Umm, we are talking about a lawyer waxing poetic for the benefit of
jury, right?
Leland Ness
(JD, LLM)
On 2/3/2022 10:51 AM, JEFFREY D SOUTHMAYD wrote:
> Apocryphal at best.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Wed, Feb 2, 2022 8:50 pm
> Subject: Lincoln anecdote?
>
> I received a query from someone not on the list about the veracity of a
> Lincoln story. My correspondent said this anecdote had been used in court
> by an attorney in his closing argument. I've never heard this story.
> Henry Wiencek
>
> *When he was President, he was getting off a ship with his aide, and on
> the dock, a slave was being beaten; being beaten by his master. The aide
> said to the President, "Man, I pity that slave." You know what President
> Lincoln said? "No, don't pity the slave, pity those people that are
> standing by just watching that happen and doing nothing." *
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