Mr.Jackson concurred and I went to Harrisburg, and had such a resolution prepared and passed.

Other States followed as I expected and, as you know, he won a second term." "Well," said Lincoln, "could you do that now ?" "No," said I, "I am too near to you, Mr.President; but if you desire I might get a friend to attend to it, I think." "Well," said President Lincoln, "I leave the matter with you." "I sent for Foster here" (who was his companion on the coach and our guest) "and asked him to look up the Jackson resolutions.

We changed them a little to meet new conditions and passed them.

The like result followed as in the case of President Jackson.

Upon my next visit to Washington I went in the evening to the President's public reception.
When I entered the crowded and spacious East Room, being like Lincoln very tall, the President recognized me over the mass of people and holding up both white-gloved hands which looked like two legs of mutton, called out: 'Two more in to-day, Cameron, two more.' That is, two additional States had passed the Jackson-Lincoln resolutions." Apart from the light this incident throws upon political life, it is rather remarkable that the same man should have been called upon by two presidents of the United States, twenty-eight years apart, under exactly similar circumstances and asked for advice, and that, the same expedient being employed, both men became candidates and both secured second terms.