Lincoln Discussion Symposium

Jim and Roger- both answers are wrong, but Jim is close to how Lamon felt about this man.

Hint # 1 - He was present at the Petersen House when Lincoln died.

My next guess:

Another miss, my friend.......

Last guess before I leave for the morning constitutional:

Tommy Lee Jones and Thaddeus Stevens are both incorrect answers.

Hint # 1.5 - This man was given a healthy dose of what for by Preston Brooks at one time.

I just realized I posted the wrong picture - one FINAL guess!

Charles Sumner
Tom

Tom and Roger posted at the same time, but Roger squeaked in first. You're both correct; it was Charles Sumner.

In what may be the nation's first recorded round of "Stump the Yankee", after a fiery two day speech in which he insulted several Southerners, Sumner was beaten with a cane by Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina. He was badly injured and took years to recover. Brooks resigned and returned to S.C where banquets were held in his honor and he received new canes from all over the South. One was engraved "Good Job". Whether or not this influenced Lamon's opinion of him is unknown, but that's how he put it to Lincoln.

You both win free tickets to Six Flags Over South Carolina.

When Abe was young he seemed to have crushes on lots of girls. But then, in the years before he met Ann Rutledge, he went through a period where girls were less important to him.

One person said that Abe was so busy studying, "he didn't take much truck with the girls."

Who said that about Abe?

Dennis Hanks?

Excellent (and very logical) guess, Joe, but it wasn't Dennis Hanks.

Hint #1: Lincoln once wrote the following to this person:

"I doubt whether since I saw you, you have done a good whole day’s work, in any one day. You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it. This habit of uselessly wasting time, is the whole difficulty; and it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children, that you should break this habit."

It was a cousin or nephew of his, I can't recall the name.

I'll say a step brother who was begging money.

Dennis Hanks

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Oops--then was it Johnston?

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This is confusing--these threads run together--I am going back to my original response: Dennis Hanks.