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ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Famous, Funny and Witty Anecdotes. Volume 2. The Great Story Telling President, whose Emancipation Proclamation freed more than four million slaves, was a keen politician, profound statesman, shrewd diplomatist, a thorough judge of men and possessed of an intuitive knowledge of affairs. He was the first Chief Executive to die at the hands of an assassin. Without school education he rose to power by sheer merit and will-power. Born in a Kentucky log cabin in 1809, his surroundings being squalid, his chances for advancement were apparently hopeless. President Lincoln died April 15th, 1865, having been shot by J. Wilkes Booth the night before. LAST ACTS OF MERCY During the afternoon preceding his assassination the President signed a pardon for a soldier sentenced to be shot for desertion, remarking as he did so, Well, I think the boy can do us more good above ground than under ground. He also approved an application for the discharge, on taking the oath of allegiance, of a rebel prisoner, in whose petition he wrote, Let it be done. This act of mercy was his last official order.

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