"The Provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions and they proposed to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon _us_." The next year he stumped Massachusetts for "Zach" Taylor and heard Governor Seward deliver his remarkable speech on Slavery which contained this striking utterance: "Congress has no power to inhibit any duty commanded by God on Mount Sinai or by His Son on the Mount of Olives." On his return home Lincoln confessed that we had soon to deal with that question. I was in his office when Herndon said: "I tell you that slavery must be rooted out." "What makes you think so?" Mr. Lincoln asked. "I feel it in my bones," was Herndon's answer. After that he used to speak with respect of "Bill Herndon's bone philosophy." His term in Congress having ended, he came back to the law in partnership with William H. Herndon--a man of character and sound judgment. Those days Lincoln wore black trousers, coat and stock, a waistcoat of satin and a Wellington high hat. He was wont to carry his papers in his hat. Mary had wrought a great change in his external appearance. They used to call him "a dead square lawyer." I remember that once Herndon had drawn up a fictitious plea founded on a shrewd assumption. Lincoln carefully examined the papers. "Is it founded on fact?" he asked. "No," Herndon answered. Lincoln scratched his head thoughtfully and asked: "Billy, hadn't we better withdraw that plea? You know it's a sham and generally that's another name for a lie. Don't let it go on record. The cursed thing may come staring us in the face long after this suit has been forgotten." On the whole he was not so communicative as he had been in his young manhood. He suffered days of depression when he said little. Often, in good company, be seemed to be thinking of things in no way connected with the talk. Many called him a rather "shut-mouthed man." Herndon used to say that the only thing he had against Lincoln was his habit of coming in mornings and sprawling on the lounge and reading aloud from the newspaper. The people of the town loved him. One day as we were walking along the street together we came upon a girl dressed up and crying in front of her father's door. "What's the matter?" Lincoln asked. "I want to take the train and the wagon hasn't come for my trunk," said she. Lincoln went in and got the trunk and carried it to the station on his back, with people laughing and throwing jokes at him as he strode along. When I think of him his chivalry and kindness come first to mind.