This is absolutely true. Just paraphrased. Abraham Lincoln told the British Ambassador :
This fellow came walking down this path when he came upon four crying and wailing children and this women beating them with a switch. Apparently her husband had tried to settle her down to show her children mercy, now his face was bleeding from half a dozen switch smacks.
The woman turned to the fellow, “ Do you have an opinion. Do you want some of this? “ He said, “ No Ma’am. I’m just walking by, minding my own business.”
Apparently Lincoln didn’t care what Britain thought about the Civil War. |