Sham S. Misri
Abraham Lincoln was the president of
USA. Lincoln delighted to advocate the cases of those whom he knew
to be wronged, but he would not defend the cause of the guilty. If he
discovered in the course of a trial that he was on the wrong side, he lost all
interest, and ceased to make any exertion.
Once, while
engaged in a prosecution, he discovered that his client's cause was not a good
one, and he refused to make the plea. His associate, who was less scrupulous,
made the plea and obtained a decision in their favor. The fee was nine hundred
dollars, half of which was tendered to Mr. Lincoln, but he refused to accept a
single cent of it.
His honesty was
strongly illustrated by the way he kept his accounts with his law-partner. When
he had taken a fee in the latter's absence, he put one half of it into his own
pocket, and laid the other half carefully away, labeling it "Billy,"
the name by which he familiarly addressed his partner. When asked why he did
not make a record of the amount and, for the time being, use the whole, Mr.
Lincoln answered: "Because I promised my mother never to use money
belonging to another person."
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