His letter reached me in New Orleans and I traveled ten days to reach Washington.

I told President Jackson I thought the best plan would be to have the Legislature of one of the States pass resolutions insisting that the pilot should not desert the ship during these stormy times, and so forth.

If one State did this I thought others would follow.