Encounters
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Logan may have influenced Lincoln’s approach to jury trials. Joseph Wallace found it “entertaining and instructive” to watch Logan argue a case to a jury: “Resting one foot on a chair, he commences with a few commonplace remarks uttered in a clear conversational tone.” Then he “lays hold of the leading facts and strong points of his case, states them with singular perspicuity and force, dwells on them at length, and presents them from every standpoint favorable to his client.” As “he warms to his work,” his “small frame involuntarily assumes a more erect and impressive attitude; his gestures become more rapid; his shrill voice is pitched to a higher key; his gray eyes glow with animation; every muscle is at play, and every energy of his nature aroused, while words, sentences, arguments, illustrations, appeals, flow in torrents from his lips.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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