122 POLITICAL LIFE-IV 



Years afterward, noticing in the rooms of his son, Mr. 

 Robert Lincoln, our minister at London, a portrait of 

 his father, and seeing that it had the same melancholy 

 look noticeable in all President Lincoln s portraits, I 

 alluded to this change in his father s features, and asked 

 if any artist had ever caught the happier expression. 

 Mr. Eobert Lincoln answered that, so far as he knew, no 

 portrait of his father in this better mood had ever been 

 taken; that when any attempt was made to photograph 

 him or paint his portrait, he relapsed into his melancholy 

 mood, and that this is what has been transmitted to us by 

 all who have ever attempted to give us his likeness. 



In the campaign which followed this visit to Washing 

 ton I tried to do my duty in speaking through my own 

 and adjacent districts, but there was little need of 

 speeches ; the American people had made up their minds, 

 and they reflected Mr. Lincoln triumphantly. 



