fourteen miles distant from Elwood in Doniphan County.  They drove out to Troy, where Mr. Lincoln made a speech.  From here I think he went on to Lawrence and other places before returning to St. Joseph, but have no account of his movements beyond Troy.  I think it was in the year 1858 and must have been in the summer time, for the party took Mr. Lincoln over the Missouri on a ferry.  It did not make trips oftener than about once in two hours.  When Lincoln came to the bank on the Missouri side the boat had just gone.  There was no waiting-room or benches to sit on and some of the party were inclined to think they were in hard luck.  When Lincoln found out how it was, he said:  ’It’s all right.  We’ll sit right down on the sand and wait for the boat.’  Then they all sat down on the ground and listened to genuine Lincoln stories till the time was up.  My father often spoke with delight of this incident.  I have looked in vain in Lincoln histories for a more definite account of this Kansas trip.  Of the actual fact there can be no doubt.”

Lincoln’s fame, as we have seen, had now extended to the East, where he seems to have been looked upon as a rising man and an interesting figure in national politics.  Invitations to visit the East now began to reach him.  In the following February (1860) he went to Brooklyn, for the purpose of delivering a lecture in Mr. Beecher’s church.  The invitation had given him much pleasure, and he prepared himself thoroughly; indeed, it is said that no effort of his life cost him so much labor as this.  In the Plymouth congregation of Brooklyn there was an association of young men which was successful in getting an annual course of six lectures of the highest order.  This association discerned in Lincoln a man worthy of a place in its course, and invited him to give such a lecture.  Meanwhile, some prominent Republican politicians of New York had heard of him as a possible candidate for the Presidency, and desired him to make a speech in that city in order to determine whether he would be the man to present to the Republican National convention in case Mr. Seward could not be nominated.  Lincoln informed these gentlemen of his Brooklyn engagement, but said he would speak in New York if the Brooklyn club gave its consent.  That club agreed to this arrangement; and thus it was decided that Lincoln’s speech should be delivered in New York City, instead of Brooklyn, as had been first intended.  Mr. R.C.  McCormick, who was a member of the committee in charge of the arrangements, says:  “When Mr. Lincoln came to New York City, there was some confusion in the arrangements.  He had at first been invited to appear in Brooklyn, but upon deliberation his friends thought it best that he should be heard in New York.  Reaching the Astor House on Saturday, February 25, he was surprised to find by announcement in the public prints that he was to speak at the Cooper Institute.  He said he must review his address if it was to be