Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln

[David Lockmiller]

(10-09-2018 06:45 AM)Gene C Wrote:  written by Francis Bicknell Carpenter and originally published in 1866 as Inner Life of Abrahan Lincoln - Six Months At The White House,.

I possess the 1879 printing of this book by The Riberside Press. One of my favorite stories which I posted previously on May 6, 2018 under the thread titled RE: President Lincoln vignettes in F. B. Carpenter's "Six Months at the White House" (page 102) is as follows:

The morning of the last day of April, [1864], Mr. Wilkeson, the head of the New York "Tribune" bureau of correspondence in Washington at that period, called upon me with his sister-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, well known for her radical views on political and social questions, who wished an introduction to the President. Later in the day, after the accustomed pressure of visitors had subsided, I knocked at the door of the President's study, and asked if I might bring up two or three New York friends. Mr. Lincoln fortunately was alone, and at once accorded the desired permission. Laying aside his papers, as we entered, he turned around in his chair for a leisurely conversation. One of the party took occasion shortly to endorse very decidedly the Amnesty Proclamation, which had been severely censured by many friends of the Administration. This approval appeared to touch Mr. Lincoln deeply. He said, with a great deal of emphasis, and with an expression of countenance I shall never forget, "When a man is sincerely penitent for his misdeeds, and gives satisfactory evidence of the same, he can safely be pardoned, and there is no exception to the rule."

There are so many such good personal stories in this book witnessed by F. B. Carpenter. Indeed, this is one of my very favorite Lincoln books.