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...Strecker as a Reddish bug under the national microscope was further emphasized when, to defend him before the Supreme Court, up rose Lawyer Whitney North Seymour of the eminent Manhattan firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Seymour, a Republican libertarian, won freedom in 1937 for Red Angelo Herndon from Georgia's 71-year-old insurrection law. For Joe Strecker he argued that his case paralleled Herndon's, and that in view of the Communist Party's disclaimers, its members constitute no immediate menace such as the 1918-20 deportation law had in mind; and even if they...
...HIDDEN LINCOLN: From the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon- Edited by Emanuel Hertz-Viking...
...Herndon himself was well-read, a student of Darwin and Feuerbach, an admirer of Whitman, a man of the world in his understanding of men. He could turn out gnarled sentences as strong as Whitman's: "The great, keen, shrewd, boring, patient, philosophic, critical and remorselessly searching world will find out all things, and bring them to light," he wrote. "I know Lincoln better than I know myself. He was so good and so odd a man, how in the hell could I help study...
...Herndon was also a provincial lawyer, cranky and crude, unable to develop his ideas systematically. Consequently when he came to write his own biography in 1888, he leaned on a young collaborator named Jesse Weik to put it into publishable shape. The book contained enough of Herndon's insight and first-hand knowledge to make it a masterly record, but Weik picked and chose over Herndon's materials as he saw fit; the publishers revised the manuscript, and 70-year-old Herndon got only $300 for his share of the work and for his collection of Lincoln documents...
...papers, in Weik's possession, were locked up. When the late Senator Beveridge wrote his life of Lincoln, he drew on them, paid a glowing tribute to Herndon, but advised Weik to refuse permission to other biographers. Weik took his advice so literally that for 30 years students could not get access to the 8,000 pages of material. Now in the Huntington Library in California, it has been drawn on by Emanuel Hertz, author of Abraham Lincoln-A New Portrait, in editing The Hidden Lincoln. A belated testimonial to Herndon's integrity, The Hidden Lincoln...