Peter Cartwright, the famous and eccentric old Methodist preacher, who
used to ride a church circuit, as Mr. Lincoln and others did the court
circuit, did not like Lincoln very well, probably because Mr. Lincoln
was not a member of his flock, and once defeated the preacher for
Congress. This was Cartwright’s description of Lincoln: “This Lincoln is
a man six feet four inches tall, but so angular that if you should
drop a plummet from the center of his head it would cut him three times
before it touched his feet.”