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to Leading the Country Janet Kuypers 2/10/19 Let’s link U.S. agriculture, to lawyers, to the U.S. Presidency... Now, back in the early 1800s all farming was done by hand — but Cyrus McCormick saw his father work on a horse-drawn reaper, that could speed crop collection eventually 100-fold. When his father died, he moved to Chicago in 1847, where he and his brother through companies were able to quote-unquote mass- produce reapers for farmers. Now, although others claimed patents at the same time, that was when Cyrus McCormick saw John Henry Manny of Rockford, Illinois was also making a reaper. The Manny Reaper even beat Cyrus McCormick’s version during the Paris Exposition of 1855, forcing McCormick to file a lawsuit against Manny for patent infringement. The trial was first in Chicago and had prominent lawyers on both sides. But Manny’s lawyer team needed a local, so they hired the Illinois lawyer Abraham Lincoln for their group. They were sure he didn’t have the right kind of experience. Manny’s lawyer Edwin M. Stanton even said Lincoln was a “damned log-armed ape,” so although Lincoln was there, he didn’t contribute much of anything at all. And when the trial was moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, the lawyers just went there and didn’t even tell Lincoln. So when Lincoln heard of the move, he thought, ‘wait a minute, I should be there,’ so off he went, and found the trial, but all of the lawyers just ignored him. So all this time, Lincoln watched the trial that he didn’t contribute to, the trial that Manny actually won, and Lincoln thought, ‘hey, I I should really surge with this lawyer thing,’ and after a few years, he... well, you know... became the President of the United States. # That lawyer Stanton ripped on Lincoln back in the day, but after Lincoln became President, he actually chose Stanton as his Secretary of War. Because back in the day, people didn’t automatically choose cronies just like them to serve their own selfish interest to join them, but they often chose people different front them, so they could have a well-rounded view on how to serve this country. Novel idea, isn’t it, to make the effort to work with the opposition so the government actually works. |
