Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 1 (of 2)

part in the committee work. His judgment was very much deferred to in

such matters. He was one of the shrewdest politicians of the State. Nobody had had more experience in that way, nobody knew better than he what was passing in the minds of the people. Nobody knew better how to turn things to advantage politically, and nobody was readier to take such advantage, provided it did not ...