Note ii-21 — Chapter II · TRUTH IN LAW
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It should, perhaps, be noted that in refusing Matteson’s case Lincoln turned his back on one of his own influential clients, whom he had represented in the Supreme Court but a short time before this happened. See the appeal of Constant vs. Matteson et al., argued at the January term of 1859, in the Second Grand Division. (Illinois Reports, xxii, 546-62.)