Who Said This?

[Rob Wick]

I'm sure this is wrong, but how about Adam Gurowski?

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Rob

[RJNorton]

Nope, not Adam Gurowski.

[RJNorton]

Hint #1: He met with Lincoln in the White House.

[Anita]

Frederick Douglass?

[AussieMick]

Henry Ward Beecher?

[RJNorton]

Kudos, Anita. Indeed it was Frederick Douglass. Later that day he went to the White House, and he had difficulties entering until Abraham Lincoln came upon the scene.

I came across the quote in Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Achorn.

[RJNorton]

No googling please.

Who said the following about Abraham Lincoln?

"He'll never come to much,' fur I'll tell you he wuz the puniest, cryin'est little youngster I ever saw."

[Anita]

Dennis Hanks?

[RJNorton]

Right, Anita!

In an 1886 interview with Jesse W. Weik, Dennis Hanks said:

"They told me the Lincolns had a baby at thur house, and so I jest run all the way down that. I guess I was on hand purty early, fur I rickolect when I held the little feller in my arms his mother said, 'Be keerful with him, Dennis, fur you air the fust boy he's ever seen.' I sort o' swung him back and forth; a little to peart, I reckon, fur with the talkin' and the shakin' he soon begun to cry and then I handed him over to my Aunt Polly who was standin' close by. 'Aunt,' sez I, 'take him; he'll never come to much,' fur I'll tell you he wuz the puniest, cryin'est little youngster I ever saw."

[RJNorton]

No googling, please.

What is the name of the person who noted this?

"I must say, and I am proud to say, that I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and cordiality than were shown me by that great and good man, Abraham Lincoln, by the grace of God president for four years more."

[Rob Wick]

Elizabeth Keckley?

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Rob

[RJNorton]

Nope, it was not Elizabeth Keckley.

[Gene C]

Frederick Douglas ?

[RJNorton]

Nope, not Douglass.

[RJNorton]

Hint #1: The correct answer is female.