Lincoln Story Book, The

<h3>STEEL AND STEAL.</h3> <p>President Lincoln asked a friend, a senator, immediately on his taking office, upon an embarrassed condition of affairs:</p> <p>"Have you seen that prophecy about my administration in the papers? A prophet foretells that my rule will be one of steel! To which the wags retort: 'Well, Buchanan's was one of <i>steal</i>.'"</p> <p>The Georgian slave-holder, late secretary of the treasury, was accused of "diverting" some millions to the South, as that for the war office similarly "diverted" ordnance and munitions to the same quarter; the head of the navy, with what "looked" like collusion, had scattered the war-vessels so as to be long delayed in concentrating. <br/> <br/> <br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />