Assassination Trivia

[Eva Elisabeth]

(07-02-2015 02:14 PM)Thomas Kearney Wrote:  It's time to play an assassination related edition of What's Wrong With This Picture? Take a look at this picture of the Garrett Farm Mock up in the Ford's Theater Center For Education And Leadership and tell me what is wrong in this picture:

http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.....image.jpg

I took this photo at Ford's:
   
I believe Abraham Lincon never said this (and if I am right I would be a bit disappointed that such a famous institution devoted to educating on "Lincoln history" forwards incorrect information on the matter!)

AFAIK and could find out this was not said BY Abraham Lincoln (and IMO it wouldn't match him either) but TO him on Monday, June 11, 1849.

The original is in "Herndon's Lincoln", p.244, here's the gist as published by Alexander K.McClure:
"Lincoln always took great pleasure in relating this yarn:
Riding at one time in a stage with an old Kentuckian who was returning from Missouri, Lincoln excited the old gentleman's surprise by refusing to accept either of tobacco or French brandy. When they separated that afternoon—the Kentuckian to take another stage bound for Louisville—he shook hands warmly with Lincoln, and said, good-humoredly: 'See here, stranger, you're a clever but strange companion. I may never see you again, and I don't want to offend you, but I want to say this: My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has d——d few virtues. Good-day.'
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2517/2517...k2H_4_0007

Does anyone know if A. Lincoln ever said the quote himself to someone? Using the wording as on display at Ford's?