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A REALLY GREAT GENERAL.
"Do you know General A--?" queried the President one day to a friend who
had "dropped in" at the White House.
"Certainly; but you are not wasting any time thinking about him, are
you?" was the rejoinder.
"You wrong him," responded the President, "he is a really great man, a
philosopher."
"How do you make that out? He isn't worth the powder and ball necessary
to kill him so I have heard military men say," the friend remarked.
"He is a mighty thinker," the President returned, "because he has
mastered that ancient and wise admonition, 'Know thyself;' he has formed
an intimate acquaintance with himself, knows as well for what he is
fitted and unfitted as any man living. Without doubt he is a remarkable
man. This War has not produced another like him."
"How is it you are so highly pleased with General A---- all at once?"
"For the reason," replied Mr. Lincoln, with a merry twinkle of the
eye, "greatly to my relief, and to the interests of the country, he has
resigned. The country should express its gratitude in some substantial
way."
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Stories and Anecdotes About the Life of Abraham Lincoln
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