“Mr. President, this is Mr. S., of the second district of our State,--a most active and earnest friend of yours and the cause. He has, among other things, been good enough to paint, and present to our league rooms, a most beautiful portrait of yourself.” President Lincoln took the gentleman’s hand in his, and shaking it cordially said, with a merry voice, “I presume, sir, in painting your beautiful portrait, you took your idea of me from my principles and not from my person.” DIGNIFYING THE STATUTE. Lincoln was married--he balked at the first date set for the ceremony and did not show up at all--November 4, 1842, under most happy auspices. The officiating clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Dresser, used the Episcopal church service for marriage. Lincoln placed the ring upon the bride’s finger, and said, “With this ring I now thee wed, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.” Judge Thomas C. Browne, who was present, exclaimed, “Good gracious, Lincoln! the statute fixes all that!” “Oh, well,” drawled Lincoln, “I just thought I’d add a little dignity to the statute.” LINCOLN CAMPAIGN MOTTOES. The joint debates between Lincoln and Douglas were attended by crowds of people, and the arrival of both at the places of speaking were in the nature of a triumphal procession. In these processions there were many banners bearing catch-phrases and mottoes expressing the sentiment of the people on the candidates and the issues. The following were some of the mottoes on the Lincoln banners: +----------------------------------------------------------+ |Westward the star of empire takes its way; | |The girls link on to Lincoln, their mothers were for Clay.| +----------------------------------------------------------+ +----------------------+ |Abe, the Giant-Killer.| +----------------------+ +---------------------------------+ |Edgar County for the Tall Sucker.| +---------------------------------+ +----------------------------------+ |Free Territories and Free Men, | | Free Pulpits and Free Preachers,| |Free Press and a Free Pen, | | Free Schools and Free Teachers. | +----------------------------------+ GIVING AWAY THE CASE. Between the first election and inauguration of Mr. Lincoln the disunion sentiment grew rapidly in the South, and President Buchanan’s failure to stop the open acts of secession grieved Mr. Lincoln sorely. Mr. Lincoln had a long talk with his friend, Judge Gillespie, over the state of affairs. One incident of the conversation is thus narrated by the Judge: