re: #964 jamesfirecat

Here’s how it ended…

“For a while Lincoln’s escape denied the House its quorum, but it didn’t last long. He was returned to the chambers and the House voted to adjourn.”

Now can you tell me why knowing the ending to this story maters Buck?

That is not the way history reports it. I learned it differently in school.

It was to save the Illinois State Bank, Wikipedia has it this way:

Lincoln and several others jumped out of a first story window, but the Speaker counted them as present and “the bank was killed”.

It was a stunt, and it was completely ineffective. It was a desperate act to get his own way, when he didn’t have the support of the house. He didn’t have the votes. The other representatives disagreed with him in such numbers to vote against the bank. And two years later he told people that killing the bank was “better sooner than later”.

SO, the story is completely irrelevant to todays lesson.