Lincoln-lore: Lincoln in the Popular Mind
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Lincoln in the Popular Mind Ray Broadus Browne. The Niggers and the Small Pox I dropped in upon Mr. Lincoln and found him busily counting greenbacks. " This, sir," said he, "is something out of my usual line; but a President of the United States has a multiplicity of duties not specified in the Constitution or acts of Congress. This is one of them. This money belongs to a poor negro who is a porter in one of the Departments (the Treasury), and who is at present very bad with the small ...