<h3>THIS CLINCHES IT.</h3>
<p>A party accompanying the President to the ground to see experiments
with new ordnance in the Navy Yard, in 1862, were diverted by his
taking up a ship-carpenter's ax from its nick in a spar, and holding
it out by the end of the handle; a feat that none of the group could
imitate.</p>
<p>He said that he had enough of the Dahlgreens, Columbiads, and Raphael
repeaters--and that this was an American institution, which, "I guess,
I understand better than all other weapons!"
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