Show PUT GRANT AT disadvantage lincoln Lincol ns little story probably mere effective Effect lv than any long argument could have been 0 one of t the h e latest stories of lincoln nes ogia col n Is alten e 0 here the president was visiting grant in his Vir virgiaes gials camp and the goti general eral was C of the rent e ot of the washington bureaucrats the only use I 1 have for the war department he said mid finally is to furnish me soldiers and supplies but the department interfere with me I 1 am doing the count rys work and be hampered thit that me said the president meditatively that reminds me of a nan man I 1 knew out in sangamon county illinois nil nol ile he was a deacon and had the longwinded long winded exhortation habit in fam fact he had it so bad that people began to stay away from meeting one day the preacher met him say deacon he be said 1 I dont want to curtail your religious fervor but you must shorten up your exhortations youre killing off on tho the membership of the church can cant t help it said the deacon im doing the lords work and I 1 be hampered grant laughed and temporarily dropped the subject |